any book on hollywood history could have a tagline that goes something like "how to make money doing the same thing over and over." hollywood remakes have been happening since the beginning of "talkies," when studios decided to remake some favorite silent flicks with the new technology of sound. ever since, there seems to be a cycle that hollywood is constantly in the process of remaking something, usually a film that is roughly 20-30 years old. so while it seems that remakes are up, and you can use your numbers as you did to prove it, what's really happening is a sift to another decade of remakes. we've done our seventies remakes, and it seems like the shift to the eighties is happening. but in adding with the other comment about book adaptations to screen, the question isn't so much about "how much is hollywood remaking these days" as it should be "how much original content is coming from hollywood." now THAT would be news, and should be. why keep making it news that hollywood is doing what it always does, it's like making a story that some computer company is still making computers, when the true story lies in when that computer company starts making anything other than computers.