This looks actually pretty good.
But how many times must we make the same movies over and over again? Godzilla, looks like there's another Robin Hood coming out, Spiderman reboots every day.
There has to be some original shit out there. I guess from a producers point of view if you are about to spend tens or hundreds of million dollars might as well bank on something you know people already like.
This is an interesting trend, likely because remakes, sequels, prequels, etc, have built in audiences and are for the most part outperforming new movies. At least in terms of blockbusters. It didn't used to be that way.
So few of the top movies are stories or characters that haven't already been featured in movies or TV shows.
This year the top 10 had these 3
Black Panther - does that count, it's a new featured character, but part of the marvel universe.
A Quite Place
Ready Player One
The rest were sequels, prequels, remakes, or prior popular TV shows.
Last year there weren't any in toe top 10.
#13 Cocoa
#14 Dunkirk
#18 The Greatest Shoman
were the only 3 in the top 22 that were new stories.
I think part of the issue is Disney pumps so much money into Marvel and Star Wars and they dominate the box office. So other studios go with known properties with built in audiences too in order to compete.
Just 20 years ago, almost the entire top 20 was new material. The exceptions were (ironically enough) Godzilla at #9 and Lethal Weapon 4 at 11.
There are some great movies out there, it's just harder to find them and they don't have the same box office success. Some recent ones:
Ex Machina, Hidden Figures, The Imitation Game, Intersteller
All of that said, I'm looking forward to seeing Mission Impossible: Fallout next week. It's at 96 tomatoes.
