The consensus on the site states, " Director Reitman tries to remake Ghost Busters, but his efforts are largely unsuccessful because the movie has too many comedic misfires.

The ongoing popularity of the series spawned a 1993 film remake by 20th Century Fox.

Emlyn Williams was cast as Caligula in the never-completed 1937 film I, Claudius, and Courtney Love appeared as Caligula in a fake trailer for Gore Vidal's Caligula, ostensibly a remake of the 1979 film, but actually a parodic short film by conceptual artist Francesco Vezzoli.

In the later period, the scientist himself is altered by his experiment ( e. g. his remake of The Fly ).

The movie was directed by George Marshall and is a remake of a 1932 version starring Tom Mix.

* An almost shot-for-shot remake of the 1939 production, Destry ( 1954 ), was also directed by George Marshall and stars Audie Murphy and Thomas Mitchell.

The reformed Dead Kennedys followed their court victory by announcing a number of tour dates, releasing reissues of all Dead Kennedys albums ( except Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, to which they did not have the rights until 2005 ), releasing several new archival concert DVDs, and licensing several songs to The Manchurian Candidate remake and the Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game.

Several of the Pokémon games have also received director's cuts and have used the term " extension ," though " remake " and " third version " are also often used by many fans.

Chinese women playing flutes, from the 12th-century Song Dynasty remake of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, originally by Gu Hongzhong ( 10th century )

* An Ordinary Miracle and its remake, a fairy-tale love story about a bear who has been transformed into a man by a wizard, and must be kissed by a princess to return to his original form.

In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for the 2005 remake of King Kong.

In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.

In 1976 he was hired by Barbra Streisand and her producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Bobby Ritchie, road manager to Kris Kristofferson's character in the remake film A Star is Born.

This deterioration that can occur in an international remake happens by over-presenting negative cultural assumptions that, as time passes, sets a common ideal about that particular culture in each individual.

Image: Meister nach Chang Hsüan 001. jpg | Ladies making silk, a remake of an 8th-century original by Zhang Xuan by Emperor Huizong of Song, early 12th century, Chinese

Image: Gu Hongzhong's Night Revels, Detail 1. jpg | Night Revels, a Song Dynasty remake of a 10th-century original by Gu Hongzhong.

But after the war, Prufer rewrote his entire diaries in order to remake himself from an anti-Semitic German ultra-nationalist into a Nazi opponent who was utterly disgusted by Nazi anti-Semitism ; his deception was not exposed until the 1980s by American historian Donald McKale.

This video was reused in 2006 by the English DJ and artist Shaun Baker who did a remake of Bakerman.

The premise is that Lars von Trier challenges director Jørgen Leth, his friend and mentor, to remake his old experimental film The Perfect Human ( 1967 ) five times, each time with a different ' obstruction ' ( or obstacle ) specified by von Trier.

It is based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, and is a remake of the 1969 Francois Truffaut film Mississippi Mermaid.

Some of these films would get remade by Universal in later years, either as theatrical releases ( such as Meet Joe Black, a remake of Death Takes a Holiday ), or for television.

* All the Harold Lloyd features ( silents and talkies ) released by Paramount are owned by the Harold Lloyd Trust except for The Milky Way ( 1936 ), acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Productions for a remake and now in the public domain ; and Professor Beware ( 1938 ), which is owned by EMKA / Universal Television.

A film version under the same name was made by Gainsborough Studios in 1947, and a remake entitled The Dark Angel, starring Peter O ' Toole as the title character, was made in 1987.

" In 2010, Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter W. Chiarelli, " praised the school ... for being at the forefront of the effort to remake strategic military planning for the 21st century ".

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

These included a remake of the 1960s episode Sykes and a Stranger, which had originally featured Leo McKern but the new version saw Peter Sellers taking the role of a childhood sweetheart of Hattie's who arrives on the Sykes's doorstep claiming Hattie as his fiancé.

Jason Winer directed the remake and Peter Baynham penned the script.

* Dambusters, a planned remake of the 1955 film to be produced by Peter Jackson

Escape to Witch Mountain is a 1995 American television film directed by Peter Rader and a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain.

A remake directed by Peter Rader was released in 1995.

* Films — Lister enjoys watching films, from classics like Citizen Kane and Casablanca ( the remake with Myra Binglebat and Peter Beardsley, which Lister described " definitive ") to films like Revenge of the Surfboarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls.

It has been announced that a portion of Peter Jackson's remake of the 1954 film Dambusters will be filmed at RAF Scampton.

Three actors from the original film have cameos in the remake, appearing on the televisions the survivors watch: Ken Foree, who played Peter from the original, plays an evangelist who asserts that God is punishing mankind ; Scott H. Reiniger, who played Roger in the original, plays an army general telling everyone to stay at home for safety and Tom Savini, who did the special effects for many of Romero's movies and played the motorcycle gang member Blades in the original Dawn of the Dead, plays the Monroeville Sheriff explaining the only way to kill the zombies is to " shoot ' em in the head.

The movie, which is loosely a remake of the 1936 film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, also stars Peter Gallagher, John Turturro, Allen Covert and Steve Buscemi.

A 1988 remake presented by Peter Marshall aired on Sky TV, and Keith Chegwin hosted a Challenge version in 1997 and 1998.

This year also saw The Mutton Birds ' contribution to the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's film The Frighteners with a remake of Blue Öyster Cult's 1976 classic "( Don't Fear ) The Reaper ".

Peter Stone so disliked the remake that he refused his story credit on it, and is instead credited as Peter Joshua, one of Grant's character's aliases in Charade.

Peter John Farrelly ( born December 17, 1956 ) and Robert Leo " Bobby " Farrelly, Jr. ( born June 17, 1958 ), professionally known as the Farrelly brothers, are American screenwriters and directors of eleven comedy films, including There's Something About Mary ; Dumb and Dumber ; Kingpin ; Hall Pass ; Me, Myself & Irene ; Shallow Hal ; Stuck on You ; Osmosis Jones ; Fever Pitch ( also known as The Perfect Catch outside of America ), the 2007 remake of The Heartbreak Kid, and The Three Stooges.

* King Kong ( 2005 )-A Universal Pictures remake of the original ( set in the original film's 1933 contemporary setting ) by Academy award-winning New Zealand director Peter Jackson, best known for directing the Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

In 2007, The Krankies appeared in the video for the Comic Relief remake of The Proclaimers ' song I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles ), which featured Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin ( fictional characters portrayed by Peter Kay and Matt Lucas respectively ).

The remake, with David Wayne playing Peter Lorre's role, was not well received by critics or audiences.

* 14 December: King Kong, Peter Jackson's remake of the classic movie about a giant ape, premiers in Wellington.

He also played Monsieur Ernest LeClerc in the sixth series of ' Allo ' Allo !, and had a supporting role in a remake of Indiscreet ( 1988 ) and a new BBC version of a Lord Peter Wimsey story.

Peter Cushing played the Baron in each film except for The Horror of Frankenstein, which was a remake of the original ( Curse of Frankenstein ) done with a more satiric touch, and it featured a young cast headed by Ralph Bates and Veronica Carlson.