Category Archives: remakes

Snow White

“Snow White” Trailer

Marc Webb directed Snow White from a screenplay by Greta Gerwig and Erin Cressida Wilson. The American musical follows Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler, and her confrontational with the evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot.

“Mirror, Mirror on the wall…” The seven dwarfs arrived, finding the beloved Snow White in their home.

The live-action film is a remake of the Walt Disney classic, the first animated, full-length motion picture.

Other films by Marc Webb:

500 Days of Summer

The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Gifted

The Only Living Boy in New York

“Twisters” Trailers, Posters and Featurettes

This summer, the epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces.

A modern-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster Twister, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Twisters stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell. They are opposing forces who come together to predict and tame the immense power of tornadoes.

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. Her friend, Javi, played by Anthony Ramos, lures her back to the open plains to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. 

She crosses paths with Tyler Owens, played by Powell, the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew—the more dangerous, the better.

As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before become unleashed. Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

“Road House” Trailer, Image and Posters

Anthony Bagarozzi wrote the screenplay for Road House, an action movie directed by Doug Liman.

The film is a remake of the 1989 film starring the late Patrick Swayze.

An ex-UF middleweight fighter played by Jake Gyllenhall ends up in the Florida Keys working at a rowdy bar. He soon finds out things are not as they appear.

Daniella Melchior, Conor McGregor, Lukas Gage and Billy Magnussen also star in the film.

Films Liman directed:

Edge of Tomorrow

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Ultimatum

Swingers

American Made

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Chao Walking

Swingers

Fey Adds a Twist to “Mean Girls” Trailer, Posters, Featurettes

Tina Fey brings a fresh take on Mean Girls, the modern classic.

Tina Fey plays Ms. Norbury in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

Co-directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., the story follows new student Cady Heron, who is welcomed into the top social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics.”

Bebe Wood plays Gretchen, Renee Rapp plays Regina, and Avantika plays Karen in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

The conniving queen bee, Regina George, rules the group. She uses her minions, Gretchen and Karen, to help deliver dirty deeds. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs.

Christopher Briney plays Aaron in Mean Girls from Paramount Pictures. Photo: Jojo Whilden/Paramount © 2023 Paramount Pictures.

As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis and Damian, she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

“White Men Can’t Jump” Coming to Hulu

Calmatic directs this remake, White Men Can’t Jump, making it a contemporary story about racial differences in athletes.

The movie stars Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow as a pair of hustlers who team up on the court.

“The Little Mermaid (Live-Action Movie)” Trailers, Featurette, Clip and TV Spot

Based on a classic fairy tale by the talented Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid (Live-Action Movie) arrives as a live-action adaptation of the 1989 animated film by Disney Studios.

Rob Marshall directs the story that follows Ariel, played by Halle Bailey, a young mermaid who dreams of living on land and going through life as a human.

Ariel makes a bargain with the evil sea witch Ursula, played by Melissa McCarthy, and trades her lovely voice for a chance to live as a human, walking with two feet and legs on land. There is a catch, which makes the story interesting. Ariel must win the love of Prince Eric, played by Jonah Hauer-King, in three days to make the human transformation permanent.

All is not so easy because Ursula connives to create challenges that even Ariel doesn’t understand. Living on land is new to her, but she adjusts and tries to win Eric’s heart.

The movie has songs from the original animated film and some new ones to keep the redundancy at bay.

Austrian Remake, “Goodnight Mommy,” Stars Naomi Watts

Written by Kyle Warren and directed by Matt Sobel, Goodnight Mommy is an English-language remake of the Austrian film of the same title. 

The story follows twin brothers, played by Cameron and Nicholas Crovetti. They arrive at their mother’s country home, played by Naomi Watts, to discover her face covered in bandages.

She explains she needs to wear the dressings with her recent cosmetic surgery.

They immediately sense that something doesn’t add up because of her odd behavior, doing things their loving mother would never do. She sets strange new house rules, smokes in her bathroom, and secretly rips up a drawing they gave her.

As her behavior grows increasingly bizarre and erratic, a horrifying thought takes root in the boys’ minds. They have a sinking suspicion that the woman beneath the gauze, making their food and sleeping in the next room, isn’t their mother. 

In Warren and Sobel’s version of the film, the fundamental theme is “the human need to be either the victim or the hero of one’s own story — never the villain.”

Compared to the original Austrian film relies on aesthetics and tone, the English remake focuses on reimagining character and psychology, emphasizing the drama over the horror elements. 

CAMERON CROVETTI and NICHOLAS CROVETTI star in GOODNIGHT MOMMY Photo: DAVID GIESBRECHT © 2022 Amazon Content Services LLC

“Some of the specific changes we made were to put one of the twin boys, Elias, at the center of the story, whereas the original largely treats the three main characters democratically,” explains Sobel. 

CAMERON CROVETTI stars in GOODNIGHT MOMMY Photo: DAVID GIESBRECHT © 2022 Amazon Content Services LLC

They wanted to bring the audience into Elias’ experience, so they dramatized his thought processes. Another change was to create the role of Mother as not a monster but a flawed human being whose actions take on new meaning once the movie reveals the story’s core mystery. 

CRYSTAL LUCAS-PERRY, CAMERON CROVETTI and NICHOLAS CROVETTI star in GOODNIGHT MOMMY Photo: NIKO TAVERNISE © 2022 Amazon Content Services LLC

Sobel and Watts weaved her performance to specific behaviors that make it clear there’s more going on than meets the eye. They made those moments vivid enough that when the viewer reaches the film’s end, they don’t need to return to the beginning immediately to understand what happened.