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No, there really are more sequels today: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/hollywood-sequels-remakes/ https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/hollywood-sequels-remak

• yamtaddle 4y ago
  Eh, top-20 grossing only and starts in the early 80s. There are lots of remakes and sequels (and some "cinematic universes"!) in the 1900-1950 range—not infrequently, one of the remakes is far better-known or better-regarded now than the original. [EDIT] I've actually looked into this before and if you have better data on it I'd genuinely love to see it—I couldn't find any. [EDIT EDIT] What I was most interested in was seeing whether there was a major change in this in the 60s-80s when director-as-auteur trend took over after the Studio System was broken up—arguably we're kinda trending back toward a Studio System sort of arrangement, so it'd be interesting to see if a ~century-long graph that includes wider-ranging data looks U-shaped.
• muffinman26 4y ago
  There are a lot of movies in the 30s and 40s that a cursory analysis wouldn't notice are remakes, but totally are. For example, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies are all nominally unique characters, but most of them have identical pacing.