1. Original, Sequel, or Reboot?

    FiLife posted a quick data rundown posing the question of which has been most profitable for major film franchises: the original, the sequel or the reboot? There doesn’t seem to be any hard number crunching present here (no taking into account the price and availability of tickets, inflation etc), but a quick glance of the numbers surprised me quite a bit in some cases. Like how the Bryan Singers’ 2006 reboot stinker of Superman almost doubled the intake of the Richard Donner/Lester directed Superman II, the film in that franchise everyone points to as the measuring stick as far as quality goes.

    But the broader question remains: What constitutes a “reboot”? FiLife lumps 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Rambo into the “reboot” category (among similar others) - but those films simply continue the original characters,  using the original actors, albeit decades later. So is time the only measure of a reboot?

    What do you think qualifies a film as a reboot?