{"id":96207,"date":"2025-06-23T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96207"},"modified":"2025-06-22T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:08:29","slug":"80-of-top-grossing-movies-are-prequels-sequels-spin-offs-remakes-or-reboots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/80-of-top-grossing-movies-are-prequels-sequels-spin-offs-remakes-or-reboots\/","title":{"rendered":"80% of top-grossing movies are prequels, sequels, spin-offs, remakes or reboots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Gioia<\/a> on the death of creativity in the movie business, which also seems to be tracking almost exactly with the trend in music business profits:<\/p>\n

I’m not shocked when I look in the mirror. Yeah, the Honest Broker isn’t getting any younger. But that’s the human condition.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should start using a moisturizer. What do y’all think?<\/p>\n

Nah. I’ll just let this aging thing play out.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I’m dumbfounded at everything in public life getting older \u2014 even older than me!<\/em> Consider the current political landscape.<\/p>\n

With each passing year, the US Congress looks more like the College of Cardinals<\/a> (average age =78) or the Rolling Stones (average age = also 78). <\/p>\n

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Source<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

We’re gonna need a lot<\/em> of moisturizer.<\/p>\n

But Congress is young and spry compared to Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Back in 2000, 80% of movie revenues came from original ideas. But this has now totally flip-flopped.<\/p>\n

Today 80% of the movie business is built on old ideas \u2014 remakes, and spin-offs, and various other brand extensions. And we went from 80% new to 80% old in just a few years. <\/p>\n

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Source: Experimental History<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Look at music \u2014 and you see the same thing.<\/p>\n

The share of old songs on streaming will soon reach 80%. It’s not quite there yet \u2014 the latest figures are 73%. But it was at 63% back in 2019. So it’s just a matter of time. <\/p>\n

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Source<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2000, streaming didn’t exist, so we looked to the Billboard<\/em> chart to gauge a song’s success. And new music made up more than 80% of charted songs. So here \u2014 just like the movies \u2014 we’re flip-flopping from 80% new to 80% old over the course of a few years.<\/p>\n

I don’t have good figures on publishing. But I’m pretty sure that AI-generated books and articles will soon represent 80% of the marketplace. Maybe we’ve already reached that threshold.<\/p>\n

AI is deliberately designed to cut-and-paste, rehashing past work as its modus operandi<\/em>. And it will do this to every field \u2014 replacing originality with repetition and regurgitation.<\/p>\n

This is the new 80% rule.<\/p>\n

Just imagine if traditional businesses operated this way.<\/p>\n