The highest grossing film has always been an original movie

There's some hope for Hollywood after all.

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>original
At least 5 of these are based off books. And Avatar is a Ferngully remake

why some of them are few times?

Is gone with the wind that good? Or was there just fuck all to do in the past?

Re-releases.

You can pin point the exact moment they switched from the gold standard to fiat

But they aren't sequels, that makes them original.

Going to the theater was literally the only way to watch a movie before home video came around.

>But they aren't sequels, that makes them original.
Are you slow, mate?

Someone needs to correct that, The Singing Fool overtook The Birth of a Nation in 1928, I belieeeve.

Also, you got historical movie, bestseller adaptation, biopic, bestseller adaptation, book adaptation, heavily plagiarized "original", heavily plagiarized "original" (google Satyajit Ray The Alien), bestseller adaptation, historical movie, heavily plagiarized "original".