Many sequels and remakes only get greenlit because their name recognition guarantees big opening business.
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Moviegoers, of course, know all about remakes, the vast majority of which are perfectly horrible.
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KatzSmith has been snapping up scripts by other writers, optioning literary works and developing remakes and sequels to popular films.
Plus, most remakes are put in the hands of first-time directors, who don't want to risk screwing up a moneymaker.
Meanwhile, plate remakes are down 5 points, to 8.5% of all runs.
Which is why we are seeing so many sequels, remakes and films based on material that automatically comes with a fan base.
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That's why studios (almost all of which are owned by public companies, and therefore have to answer to shareholders) love sequels, remakes and adaptations.
However, when it comes to remakes, like "Let Me In, " the 2010 U.S. version of "Let the Right One In, " he sings a different tune.
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Remakes aren't supposed to top originals, or even to match them.
With so many horror remakes of late--Halloween in 2007, Friday the 13th in 2009, Nightmare on Elm Street in 2010--there's been a reverting to type.
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They are also wondering whether churning out remakes is such a good idea because even in Hollywood they have consistently received a very mixed verdict at the box office.
These represent quite the mixed bag, and unfortunately, most remakes fail, both critically and financially, despite the overriding belief in Hollywood that they are somehow safe bets or sure things.
The Kidz Bop people tout their CDs as "today's biggest hits sung by kids for kids, " and this particular volume contains remakes of 16 pop songs that I've absolutely never heard.
Hundreds of remakes have been created, starring, among others: dancing babies, ponies, Batman, Gandalf, Navy midshipmen and a group of now-infamous lifeguards in El Monte, Calif.
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Though international formats often lack the built-in recognition of spin-offs (Fox's upcoming The Cleveland Show) and remakes (CW's upcoming 90210), they can, though they don't always, offer something even more appealing: lower production costs.
Six of them are either sequels or remakes.
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But Charles River is more the story of a man than of a mouse--a classic tale of a frustrated entrepreneur who wrests control of a family-founded company back from a giant corporation and remakes it in his own image.
On the other hand, the remakes that do work well tend to be the ones you do not even know are remakes, where for some reason, the original concept was great, but either its execution, or more commonly its distribution, failed, and the public forgot they exist.
Director Ram Gopal Verma seems to agree with this contention - he has embarked on the mother of all remakes, a reversion of the 1975 blockbuster hit Sholay (Flames), a star studded curry-western which ran for years in the theatres and became the most iconic Bollywood film ever made.
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