No, it's a product of the economics of the system. In 2022, 449 "major" movies were released. Total gross: $7.4 billion. The top ten movies took 3.8 billion o

No, it's a product of the economics of the system. In 2022, 449 "major" movies were released. Total gross: $7.4 billion. The top ten movies took 3.8 billion of that. Numbers 11 through 20 took another 1.2 billion. You will probably have heard of most of the top 100. No movie ranked better than 161 took in a million dollars. The bottom 80, all together, took in about a million. Nobody wants to pay for any of the movies not in the top 100. How do they back a winner? In terms of story: sequels/prequels, licensed content and shared universes. All of the top ten fit into 2 or 3 of those three categories. 26 of the top 50. (If you want something original and available, horror is your best bet. Of the top 20 horror movies in 2022, only 5 were sequels/prequels, licensed or shared.)