Why are movie producers making so many remakes of movies from the 80’s?

Question by John Alderich: Why are movie producers making so many remakes of movies from the 80’s?
Why are movie producers making so many remakes of movies from the 80’s?
Such as this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorority_Row

Are they running out of ideas?

Best answer:

Answer by Amari
because they made a lot of money…

its not that they are necessarily running out of ideas, but its a whole lot easier to redo a story then to make your own

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