This is done both to cash in on audience nostalgia and also for Disney to correct and fix some issues with the films that may not have aged well. Since then, the company has remade many of its animated classics, with much emphasis placed on the films of the Disney princess line. While Disney had experimented with live-action remakes of their animated films in the 1990s, the trend really took off in the 2010s following Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, making $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
