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Familiarity Breeds Success: Why Movie Sequels Ruled 2013

Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, Fast and Furious 6… The world's top five grossing movies of 2013 were all sequels, and there are plenty more on the way. Why does Hollywood keep returning to the same stories? Will we ever get enough of them? Have we already?

By Barbara Bogaev • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, Fast and Furious 6… The world's top five grossing movies of 2013 were all sequels, and there are plenty more on the way. Why does Hollywood keep returning to the same stories? Will we ever get enough of them? Have we already? Kim Masters is Editor-at-Large for the Hollywood Reporter and the host of The Business here on KCRW.

Barbara Bogaev
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Kim Masters
partner/writer at Puck News, host of KCRW's “The Business.”

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Familiarity Breeds Success: Why Movie Sequels Ruled 2013

Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, Fast and Furious 6… The world's top five grossing movies of 2013 were all sequels, and there are plenty more on the way. Why does Hollywood keep returning to the same stories? Will we ever get enough of them? Have we already?

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Familiarity Breeds Success: Why Movie Sequels Ruled 2013

Iron Man 3, Despicable Me 2, Fast and Furious 6… The world's top five grossing movies of 2013 were all sequels, and there are plenty more on the way. Why does Hollywood keep returning to the same stories? Will we ever get enough of them? Have we already?

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