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> Here are the top ten box office films of 2020 But see, 2020 was an aberration. You have to look at 2019. Sequel, remake, sequel, sequel, comic, sequel, sequ
by ttmb 5y ago
> Here are the top ten box office films of 2020
But see, 2020 was an aberration. You have to look at 2019.
Sequel, remake, sequel, sequel, comic, sequel, sequel/comic, remake, comic, sequel/remake,
Oh. Oh no. Let's keep going for top 20, yeah?
Sequel/remake, ORIGINAL, sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel, video game, ORIGINAL, comic, comic. (from boxofficemojo)
2 in the top 20.
Let's keep going?
ORIGINAL, remake, sequel-ish? sequel, sequel, (US) remake, ORIGINAL, sequel, ORIGINAL, remake, tv-to-film, ORIGINAL, comic, ORIGINAL, sequel, sequel, sequel, ORIGINAL, sequel, sequel, ...
Let's stop there, but don't assume for a second that all the remakes and sequels are top-loaded - they may dominate the top of the chart but they go pretty far down it too.
- Apocryphon 5y agoLooks to be a different source from the OP, but let's go down the chart for 1980 past the top ten: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1980/ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1980/ Kramer vs. Kramer (book) Ordinary People (book) Popeye (comic) The Shining (book) Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (sequel) Caddyshack (original - franchise starter) Friday the 13th (original - franchise starter) Brubaker (book) The Jazz Singer (remake) Flash Gordon (sequel/remake) Bronco Billy (original) Raging Bull (book - biopic) Maybe you should go back a few decades until you can find a time when the top 20 were mostly originals. Would have to be before the Star Wars/Jaws blockbuster era, probably.
- munificent 5y ago> Maybe you should go back a few decades until you can find a time when the top 20 were mostly originals. Even if box office leaders were never mostly originals, there's still a very big difference between 50% and 20%.