Movie sequels
Published By: Screen Digest
January 2005
R261-031
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Description
Movie sequels is a vital tool for anyone interested in developing, financing, investing, producing, distributing and researching movie sequels, franchises or series. The report is a unique and original analysis of the increasingly lucrative area of movie sequels. Included in the report are theatrical box office numbers, release data, week by week burn rates and frontloading rates. The detailed analysis also takes in sequel success by decade and year, release patterns, and a full box office analysis by year, month, distributor and by genre.
Key Findings:
Sequels have take over $20bn at the box office in the past quarter of a century. The highest grossing series of films is the Star Wars franchise, the five movies earning $1.4bn at the US box office and the sixth movie keenly awaited by exhibitors and the public alike in 2005.
This decade is the most successful ever seen for movie sequels. The average annual box office per year has been climbing steadily since the 1980s, to stand at $1.9bn for all sequels in the 2000s, compared with $718m in the 1990s.
First movies in a series took 38 percent of total sequel revenues earned at US box office. The second movie (or the first sequel) accounted for 36.1 per cent of total box office revenues, indicating that an average sequel performs only marginally poorer at the box office than the original film.
Action films account for the highest number of sequel releases, some 51 movies or 29.8 per cent of all sequels. However, sci-fi is probably the most successful sequel genre. Not only does one series extend to 10 movies (Star Trek), the average revenues earned by the second title are an impressive 46.1 per cent above the first.
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Table of Contents
List of tables and charts
1 Executive summary
2 Introduction
Methodology
Sequel comparison
Sequel comparison: box office
Sequel comparison: box office per title
Sequel comparison: proportion of total revenues taken by first title in series
Time spans
Gap between individual movies
Series length
Titles
Number of titles in a series
Sequel revenues
Sequel box office drop off and revenues by genre
Action
Adventure
Comedy
Family
Horror
Romantic comedy
Sci-fi
Box office headlines
Genre
Distributor
Month
Year
Release headlines
Genre
Distributor
4 Sequel comparison
Top 10 sequel series
Sequel comparison
5 Time spans
Gap between titles
Time spans by genre in years
Time spans—ranked by total time span
6 Titles
Frequency of number of titles in a series
Number in series
7 Sequel revenues
Title development summary
Box office evolution for series
Title revenues development by genre
8 Box office headlines
Sequel box office breakdown by genre (box office)
Sequel box office breakdown by genre
Sequel box office breakdown by month
Sequels box office breakdown by distributor
Sequels box office breakdown by year
Average yearly box office by decade for sequels
Sequels box office breakdown by decade
9 Release headlines
Sequel releases by genre
Sequel releases by month
Sequels release breakdown by distributor
Sequels release breakdown by decade
Sequels release breakdown by year
10 Burn rate headlines
Burn rate by genre
Burn rate by distributor
Burn rate by month
Burn rate by year
11 Frontloading headlines
Frontloading rates by genre
Proportion of total box office accounted for by week by distributor
Frontloading rates by month
Frontloading rates by year
12 Genre releases by US distributor
Genre breakdown by distributor
Overall distributor's proportion of titles within genre
Overall proportion of titles by genre for each distributor
Speed
Spider-Man
Spy Kids
X-men
GENRE: ADVENTURE
Back to the Future
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
Stone
Lord of the Rings
Mummy, The
Scooby Doo
Shrek
GENRE: COMEDY:
American Pie
Analyze This
Austin Powers
Hot Shots!
Legally Blonde
Naked Gun
Police Academy
The Santa Clause
Scary Movie
Sister Act
Wayne's World
Genre: Family:
Babe
Beethoven
Dr Dolittle
Home Alone
Muppet Movie
Stuart Little
Toy Story
GENRE: HORROR:
Blair Witch Project
Friday the13th
I know what you did last summer
Jurassic Park
Nightmare on Elm Street
Scream
GENRE: ROMANTIC COMEDY:
Look Who's Talking
GENRE: SCI-FI:
Alien
Ghostbusters
Star Trek—The Movie
Star Wars
Terminator
13 Genre releases by release month
Monthly breakdown by genre
Overall proportion of total monthly releases by genre
Overall breakdown of releases by month for each genre
14 Monthly releases by US distributor
Monthly breakdown by distributor
Overall proportion of total monthly releases by distributor
Overall breakdown of releases by month for each distributor
15 Appendix A: Sequel details + comparisons
Sequel details
Sequel comparison ranked by total box office
Sequel comparison ranked by average
BO per title
Sequel comparison ranked by percentage taken by first title
16 Appendix B: Theatrical box office/admissions decay USA sequels/franchises
GENRE: ACTION:
Bad Boys
Batman
Blade
Charlie's Angels
Die Hard
Fast and The Furious, The
Highlander
Indiana Jones
Kill Bill
Lethal Weapon
Matrix
Mission Impossible
MIB
Predator
Rambo
Rush Hour
Month
Year
Burn rate headlines
Genre
Distributor
Month
Year
Frontloading headlines
Genre
Distributor
Month
Year
Genre releases by US distributor
Leading distributors of sequels
Distributor dominance of genres
Genre releases by release month
Monthly releases by genre
Genre breakdown by month
15 Appendix A: Sequel details + comparisons
16 Appendix B: Theatrical box office/admissions decay USA sequels/franchises
Monthly releases by US distributor
Distributor release by month
Monthly releases by distributor |
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