Re: your last question: Money. And it's a shame, because I love Lilo & Stitch, and they could remake it perfectly well "live action". But it looks like they've made it cuter in ways that set my teeth on edge.

Minecraft Movie actually looked like tolerable fun.

Materialists looks like it could either be entertaining or have me throwing things at the screen.

I hadn't realised that Ang Lee had basically vanished for the last decade or so.