Tom Cruise as Maverick smiling and making a fist in Top Gun: Maverick.
The concept of the sequel has always been one of the most essential and ubiquitous in cinema. Especially nowadays, films that introduce audiences to expansive worlds with the potential for new stories, new characters, and new experiences tend to get sequels. Legacy sequels, in particular, are very common in the modern Hollywood-dominated film landscape. These movies revive old franchises after many years of dormancy, usually reflecting on the legacies that those classics left behind.
The original Star Trek picture did phenomenally well, but the magic of J.J. Abrams was clearly enough to carry his version of the story a bit further up. 2009's Star Trek made $17,158,633 more than The Motion Picture and sparked a new trilogy set in a continuity parallel to the original show's. Though most fans would agree that Abrams's tenure in the USS Enterprise never quite reached the height of the original movies, it at least definitely did so financially.
Best remembered as the film that finally gave Paul Newman his long-overdue Oscar — one of the most notorious Best Actor wins in Academy history — The Color of Money is one of Scorsese's most underappreciated works. Newman and Tom Cruise are phenomenal, the directing is full of life and energy, and the film justifies its existence better than 99% of legacy sequels these days. This winning formula was enough for it to make $70,824,815 more than The Hustler at the domestic box office.
Toy Story is such a popular series with audiences, and the concept of legacy sequels was so relatively recent in 2010 that Toy Story 3 was a huge hit at the box office. It made $92,681,330 more than the original, becoming one of Disney's highest-grossing films and showing that creativity, originality, and passion could still very much be found in these special kinds of sequels.
Mad Max: Fury Road was a surprise hit with audiences worldwide, making $161,386,215 more than the original. It's a wildly creative, non-stop, action-packed ride through a post-apocalyptic desert that displays the most delightfully nonsensical parts of Miller's imagination, and audiences clearly responded to that. Mad Max: Fury Road is one of the most acclaimed action movies of the 2010s, and it has the box office to back up its popularity.
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