Wouldn't say that about Pixar anymore. They are making about as many sequels as Dreamworks, which are often critisized for this)atlanticaunderthesea wrote:I was going to say, out of all animation houses, Disney / Pixar produces the fewest sequels out of anyone!
Let's see the percentage of films that are sequels:
Pixar- 13 films . 3 sequels (Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Cars 2) - 23.07%
Dreamworks - 21 films. 6 sequels. (Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After, Madagascar 2, Madagascar 3, Kung Fu Panda 2) - 28.57%
Plus Pixar has Monsters University (ok, it's a prequel) and Finding Nemo 2 in the pipeline while Dreamworks has more original properties before HTTYD2 and KFP3.
Might as well have a look at other Western animation studios as well:
Aardman - 5 films. 0 sequels. 0%. None planned either though they do have some other Wallace and Gromit stuff released both before and after Wererabbit.
Blue Sky - 7 films. 3 sequels (Ice Age 2, Ice Age 3, Ice Age 4)- 42.86%. Plus Rio 2 is in production.
Sony- 3 films. 0 sequels. 0% though Cloudy 2 is in production.
Illumination - 3 films. 0 sequels. 0% though Despicable Me 2 is in production.
Looks like Blue Sky are especially bad at this with more than half their films being in the Ice Age franchise. Sony and Illumination have too few films for any trends to be identified. I believe Aardman can be trusted not to make sequels, though.
Also, percentage for WDAS: 51 films. 1 sequel (The Rescuers Down Under) - 1.96%. Granted, most of their films are adaptations which are less conducive towards sequels











