What percentage of movies are based on novels?

An incredible 70\% of the world’s top 20 grossing films are based on books (Frontier Economics). The percentage of books adapted for film vary each year, sometimes substantially, as trends in popular culture must be followed.

Why do people make movies based on books?

Established popular books are a comparably faster and data-supported way for studios to develop film and TV plots. As more studios compete to have the next Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, it’s easier to turn to a completed work and fully envisioned (and beloved) world than to develop a story in-house.

Do books sell more than movies?

According to new research from the Publishers Association, films based on books take 44\% more at the box office in the UK and 53\% more worldwide than original screenplays.

What movies are just like the books?

Read on for our list of the best movies based on books.

• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Little Women (2019)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• The Wizard of Oz (1939)
• The Remains of the Day (1993)
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Persepolis (2007)

Do books lead to movie adaptations?

Books often lead to movie adaptations, and so much the better for sparking a fire toward both industries — if a movie gets more people to read, great; if avid readers get to see their beloved characters on the big-screen, that’s a boon too.

Can a movie version of a book go wrong?

And so on. There are a million ways for the movie to go wrong, the most dangerous, perhaps, being a dilution of the initial concepts that got readers so excited about the books in the first place. But any way you look at it, the movie version of a widely successful book is bound to go wrong.

Why do popular books inspire movies?

But popular books aren’t just indications of how successful the movies they inspire will be; more personally, those books are readers’ conduits to other lives and other worlds, lives and worlds informed by those readers’ own imaginations.