Posts Tagged ‘remake’

Aaron (Chris Rock) is trying to get through the day as he’s about to bury his father.  The family is coming in and does it become a day and a half.  Ryan (Martin Lawrence), Aaron’s famed published author brother, is coming in – and refuses to help pay for the funeral.  Elaine (Zoe Saldana) accidentally gives her fiancé, Oscar (James Marsden), a hallucinogenic drug when she gives him one of Jeff’s (Columbus Short) apparent ‘valium’.  All at the same time a dwarf named  Frank (Peter Dinklage) claiming to be Aaron’s father’s lover and trying to blackmail Aaron  so that he will keep his father’s secret affair a secret. (more…)

A team of elite covert ops soldiers are sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit.  Shortly after their incarceration they escape and out on the loose looking for revenge and to clear their names.  The team consists of: the aviation mad man Murdock (Sharlto Copley), strong muscle B.A. Baracus (Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson), the suave pretty boy Lt. Templeton ‘Faceman’ Peck (Bradley Cooper), and the brilliant strategist Hannibal (Liam Neeson); they’re an unstoppable force. (more…)

Sherry (Taraji P. Hensen) and Dre (Jaden Smith) have to move to Beijing, China after Sherry was transferred to the Chinese division of the can company she works for.  There Dre meets Meiying (Wenwen Han) and immediately falls in love, but Cheng (Zhenwei Wang) doesn’t like Dre and begins to bully him to stay away from Meiying.  Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) finds out about this and decides to teach Dre Kung-fu so that he can defend himself and participate in an open tournament. (more…)

A poor village of farmers in Mexico is being terrorized by a bandit and his men.  They are forced to give all they have every season to them.  They finally decide to fight back. They go to the town near the border and hire some lone guns to fight the bandits.  In comes The Magnificent Seven. (more…)

Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) is one week away from beginning to shoot his latest film Italia, the only problem is that he hasn’t written the script yet.  He’s being harassed by the press, his producer, his costume designer and even his star actress, Claudia (Nicole Kidman) for this script that he has no clue what it’s going to be about.  We follow Guido as he searches his life and looks back at all the women that influenced him into being who he is today as he tries to figure out exactly what he’s going to do about this film. (more…)

Here is Tony Scott’s remake of the 1974 film of the same name, except that one had words instead of numbers in the title, and I must say that Mr. Scott had a tough job to update this movie without making it completely ridiculous. The film is about Ryder [John Travolta] who decides to take a group of individuals and take a train hostage in the New York subway system and demand ten million dollars from the city. Walter Garber [Denzel Washington] is the guy who is on the dispatch line at the Metro Control Centre and gets mixed up in this hostage situation. (more…)

If you happen to be a dumb sexy guy or girl who likes to go camping then Crystal Lake Camp might be your thing. However, Jason Voorhees [Derek Mears] is lurking and for some reason people don’t make it back home after heading out into those neck of the woods. Another group of nameless actors and actresses head out to Crystal Lake to get stoned, have sex and eventually get hacked to shreds by this huge guy with a hockey mask.

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Here is another remake coming out.  I’ve never seen the original but after looking up some information on it and finding out that the original starred Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw I’m somewhat interested in that, but the trailer for this version starring John Travolta and Denzel Washington just looks aweful.  But with that said the trailer for the original looks bad as well.  Anyways here’s the trailer: (more…)

The uninitiated director Samuel Bayer has been hired to direct the upcoming reboot of The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise for Michael Bay’s production company, Platinum Dunes, and New Line.  Wesley Strick has been reported to be working on the screenplay, he has also written screenplays for Aracnophobia, Cape Fear and Doom.

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Joe [Nicholas Cage] is a highly skilled hitman who is heading to Bangkok to do his final job. There he befriends a smalltime hustler, Kong [Shahkrit Yamnarm], who he contracts as his personal messenger. Joe is contracted by some Asian gangsters to take out four targets and we follow him as he completes these tasks.

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