Hollywood Remakes: Part 2

This  combined with the 150 titles in  part 1; I have found over 200 remakes. Excluding titles that get a new version a least once a decade. Example things like Robin Hood, Frankenstein, or A Christmas Carol. I hope you will share parts 1 and 2 with your friends and family.

1. 39 Steps (1935/1959/1978/2008)
2. A Star is Born (1937/1954/1976)
3. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945/1974)
4. About Last Night (1986/2014)
5. All Quiet On The Western Front (1930/1979)
6. Animal Farm (1954/1999)
7. Around The World In 80 Days (1956/2004) [Disney]
8. Babbit (1924/1934)
9. Beaches (1988/2017) 
10. The Beguiled (1971/2017)
11. BFG (1989/2016)
12. The Bishop's Wife/The Preacher's Wife (1947/1996)
13.  Brave New World (1980/1998)
14. Breathless (1960/1983)
15. Breeders (1986/1997)
16. Cabin Fever (2002/2016)
17. Cape Fear (1962/1991)
18. Cimarron (1931/1960)
19. Death At a Funeral (2007/2010)
20. Death Wish (1974/2017)
21. Doctor Zhivago (1965/2002)
22. Endless Love (1981/2014)
23. Envoy's Tres Speciaux/Special Correspondent's (2009/2016)
24. Far From The Madding Crowd (1967/1998)
25. Flatliners (1990/2017)
26. Fever Pitch (1999/2005)
27. Flowers In The Attic (1987/2014)
28. The Four Feathers (1939/1978/2002)
29. From Here To Eternity (1953/1979)
30. Les Fugitifs (1986)/Three Fugitives (1989)
31. Funny Games (1997/2008)
32. The Gambler (1974/2014)
33. Gaslight (1940/1944/1958)
34. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2010/2011) 
35. Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939/1969/2003)
36. The Great Gatsby (1974/2013)
37. The Heart Break Kid (1972/2007)
38. House on Haunted Hill (1959/1999)
39. Into The Woods (1990/2014)
40. The Island of Doctor Moreau (1977/1996)
41. IT (1990/2017)
42. The Italian Job (1969/2003)
43. Jacob The Liar (1979/1999)
44. A Kiss Before Dying (1956/1991)
45. Lady Chatterely’s Lover (1981)/Lady Chatterely (1993/2006)
46. Lemonade Popsicle (1978)/ Last American Virgin (1982)
47. Let The Right One In (2008)/Let Me In (2010)
48. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936/1980)
49. The Little Princess (1939/1986/1995)
50. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960/1986)
51. Lolita (1962/1997)
52. Lord of The Flies (1963/1990)
53. Madam Bovary (1949/1991/2000/2015)
54. The Magnificent 7 (1960/2016)
55. The Manchurian Candidate (1962/2004)
56. Maniac (1980/2012)
57. Miracle On Ice (1981)/Miracle (2004)
58. The Mummy (1932/1999/2017)
59. Murder on The Orient Express (1974/2017)/Agatha Christie’s Murder on The Orient Express (2001)
60. My Man Godfrey (1936/1957)
61. Night of the Demons (1988/2009)
62. Native Son (1961/1986)
63. Of Mice and Men (1939/1968/1981/1992)
64. Our Town (1940/2003)
65. Pink Panther (1964/2006)
66. Pollyanna (1960/2016) Polly (1989)
67. Poltergeist (1982/2015)
68. Prisoner of Zenda (1937/1952)
69. Scarface (1932/1983)
70. The Secret Garden (1975/1987/1993)
71. The Shaggy Dog (1959/1994/2006)
72. State of Play (2003/2009)
73. The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)/The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
74. That Darn Cat (1965/1997)
75. The Thing (1951/1982)
76. The Time Machine (1960/2002)
77. The Vanishing (1988/1993)
78. Village of the Damned (1960/1995)
79. When A Stranger Calls (1979/2006)
80. The Wolf Man (1941/2010)
81. When Billy Beat Bobby (2001)/ Battle of the Sexes (2017)
82. A Wrinkle in Time (2003/2018)
83. The Yearling (1946/1994)
84. The Yellow Handkerchief  (1977/2008)

Video Rental Stores in film

Video Rental Stores in film 

I miss video rental stores where I live all of them have closed is this is the closest thing to seeing them again. These films take place or have important scenes in video rental stores.

An interesting fact is that the video rental setting is used 6 times during the 80's and 90's While 2000 to 2022 The time of Netflix, Redbox and Streaming the video rental setting is used 10 times not including the South Park special mention.  

Another interesting fact is that Blockbuster is used three times South Park, Yes Man, and the Netflix series Blockbuster. The rest are independents or are portrayed as independents. 

Remote Control (1988)
A video store clerks stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a B grade1950s science fiction movie.

The Fisher King (1991)
After inspiring a listener's mass shooting a shock jock Jack Lucas falls apart until he starts helping Parry a man whose wife was killed in the shooting.

Earth Angel (1991)
In 1962 Angela died in a car accident on her way to prom. After dying she learns that she can not enter heaven until she takes care of some unfinished business on Earth before the day of her death 1991.

Clerks (1994)
A day in the lives of two clerks Dante (convince store) and Randal (video rental store) as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the roof of the store.

Scream (1996)
After the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Superstar (1999)
A girl working for a video rental store works for attaining her dreams of fame and kissing the Big Man on Campus.

Loser (2000)
A university freshman, Paul Tannek branded a loser by his roommates and set up to be kicked out of the dorm, falls in love with a coed Dora Diamond who has eyes for the elitist Professor Edward Alcott.

Sugar and Spice (2001)
When high school cheerleader Diane gets knocked up by her boyfriend. They get married and get low paying jobs at a grocery store bank and a video rental store. Wanting to give the best life for her twins Diane and her squad mates plan to steal needed money. Researching bank robbery from movies and using their cheerleading skills, the girls devise a plan to rob a bank.

Jersey Girl (2004)
After his career is destroyed by an unexpected tragedy and a personal melt down, a single father Ollie Trinke grieves and just getting by. Until meeting a beautiful love interest  Maya at a video rental store she works at; he starts to turn his life around.

I Am Legend (2007)
When an unstoppable virus that turns human race into bloodthirsty mutants, civilization's last hope for a cure lies with scientist Robert Neville, the sole survivor in New York City. Based on the short story Richard Mathenson.

Be Kind Rewind (2008)
A video-store employee  accidentally erases every tape on the shelves, In order to stay in business, the employees try and re-create all the films, with their own camera, with a budget of zero.

Good Dick (2008)
An extreme introverted girl that rents soft-core porn from a local video rental store.  While there she meets a video store clerk who vows to win her heart.

Yes Man (2008)
Based on the memoir Yes Man by Danny Wallace [First Published in 2005]. Banker Carl Allen has gotten through a bitter divorce, lives his life going to work and watching rented videos after work. Until he goes to a self-improvement seminar; at the seminar the guru makes Carl say yes to everything that comes his way.

This Means War (2012)
A pair of best friends and CIA agents wage an epic battle against one another when they discover they are dating the same woman.

A Nightmare on Facetime (10/24/2012) Season 16; Episode 12*
The 235th episode of the series overall. Randy Marsh purchases a Blockbuster video store and demands that his reluctant family work in it on Halloween with him. Aspects of which parody the 1980 film The Shining, and an episode of The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror V: Season 6: Episode 109 (1994) Act 1: The Shinning

Beyond the Gates (2016)
After their father's disappearance, two brothers Gordon and John reunite to close down his video store. While doing this they find an old VHS board game and decide to play. On the tape, a ghostly woman offers them a way to rescue their father.

Blockbuster (2022)
A Netflix sitcom about the last Blockbuster store the manager trying to keep it open and his employees. (Netflix making this seems Ironic).  

* While several TV shows have episodes use a video rental store as a location This is a special inclusion because it covers what things were like with video rental in 2012. 
Blockbuster ceased operation in 2013.

Last 40 Books I have read (2017)

I am really busy with moving to a new apartment so I am posting the last 40 books I have read.

“Magic Kingdom For Sale: Sold”                 Terry Brooks                                                 373

Grimm: “The Icy Touch”                              John Shirley                                                  312

“Dark City”                                                   Frank Lauria                                                  246

“Christine”                                                    Stephen King                                                 503

“Pacific Rim”                                                Alex Irvine                                                    336

Terror Academy: “Night School”                  Nicholas Pine                                               171

“A Million Ways To Die In The West”         Seth MacFarlane                                           211

“The Running Man”                 Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman                      219

“The Mask Of Zorro”                                     James Luceno                                              213

“Silver Linings Playbook”                            Matthew Quick                                             289

“Man In The High Castle”                          Philip K Dick                                                  288

“Hondo”                                                        Louis L’Amour                                             208

“The Hunger Pains”                                The Harvard Lampoon                                       157

“Descendants”                                              Rico Green                                                    166

Descendants: “Mal’s Diary”                         Tina McLeef                                                 192

Descendents: “Isle of the Lost”                   Melissa De La Cruz                                       311

Descendants: "Return To The Isle of the Lost"    Melissa De La Cruz                              309

“Geek Charming”                                             Robin Palmer                                            338

“Ex-Heroes”                                                       Peter Clines                                             336

“Ex-Patriots”                                                      Peter Clines                                             402

“Ex-Communication “                                       Peter Clines                                              343

“School of The Dead”                                              AVI                                                    276

“Galaxy Quest”                                                 Terry Bisson                                             169

“Poldark Saga: Ross Poldark”                      Winston Graham                                           379

“Poldark Saga: Demelza “                             Winston Graham                                          409

“Poldark Saga: Jeremy Poldark “                  Winston Graham                                          295

"Poldark Saga:  Warleggan"                          Winston Graham                                          471

 "Poldark Saga: The Black Moon"                 Winston Graham                                          546

"Poldark Saga: The Four Swans                    Winston Graham                                          581

"Poldark Saga: The Angry Tide"                    Winston Graham                                         612

“Descendants: Rise Of The Isle of the Lost”    Melissa De La Cruz                                  289

“Descendents 2”                                              Eric Geron                                                  197

“Sir Apropos of Nothing”                              Peter David                                                   647

“Which Witch?”                                          Eva Ibbotson                                                    249

“Suicide Squad”                                           Marv Wolfman                                                375

"Arrowsmith"                                                Sinclair Lewis                                                438

"Pennsylvania's Finest"                                Dr. Michael Banas                                          342

"House of God"                                             Samuel Shem, M.D.                                      419

 "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland"             Lewis Carroll                                                  176

"Through The Looking Glass" `                     Lewis Carroll                                                   192

When compared to the 40 book from 8th Grade post there is a shift in what I read. Then it was average list for a child of that age and time. This list is more related to this blog and what I am trying to accomplish. 

Watchlist from the Disney's Descendents novels by Melissa De La Cruz

This is a Watchlist from the Descendents novels by Melissa De La Cruz [First Published in 2015]. This book series take place around the movies from Disney Channel. The list is made from every reference that I found from the three books The Isle of the Lost, Return to the Isle of the Lost, and Rise of the Isle of the Lost.

 

A final note: These books are an enjoyable read and fit well with the Descendents movies. I recommend reading them as well as watching the movies.

Disney's Descendents (2015)

Disney's Descendents 2 (2017)

Disney's Descendents 3 (2019) 

101 Dalmatians (1961/1996)

                101 Dalmatians 2: Patch’s London Adventure (2003)

Aladdin (1992)

                Aladdin 2: Return of Jafar (1994)

                Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)
                Aladdin: TV Series (1994-1995)

Alice In Wonderland (1951/2010)

                Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016)

Beauty and the Beast (1991/2017)

                Beauty and The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)

                Beauty and The Beast: Belle’s Magical World (1998)

Cinderella (1950/2015)

                Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True (2002)

                Cinderella 3: A Twist In Time (2007)

Dog With A Blog (2012 – 2015)

Dumbo (1941)

Fantasia (1940)

                Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Frozen (2013)

Hercules (1997)
                 Disney's Hercules (1998-1999)

The Little Mermaid (1989)
                The Little Mermaid TV series (1992-1994)

                The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (2000)

                The Little Mermaid : Ariel’s Beginning (2008)

Liv and Maddie (2013 – 2017)

Maleficent (2014)

Mighty Med (2013 – 2015)
                  Lab Rats: Elite Force (2016) (This is a spin off of Mighty Med and Lab Rats)

Mulan (1998)

                Mulan 2 (2005)

Ocean’s 11 (1960/2001)

                Ocean’s 12 (2004)

                Ocean’s 13 (2007)

Peter Pan (1953)

                Peter Pan: Return to Neverland (2002)

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Robin Hood (1973)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Snow White and the Sever Dwarfs (1959)

The Sword In The Stone (1963)

Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)

Tangled (2010)

Tarzan (1999)
             The Legend of Tarzan (2001-2003)
             Tarzan and Jane (2002)
             Tarzan II (2005)