While Marvel's Avengers universe has been a success, other studios have yet to implement their attempts at repeating the formula.
His new film "Una lunga, lunga, lunga notte d'amore" ("A Long, Long, Long Night of Love") is neo-realism revisited, repeating the formula some 50 years later, with half a dozen stories interacting over the longest night of the year, the winter solstice.
Besides Valve's Dota 2, which has achieved international success in its own right on the PC, a number of developers are hoping to strike gold by repeating the formula on tablets.
Subsequent attempts at repeating the formula since the Do They Know It's Christmas?/We Are the World double knockout have largely been met with indifference, including the cancer-relief track Just Stand Up led by Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Rihanna, which didn't even crack the US top 10 in 2008.
Starz found success turning a fan-beloved book into a TV show with Scottish time-travel romance "Outlander" (based on Diana Gabaldon's book series of the same name), and looks to be repeating the formula with "American Gods".
On "Give Me Love", Harrison blended the Hindu bhajan style (or devotional song) with Western gospel music, repeating the formula of his 1970 71 international hit "My Sweet Lord".
In a rambling speech, Visconti said that today's record labels were simply repeating the formulae of the past, with diminishing returns.
After criticizing the economic policies of congressional Republicans, Biden turned to Chu, a 1997 Nobel laureate in physics, and said, "From what I understand, you don't win a Nobel prize for repeating the formulas of the past.
NI would love to repeat the formula in Britain.
Many novelists would have been tempted to repeat the formula.
Yet Green Day has not tried to repeat the formula of its commercial peak.
