QuoteNo it isn't. A reboot can be a remake but it doesn't necessarily have to be.
If a reboot can be a Remake, why can't a reboot be a Sequel also? The one Option doesn't exluce the other one, you just see things in black and white, there is more to it though.
QuoteNo they weren't. They were sequels. They continued from the previous films. The fact they've renewed interest is incidental.
Nothing is incidental in Hollywood, and more than ever if you spend 250 Million Dollars on a product, a product that is designed to gain interest and to get asses into seats. How do you do that? Right, you include everyone, fans and people who have never seen a Star Wars or JP movie, and you do that by starting fresh, yet with elements from the past, but just enough so new People don't get confused. That's what a reboot distinguishes itself from a "true Sequel", that is mostly designed to give an existing fanbase more of the same.
John Davis said that Predator 2 was a reboot for example, yet it was a Sequel, Predators was a reboot and was advertised as such by it's Producer, yet it was a Sequel. You see? Yes, the term reboot
can mean they start fresh, but in 90 % of the cases it just means they start a long shorted franchise again.
That's why they will call it The Predator and not Predator 4, and not Jurassic Park 4 but Jurassic World and the Thing Prequel was simply The Thing etc. Those are/were all reboots designed to dust off franchises, yet were Sequels/Prequels.
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Batman Begins was a reboot because it wiped out all the previous Batman movies, but it wasn't a remake of any of them.
You could also say they were Remakes though, why? Because, while not in particular remaking any of the other movies, they remade the start of the Batman character. Just because the two movies are profoundly different doesn't exclude the fact that there was a Batman movie, yet they decied to scuff that and remake/redo it.