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From Deadpool and Wolverine to Dune: Part Two, all 10 of the highest-grossing movies of 2024 are sequels – and it's the first time that's happened in at least 50 years
Wizard of Oz prequel Wicked could threaten the ranking, though
It marks the first time in 50 years that the entire top 10 is made up of follow-up titles, which we define as direct continuations here – not prequels, reboots, and films merely consisting of existing IP. At the time of publishing (November 21), Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire round out the top 5, while the likes of Kung Fu Panda 4, , Venom: The Last Dance, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, and make up the rest of the list, according to Box Office Mojo. As Gabriel Rossman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, points out to GamesRadar+, "box office has mostly recovered from the extremely low COVID era numbers but not all the way" and there "seems to be at a new equilibrium like 75% of the pre-COVID level."
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