Remakes

EA Looking At Classic Bullfrog Titles, Though Not For "Remakes"

Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2009

Here is a chart laying out the historical success/failure rate of TV Remakes, show by show:

Evan Shapiro: Who Shot JR? Who Cares? Evan Shapiro 2012

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Is Stephen Chow’s Movie With Jack Black and Anne Hathaway a Bruce Lee Remake? | /Film 2010

Remakes, remakes remakes … but is it a different scenario when the director of an acclaimed foreign film signs on to remake his own movie for English-speaking audiences?

Danish Oscar Submission Terribly Happy to be Remade in English…by the Original Director | /Film 2010

Remakes have been Hollywood's stock in trade ever since in 1914 Edwin S Porter director of The Great Train Robbery, the first film to achieve worldwide recognition was told his company needed to produce a feature-length movie a week.

Hollywood takes a safe bet for 2011 with the year of the repeat 2011

I claim that TV Remakes are bad juju, because I have done the research, and it is simply, conclusively, unquestionably, factually true.

Evan Shapiro: Who Shot JR? Who Cares? Evan Shapiro 2012

They have given up on doing anything new or original (how many “Remakes” or “Re-imaginings” or “Reboots” has the industry pumped out in the previous and next 12 months???).

P2P pirates are lazy freeloaders 2009

Here is a chart laying out the historical success/failure rate of TV Remakes, show by show:

Evan Shapiro: Who Shot JR? Who Cares? Evan Shapiro 2012

I claim that TV Remakes are bad juju, because I have done the research, and it is simply, conclusively, unquestionably, factually true.

Evan Shapiro: Who Shot JR? Who Cares? Evan Shapiro 2012

Remakes are frequently interesting sociologically for the light they throw on changing times and different cultures: Seven Samurai becoming The Magnificent Seven, for instance, or the blaxploitation version of Odd Man Out and The Informer, or the four contrasted treatments of The Front Page.

Hollywood takes a safe bet for 2011 with the year of the repeat 2011