A dark future long in the making is here for films.
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
Submitted 5 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to movies@lemm.ee
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Wizard of Oz prequel Wicked could threaten the ranking, though
How, though? While technically not the same as a sequel, it’s still expanding on an established property, which seems to be what’s popular. It’s still not something wholly original.
Syntha@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
There are almost no big original movies being made, that goes much further than just sequels. It’s all adaptations of books and plays, reboots, remakes.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deadpool and Wolverine serves as a sequel to the Deadpool movies, the X-Men movies AND the Loki TV show.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
and the Blade movies.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
+Daredevil and Elektra, +FF. Really the only thing they didn’t touch was Ghost Rider.
TheBat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And it was 💩
Just a bunch of jokes and fanservice strung together without any story.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It was awful. My wife bowed out after 10 minutes. I made it about half way through before I yielded and admitted it was a terrible movie, and shut it off. I do not understand its success and popularity.
UniversalMonk@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Which is exactly why it was so awesome!
misk@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
The title is quite confusing. It sounds like the last time all top 10 spots were occupied by sequels was 50 years ago. What they actually meant is that over the last 50 years numbers of sequels in top 10 was gradually increasing (starting from 0 in 1973/1974).