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Kim Hollis: I think there's always an inherent danger in remaking previous movies and TV shows. The most successful ones really do seem to be the movies that have been marketed within an inch of their lives. Everything has to be just so. I think nostalgia can work very much in favor of these projects, but it can also be a detriment. If they looks too cheesy or seems to be poking too much fun, people seem to turn against remakes. I think that studios might misjudge the real interest in the original movie or TV show. Just because something has a few passionate supporters doesn't mean that it merits a big budget movie remake.

Jason Lee: Let's be honest here. Friday the 13th had a FANTASTIC opening. Race to Witch Mountain did just fine. Last House on the Left had a very respectable weekend. Until these things stop making money, I doubt that any studio has reason to fear treading into the remake area.

Pete Kilmer: They'll keep getting remade and soon we'll be into the late '80s and 1990s shows and movies. I wonder if we can get an Airwolf movie?

Joel Corcoran: "Everything old is new again," is more than a simple motto to live by. Hollywood seems to be making it a standard of doing business these days, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I think a lot of great, creative concepts arose during the 1960s and 70s, as the Cold War mentality was truly settling in, that can be remade using modern technology. A good, serious remake of A Clockwork Orange could be a big hit, or The French Connection. Or Jaws for that matter.

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Kim Hollis: Watchmen fell 68% to $17.8 million. It has a running total of $86 million after ten days and is probably looking at $120 million domestic finish. What went wrong with Watchmen?

David Mumpower: I have a world of respect for the job Zack Snyder did here and I think he did as good a job on the film as anyone could have done if they wanted to be faithful to the adaptation. What went wrong here is that in being so respectful of the source material, he dragged the film out to an unwelcome length for mainstream movie-goers who just wanted comic book action. Think pieces on the nature of mankind and why we are prone to be bellicose by nature do not have widespread appeal. If they did, Battlestar Galactica would be the number one show on television instead of a Sci-Fi Channel program that has barely gotten renewed a couple of times. What does Heroes have that it doesn't? Brain dead (and I mean lobotomized zombie type of brain dead) comic book action. Watchmen in name only probably would have done more business than Watchmen as intended did, which is a rather depressing thought.

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