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I'm more interested in what those 20 movies are. I found:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1981

   1 Raiders of the Lost Ark
   2 On Golden Pond
   3 Superman II
   4 Arthur
   5 Stripes
   6 The Cannonball Run
   7 Chariots of Fire
   8 For Your Eyes Only
   9 The Four Seasons
  10 Time Bandits

Of which I guess 2, 3, 8 isn't original.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2:w014

   1 American Sniper
   2 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
   3 Guardians of the Galaxy
   4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
   5 The LEGO Movie
   6 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
   7 Transformers: Age of Extinction
   8 Maleficent
   9 X-Men: Days of Future Past
  10 Big Hero 6

Of which only 10 is original.

Big Hero 6 isn't original, if that's what you're saying there -- it's drawn from the same Marvel universe as Captain America and Guardians of the Galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hero_6_(comics)

Heavily adapted for a different audience, certainly, but still not an original story.

Oh, didn't know that. That means 0/10 for 2014 then.

American Sniper is?

But it drops off the list I think when you look internationally. Your links are domestic.

http://deadline.com/2015/03/big-hero-6-600-million-third-big...

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Hunger-Games-Mockingjay-Par...

http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/American-Sniper#tab=summary

No, not in the sense of not using copyrighted material published in other channels -- it's based on several books. I don't think the screenplay could have been legally used without agreements with at least some of the authors there.

Not also how all of those are fantasy movies for kids and adult geeks. No Raging Bull or American Grafitti or Apocalypse Now or Three Days of The Condor, etc etc.

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