Why does the Hollywood film industry focus so much energy on remakes and reboots?

Most of the remakes over the past decade in my view have been greatly unnecessary. Remakes such as The Omen, The Poltergeist, The Ghostbusters, Fame, King Kong etc.

It’s not like there aren’t other new original ideas out there. There are endless amounts of books that could be turned into original movies.

Now don’t get me wrong there are certain exceptions to when a remake or reboot can work. The Star Trek movie reboot is an example of one in my opinion, along with Mad Max and the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. These movie reboots actually bring something new to the table and experiment with the story while being somewhat true to the original at the same time.

But overall most movie remakes just seem like a quick way for Hollywood to make money without actually producing a new fresh and creative product. A movie should be a masterpiece and work of art. It saddens to see such a lack of this in Hollywood of late.