The biggest films of 2024 all have one surprising thing in common – but that could be about to change

It’s harmless to accidental 2024 has been different steadfast twelvemonth for cinemas aft the Covid-19 pandemic, and movie fans person figured retired why.

Last year produced the Barbenheimer phenomenon, a $1billion-grossing Super Mario film, and brought to an extremity the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.

This twelvemonth has seen huge occurrence for animated films with Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4, portion a Marvel resurgence came acknowledgment to Deadpool & Wolverine.

And with December approaching, moviegoers connected social media person spotted that each 10 of the highest-grossing films of 2024 are sequels.

But that could each beryllium astir to alteration acknowledgment to Wicked’s unthinkable debut astatine the planetary container office, with its opening play already making its fund back.

Against a fund of £120million, Wicked has already earned backmost £130million, with the remainder of its opening week inactive to go.

Critical reactions person besides been positive, with the movie presently certified caller astatine 90% with a coagulated mean reappraisal people of 7.9 retired of 10.

It lone needs to marque different £200m crossed its tally successful worldwide cinemas for it to creep wrong of the apical 10 worldwide for the full twelvemonth of 2024.

When that happens, Wicked volition beryllium the archetypal non-sequel movie successful the full apical 10 for 2024. Every different movie is either the second, third, oregon adjacent 4th movie successful their sagas.

So far, Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Despicable Me 4 pb the way, with Dune Part Two and Godzilla vs Kong: The New Empire completing the apical five.

Kung Fu Panda 4, Venom sequel The Last Dance, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice takes sixth, seventh, and eighth place, portion Ride oregon Die (the 4th Bad Boys film) is ninth.

Finishing the apical 10 is Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which volition beryllium knocked retired erstwhile Wicked enters the apical 10 earlier the extremity of the year.

To find a movie that isn’t a sequel, a reboot, oregon an adaptation, you person to spell down to 20th placed If, starring Ryan Reynolds – that grossed £150m worldwide.

According to GamesRadar, you’d person to spell backmost astatine slightest 50 years to find different twelvemonth wherever the full apical 10 was made up of sequel films.

And adjacent then, that’s lone due to the fact that information from earlier 1974 isn’t wholly accurate. Previous highs for large sequels were successful 2015 and 2022.

The archetypal clip that much than 5 sequels were featured successful the year’s apical 10 was 2003, erstwhile the Lord of the Rings, Matrix, and Terminator franchises each got large sequels.

Since then, the numbers person lone climbed, with much and much sequels driving radical backmost to cinemas successful the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, things haven’t gone good for each sequels this year, with Joker: Folie á Deux and Mad Max Furiosa some underperforming astatine the container office.

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