Animated Films more likely to get a sequel?

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Kunmui

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Does it seem like successful animated movies are more likely to get a sequel than an animated live-action film (That wasn't planned on being a series already)?

It seems like whenever an animated film has good numbers, talk about a sequel from the company already gets posted, no matter what the ending to the original animated film was.

The only reason I could think of is that most animation is already an "original idea" from something, whereas most live-action films today are already part of a series or a remake.

Even so, Hollywood will make any idea, no matter how silly it sounds, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to make a sequel to the modern Karate Kid that isn't a remake of the KK sequel. They've certainly done crazier ideas.
 
I personally think it has to do with the fact that you can have a seemingly endless amount of animated movie sequels granted the voice actors and artists are still alive (or if a suitable imitator is found). Whereas Live Action movies can only have them until the actors become too old that they cannot play the character anymore. whereas in an animated movie you never see them or have them perform stunts. So they can continue doing Voice Acting for much longer than they could a regular Actor.
 
I can think of several animated films that did well at the box office, and haven't gotten a sequel to this day... and yes, that even applies to Dreamworks.

Most of the time, it can't just do good; it has to make enough money that the fandom can't possibly be ignored, and thus, the sequel machine gets cranked up to high gear. You've seen it with Toy Story, Shrek, Madagascar, etc.

In the case of Madagascar (which made something like 500 million worldwide), critics don't exactly have to be in love with the movie, or the series, either. If a movie gets mediocre/bad reviews, yet still makes a ton of money (and by that, I mean make it's budget back, and then some), you can bet it'll get a sequel.
 
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