Remakes and Reboots

 John Scalzi looks at movie remakes and their financial success, relative to the original versions. Snippet:

 "A couple of weeks ago I made the observation, regardingThe Thing, that the new versions of popular horror filmsdon't tend to come anywhere close to the success of the films they're drawing from -- in this case, the 1982 version of The Thing (which was in itself something of a box office disappointment at the time). This resulted in a friend asking me whether the same held true for straight-ahead science fiction films: How did their remakes and reboots do, relative to the originals? 

The answer, unsurprisingly, is: It depends."