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There's an easy answer:
Hollywood executives (those in charge of green-lighting production) know that they can make more money, on a per-dollar basis, in a safer fashion using tried-and-true genre movies, sequels, and remakes.
Seriously - it sounds facile, but it's the truth.
Is this even a bad thing, though? First, people vote with their wallets, and "shitty" popcorn or genre movies consistently outsell movies with far more artistic merit. Second, the studio is in business to make a profit, and there's a good chance those (supposed) art-house movies I prefer never get made without Michael Bay ejaculating onto a screen and calling it Transformers. Don't want remakes or sequels? Stop going to see them.
Finally, part of creating is integrating, reinterpreting, or even outright stealing from what already exists. Think of how there are "movements" or "periods" in art - nothing exists in a pure vacuum. A reinterpretation isn't, by rote, a bad thing - the story may not change (or it may - see the movie version of "The Natural" versus its source material), but the story telling surely will.
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