Thursday, February 6, 2014

Editorial: Not all movies are Remakes, Reboots, Prequels or Sequels

        Every year there a numerous amount of movies that come out. since 2000 there has been over 7,000 film for an average of 563 films that are released each year. However when we see a list of movies that come out each year all we really pay attention to is all of the remakes, reboots, prequels and sequels. In actuality those films only cover about 20% of the films that are release each year. Lets take a look at 2013 for example...
                                      2013 had 676 films total be released during the year (only 282 were released worldwide). The movies that were re-released will not be counted

                                      #of  Original Ideas                       # of Remakes, Reboots, Prequels and Sequels
January                                       20                                                                       2
February                                     16                                                                       4
March                                         27                                                                       2
April                                           20                                                                       3
May                                            25                                                                       4               
June                                            16                                                                       3                                  
July                                             21                                                                       5        
August                                        25                                                                       2       
September                                  21                                                                       2        
October                                      19                                                                       5               
November                                  18                                                                        4          
December                                   14                                                                       4                      


Out of all the films that were released worldwide 242 were original ideas while only 40 were remakes,reboots, prequels or sequels. That's about how each year pans out and the same goes for 2014 as so far we've only had 2 film that are remakes, reboots, prequels and sequels (Paranormal Activity: the Marked Ones and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit). So before we jump to conclusions, let's just take a deep breath and actually look at the list of films that are original ideas.

        So ladies and gentlemen what do you think of the statistics I've presented to you today? Let me know in the comments section and let your voice be heard.

                                                                                                                                         Jonah Sparks

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