Scott Beggs looks at top-grossing films and says originality isn’t something Hollywood recently lost. He says it’s never been an original thinking place. It’s been a money-making place.

He explains, “The most original box office year was 1984 with 8 originals (Ghostbusters, Beverly Hills Cop, Gremlins, Karate Kid, Police Academy, Footloose, The Terminator and Romancing the Stone). Note how many of those got sequels or were remade. The least original box office years were (of course) 2011 and 2012, although 1968, 1972, 2007, 2013 and 2014 all only had a single original movie make the top ten.”