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(GamesRadar+has not counted Chinese box office figures in this report).
“Theaters need box office wherever they can get it,” he explains.
“Whether that’s originals, sequels/franchises, or more niche/emerging genres like streaming live events.”
Not everyone is down with sequels' big screen domination, though.
“The stories they’re telling are just old movies,” he claimed.
“‘Let’s do a sequel, let’s do another version of this movie.’
There’s no original thinking… the big studios… they don’t have an imagination.”
Franchise films are hardly a new phenomenon.
Still, from 1974 to 2002, less than five of the top 10 highest-grossing were continuations every year.
“We’re gonna balance sequels with originals specifically in animation.
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