It's probably just marketing.
Exactly. Once they decide to bump it from the spring, they'd be crazy to release it in summer with all the big budget movies so the next best time is October.
Same here. It's not that I think there's all that many great remakes but I still try to have an open mind. I do think that they've gotten to the bottom of the barrel and are remaking average and bad movies so some remakes are better than the originals but only because the original was lousy to...