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Life, The Cineverse and Everything
Feb 15th  / Episode 26: The REMAKE!

• Introduce Megan.
• Valentines Day recommendations: When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, 500 Days of Summer
• Have you seen anything good recently?
  • Lego Movie 2 / Velvet Buzzsaw / The Kominsky Method / Bird Box / V For Vendetta / The Titan / Crashing (HBO) / Star Trek Discovery / Sorry to Bother You / Geostorm /

• NEWS:
  • ‘Aladdin’ Genie Reveal in TV spot / Epix starting streaming service w/ MGM properties (Disney+, Apple, AT&T/ Warner Media, DC Universe) / Hulu’s Animated Marvel Universe / Captain Marvel’s epic 90’s website / TOP MOVIES AT BO: Lego Movie 2, What Men Want, Cold Pursuit, The Upside, Glass

• Main Topic: The Hollywood Remake
  • Remakes are not new: Ocean’s 11 (1960/2001), Psycho (1960/1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968/1999), Scarface (1932/1983), The Italian Job (1969/2003).
  • It all starts with an IP – Intellectual Property that a studio owns.
  • I’m categorizing into 3 different categories: Re-Interpretation, To Improve Upon the Original, Cash Grab.
    • Re-Interpretation (best kind, a.k.a. ‘Reboot’): Superhero - Batman (1989)/ Batman Begins (2005), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Dracula (6 times), The Mummy (1932/1999/2017)
    • Improve Upon Original: Foreign films - 12 Angry Men (1957/1997), 3:10 to Yuma (1957/2007), The Birdcage (1996)/ La Cage a Folles (1978), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008/1951), The Departed (2006)/ Internal Affairs (2002)
    • Cash Grab (converting an already good movie into another version): Animated/ Horror - 101 Dalmatians (1961/1996), Beauty and the Beast (2017/1991)
  • Good Remakes: Star Trek (2009), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), War of the Worlds (2005), The Departed (2006), Man of Steel (2013)
  • Bad Remakes: Total Recall (2012), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), Ghostbusters (2016), The Karate Kid (2010), King Kong (2005)
  • Remakes Currently in development – Aladdin (2019), Lion King (2019), Shaft (2019), Charlie’s Angels (2019), The Hustle (2019), The Batman (2021), Fantastic Voyage, The Howling, Inspector Gadget, The Invisible Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Masters of the Universe, Mulan
  • Remakes we would like to see: Quantum Leap, Futurama, MIB/Independence Day?
•  What are you looking forward to seeing/doing in the next few months?
• • How to Train Your Dragon 3 (Feb 22), Captain Marvel/ Dumbo (Mar 8/9)
  • Roma (Nflix), Flighting With My Family, Glass
• Sign off. (Bye!)