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Is Hollywood’s Addiction to Sequels Cannibalizing Its Future?
The top 10 grossing movies of the year are all sequels. They're now sustaining the industry, but they're in danger of consuming it.
The other day, as I was looking up a data point on boxofficemojo.com, I noticed something that shocked me: The top 10 grossing movies of 2024, from “ Inside Out 2 ” to “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,” are all sequels. The sequelization of Hollywood in the ’80s represented a trend all too neurotic in its reality: that the industry, in becoming addicted to “surefire” hits, had grown more comfortable looking backward than forward. And when it comes to the trend of making sequels to 40-year-old movies, how many times can we really go back and strip mine the primal nostalgia of films like “Top Gun” and “Beetlejuice”?
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