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Originally Posted by Doc Faustus
I had been looking at the Prom Night and Hitcher remakes as examples, who both put in weak showings.
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The Hitcher indeed did very badly - Prom Night did make some money in the US cinemas and wikipedia has it as a worldwide total of $56,597,560 (I'm not sure if this is DVD sales too I'd say so) which is a lot of profit on a $18m budget.
So The Hitcher was definally a failure the majority of remakes seem to make significant 'bank' - and of course this is the reason they are being churned out..
As for you point of a new writer starting tihe a script for a remake or exisiting francise I never criticised - you're right. Its not how hollywood works on these things.