Thursday, January 02, 2025

All the Top Movies were Sequels

Hollywood had a good year, and is fully recovered from covid. Here are the top ten movies in 2024, by gross revenue:
10. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
9. Venom: The Last Dance
8. Kung Fu Panda 4
7. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
6. Wicked
5. Dune: Part Two
4. Moana 2
3. Despicable Me 4
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
1. Inside Out 2
They are all sequels. Except for Wicked, which is a remake of a stage play that was a prequel to The Wizard of Oz.

In other words, movies make money by recycling old ideas.

It is only going to get worse. Movies of the future will probably be made by AI, after training on the movies of the past. Everything will be derivative.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Forbidden Planet was based on The Tempest; Star Trek was based on Wagon Train; Star Wars was based on every Western B movie where a young boy beats thrown bully; and Alien was based on the Old Dark House horror/murder movies.
Film makers could do worse than look at some of the original Twilight Zone films. Wasn't Moana based on the Pocahontas story?I
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