Sequels dominate Hollywood’s top-grossing films in the 2010s.

Evidence

What matters in a universe is its endless replication, the distention without innovation of new ideas, new characters, new universes. And by “matters,” one means “sells”: the twenty highest-grossing Hollywood films since 2010 were all sequels, eighteen of them issued by Disney. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 229

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