[The STE]

for crying out loud, Hollywood is not dying, nor will it begin dying any time soon. They're doing remakes of Japanese movies because people go to see them.

since 1980 there've been around 150 remakes (credit: Box Office Mojo), which seems like a lot, until you consider that there's been over 10,346 movies made since 1980. That means that ~1.5% of the movies since 1980 have been remakes.