Comparison To Remakes
The term remake applies to films which use a previous film as its main source material, often reusing the same storyline while updating times and places to match contemporary settings, such as 1998's A Perfect Murder or 2001's Ocean's Eleven, whereas the term reboot is ascribed to film series such as Police Story (rebooted in the 2004 film New Police Story), Batman (2005's Batman Begins), James Bond (2006's Casino Royale), Star Trek (the 2009 Star Trek film - though still in the existing Star Trek canon, but in an alternate universe), Spider-Man (2012's The Amazing Spider-Man),, Scary Movie (2013's Scary Movie 5), and Superman (2013's Man of Steel).
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