Film remake

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A film remake is a film based on a previous production.

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Remakes are sometimes near copies, such as the 1952 The Prisoner of Zenda, nearly identical to the 1937 black-and-white version, but shot in Technicolor; and Psycho (1998), a shot-for-shot color remake of the black-and-white Psycho (1960). More frequently they introduce some changes or new elements e.g. in the original The Front Page (1931), a male newspaper editor tries to keep his male star reporter from quitting; in the remake His Girl Friday (1940), the reporter is female and the editor's ex-wife. Black Caesar (1973) is a blaxploitation retelling of Little Caesar (1931).

Technological advances can allow a remake to include features that were not possible at the time the original was made. A silent film can be remade as a "

• List of film remakes (A–M)
• List of film remakes (N–Z)
• List of English-language films with previous foreign-language film versions
• List of Disney live-action remakes of animated films

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