Of the 15 highest-grossing films in the United States this year, only one wasn’t a sequel, a remake, or an offshoot of some existing franchise. That was the horror movie Us, a clever take on the trope of the evil twin. Everything else, from Avengers: Endgame to Joker, continued an old story or borrowed existing characters.
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