Why are there so many trilogies? Why the combination of exactly 3 books/movies is so common? Why we don’t hear much of duologies, quadrilogies etc.?

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Why are there so many trilogies? Why the combination of exactly 3 books/movies is so common? Why we don’t hear much of duologies, quadrilogies etc.?

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In movies you have the first movie.
If it does well a second is made called a sequel not a “duology”.

Typically the sequel rarely does better than the first one but if it does do well then a third may be made.

Third movies rarely ever do well enough to warrant a fourth.

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