[imgabe]

This is something people keep saying out of inertia. It hasn't really been true for a few years. There's been a ton of original movies lately. I guess they just don't get a lot of press or people don't go to the movies anymore. Here's a few from the last couple years:

    Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die    
    Honey Bunch
    Cold Storage
    Send Help
    Marty Supreme
    Dust Bunny
    Fackham Hall
    Eternity
    Rental Family
    Bugonia
    Roofman

Ok, going to cut this short because I'm only back to October 2025 and it's already long. Seriously, there's lots of movies out there that aren't part of a franchise or other IP (other than maybe books).

[tanepiper]

Sorry to tell you but Bugonia is a remake of a Korean movie "Save the Green Planet"

[matthewdgreen]

I think the key complaint about remakes isn't "the idea isn't totally original", the complaint is that studios are only willing to make IP that customers are already deeply familiar with. I don't think Green Planet really counts.