Purple Noon (1960) vs. the much more Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). (The far left affiche was done by French movie poster artist legend, Jean Mascii.)
Category Archives: Remakes/Sequels
Remake Monday: Heartbreak Kids
It’s Charles Grodin’s The Heartbreak Kid (1972) vs. Heartbreak Kid (2007) with Ben Stiller…
Remake Monday: Bob the Thief
Bob le Flambeur (1955) was given a makeover with Nick Nolte in The Good Thief (2002).
Remake Monday: Wonkers!
Here’s the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory vs. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (2005). (via ImpAwards)
Big Bad Fish!
In honor of this weekend’s wide-mouth release of Piranha 3D, here’s a boat-load of some of the nastiest sea creatures to ever glisten the silver screen…
Who’s Got Next?
Now that The Expendables have blasted their way into our consciousness, it will only be a matter of time before these slew of action films get remade into something bigger and badder.
By the way, The Black Six featured a gang of ex-NFL players from the 70’s, so it would be interesting to see which current athletes/actors they would cast for that today…Hmm, how ’bout an NBA version with Shaq, LeBron, Kobe, Ray Allen, and Dennis Rodman to get the ball rolling?
Remake Monday: Bastardized!
Okay, Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglorious Basterds (2009) isn’t technically a remake of the Inglorious Bastards of ’78 — other than the title and a slight plot resemblance of ex-WWII soldiers wreaking havoc on the Nazis…but, with the recent success of The Expendables, there’s no doubt that QT reinvented what surely will be a new wave of 70’s style action-adventure ensemble films.
Remake Monday: Stepford Wives Club
Aniston Meets Streisand!
The Internets have been on fire with pics of Jennifer Aniston doing her best Barbra Streisand for Harper’s Bazaar. Although I never thought there was much of a resemblance between the two, it’s hard not to see the similarities in the types of films they’ve both chosen to do over the years — especially when it comes to the looks of their one-sheets!
Movie Poster Museum 