The Slow Death of Hollywood
Hollywood is hanging itself by its own velvet rope.  Remakes are seen as an excellent investment because, so long as they are properly stylized and full of dazzle, they are low-risk and have reasonable returns.  Usually.This won't work for them forever, and I think everyday people are catching on to the fact that they're just being resold the same stuff they've already bought.  The other day, my cousin's 11 year old son was over and we were trying to figure out what movie to go see.  We asked him if he wanted to go see the live-action Aladdin remake.  He told us he didn't want to see it because they(Disney) were just taking a 2D movie that he'd already seen and are just doing the same thing again with actors to make more money. I gave him a fist-bump.  He's not even a cynical kid, either.  We ended up not even going to the movies because everything that was out was either a remake or n-th sequel, ridiculous looking, or rated R.If kids who weren't even around when Aladdin or The Lion King first came out are catching on to the fact that corporations are just recycling their parent's generation's culture, it's a sign that Hollywood has gotten completely full of itself and is in early-stage apoptosis.