Stephen Follows has crunched the numbers and come up with some excellent charts on what movies are getting made now and over the last 20 years. His discoveries are fascinating, and his charts make my inner-geek glow.
Follows writes:
This week I have been looking at the 100 highest grossing films for each of the last 20 years. This gave me a dataset of 2,000 films with which to answer a question from Tom Worth… “Can you crunch the data on the number of films that are original screenplays and those that are based on some other source?”
Here is what Follows found:

