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For years, we have heard studios highlight their “IP”, understand the Intellectual Properties for which they hold the rights to make films. These famous licenses which make it possible to attract a maximum audience without taking too many risks with unknown characters or stories.
THE box office 2024 spectacularly reflects this increasingly significant Hollywood trend. The world rankings of the year are totally dominated by sequels! The top 10, in its entirety, is made up of blockbusters from pre-existing franchises.
From No. 1 Vice-Versa 2 has Twisters (more of a reboot than a sequel, but still…), going through Deadpool & Wolverine Or Despicable Me 4 Or Dune 2 Or Kung Fu Panda 4 Or Bad Boys 3 Or Beetlejuice2 etc. Even number 11 of this global box office (Alien: Romulus) is a sequel and you have to look in 12th place to find any trace of an original film, with Jamais Plus – It Ends with Us !
Of course, the phenomenon is not new. THE box office 2022 was for example already totally dominated by sequels, with Avatar 2, Top Gun 2, Jurassic World 3, Doctor Strange 2, Minions 2 Or Black Panther 2.
Last year, if barbie And Super Mario were well in the top 3 of box office 2023also based on licenses, they were still, in a certain way, original films. As Oppenheimer – based on a 2006 book – but from the vision of a filmmaker, Christopher Nolan.
To find a trace of a film without IP, which is also not a biopic, in the top 10 of an overall box office, you have to go back to Alone on Mars (2015) by Ridley Scott (based on the novel by Andy Weir) which had totaled $630 million. And to find traces of a totally original film, neither adapted from an IP, nor from a franchise, nor from a personality, nor from a novel, you have to go back 10 years, to the time ofInterstellar (2014) and its 680 million.
Would there still be room at the studios to make a Interstellar Today ? The question may arise.