Courtesy @ERCboxofficeEvery Top 10 grossing film in 2016 was either a sequel, a spinoff, a superhero movie, a reboot or a toon...or a combination there of.
This is why overall attendance continues to fall off...
Courtesy @ERCboxofficeEvery Top 10 grossing film in 2016 was either a sequel, a spinoff, a superhero movie, a reboot or a toon...or a combination there of.
Over the last decade only two original movies have been #1 worldwide: 2013's FROZEN ($1.2B) and 2009's AVATAR ($2.7B).
And both of those are getting sequels...FOUR FREAKING SEQUELS in Avatar's case.AndyDursin wrote:More depressing is this:
Over the last decade only two original movies have been #1 worldwide: 2013's FROZEN ($1.2B) and 2009's AVATAR ($2.7B).
I remember Entertainment Weekly doing an issue once in the mid-90's about the 100 most popular films of all time...which they determined not by the box office take, but by how many tickets they sold (and they threw in VHS video rentals, as well), which, to me, is the real determination of how popular a film is. It kind of blows my mind going back thirty years or so and looking up what the top-ten highest grossing films of that particular year were...and maybe two or three of them made more than $100 million. Nowadays if a film doesn't pull in $100 million in its opening weekend, it's considered a colossal flop. But, then again, thirty years ago movie tickets cost a third of what they are today, and movie budgets were likewise a fraction of what they are now. I remember being awed when I read that Tim Burton's Batman cost $45 million in 1989, but nowadays that won't even cover the cost of a romantic comedy, let alone a splashy summer action movie. Hell, Disney probably blew $45 million on Robert Downey Jr.'s paycheck alone for the last Captain America.AndyDursin wrote: The number of tickets it's selling, however, is a fraction of what E.T. once did, even if it passed it in the unadjusted box-office figures (which are worthless when comparing movies of today with movies that opened when tickets were $4).