How many movies are made each year and how many movies have been made ???

I think it would be really hard to try and count them all. There was a period, as one of the posters above me already said, where Hollywood was churning them out at a mad-crazy pace. Plus, what qualifies as a "movie" for you? What about foreign films? Independent films? Hollywood isn't the only place where movies are made, and actually Hollywood isn't a studio... just a place where hundreds of big-production studios cluster. I think it would be safe to assume the number is in the millions.

The movies that are never shown on the big screen are called "straight to DVD's". These movies are often judged by authorized people or pulled out by the production team from being shown at the big screen because mainly it won't make any money. Although there are some that turn out successful even though the original intent for the movie was to be a "straight to DVD". The ones that are released to the big screen are called "theatrical releases". These movies are the ones that critics and movie watchers anticipate as a ground-breaking, usually from books or comics that has many followers.