Remade

There certain movies that should never be remade, and it would be borderline sacrilege to even consider such a risky endeavor. On the other hand, you can go ahead and repurpose an all-time great as long as nobody notices until it’s too late, which proved to be the case with 1996’s infamous Barb Wire. Pamela Anderson making a play for big screen success at the height of her overwhelming global popularity was a smart move on paper, but in practice it hardly went according to plan. Failing to even recoup half of its $9…

Waze app with icon showing policeSource: WazeIn this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later.Nobody enjoys sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic jams, getting an arrival time delayed due to street construction and gaining more road rage by the minute as a result. Waze, the crowdsourcing navigation app, is continuing to find ways to make frustrating road bumps a little more bearable.Waze users – also known as "Wazers" – provide information on things like stopped…

The long-awaited beta launch of Halo Infinite’s Forge mode has finally arrived, and players are already getting creative with it. READ MORE: Best FPS Games: What’s the best shooting game you can play in 2022? Forge Mode, launched in beta, has finally arrived in Halo Infinite, after a troubled launch for the game that recently saw Xbox Game Studios’ Matt Booty admitting that the game “fell short” on delivering post-launch content, describing it as “stumbling” at the finish line. The game’s Winter Update, which also…

via Sony There are few things worse and more frustrating for film fans than seeing ideas that sound (and very often look) awesome on paper being turned into crushingly disappointing movies, with the creative minds behind the projects in question interpreting the famed saying the other way around by turning chicken salad into chicken sh*t. Of course, anything franchise-related or based on a recognizable IP is always capable of being rebooted, reinvented, remade, reimagined, or any other of the current industry…

Image via Amazon Prime Video Goodnight Mommy, the Matt Sobel-directed psychological thriller starring Naomi Watts, recently found its way to Amazon Prime Video, greeted with mediocre-at-best fanfare and a pair of Rotten Tomatoes aggregations (38 percent for critics and 33 percent for audiences) that do it even less justice. We Got This Covered gave the film 3/5 stars. Per the film’s early reviews, much of the criticism was leveraged towards how needless it was; Goodnight Mommy was based on the 2014 Austrian…

via Universal Based on its enduring quotability, legacy, and ongoing business empire that’s spawned innumerable tie-ins across all forms of media, merchandising, and apparel, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to suggest that Brian De Palma’s Scarface is one of the most instantly-recognizable films ever made. Close to 40 years on, and posters of Al Pacino’s Tony Montana still adorn bedroom and dorm room walls all over the world, while the classic gangster thriller’s long-lasting reputation is made all the more…

Image: Ollie Upton/HBOHBO hasn’t been shy about trying to take the heat away from Amazon’s very popular Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiere, including a literal and figurative scorcher of a battle scene in last night’s episode. But it turns out House of the Dragon’s third episode, “Second of His Name,” has an arguably more important element, at least for Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin—it finally matched his vision for something the original series messed up.That something is the royal hunting party,…

When the design of the PlayStation 5 gaming console was revealed to the public in June, the Internet  compared it with everything from a Wi-Fi router to a mitre or a Pope's hat. But whatever you think of the console, there's no denying that it was made to stand out with its gargantuan, bright white design. Now, a YouTuber has customised the PS5 with wood to turn it into a more compact machine that a lot of us would prefer to own instead.There's no denying that Sony's latest hardware is unusually large for a modern gaming…

Antena 3 Films You must be doing something right when your film ends up being remade countless times over in multiple languages, but we’ve got no idea whether or not co-writer and director Oriol Paulo wears the long-lasting success of his hit 2012 mystery thriller The Body as a badge of honor. The Spanish filmmaker has become one of the industry’s go-to guys for crafting labyrinthine crime stories packed full of twists and turns, having since gone on to helm The Invisible Guest (which has itself been repurposed…