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In an attempt to show the world that remakes will be the downfall of cinema as art, the folks at Lionsgate appear to be working on yet another useless rehash — a remake of the 1987 romance classic Dirty Dancing.

The remake of Short Circuit has found itself a writer from a popular television show that can’t even manage to write 30 minutes of material a week.

We’re launching a fresh, new podcast that encapsulates the Reject spirit next Sunday. But we’re giving you a very special first listen before the big debut. Gird your loins and head on inside. You can thank us later.

As if you needed an excuse to dust off that VHS copy of Troma’s Mother’s Day this weekend, we’re getting word that a remake is brewing, and the mind behind Repo! is directing.

Despite the obvious negativity conveyed in perhaps the worst headline of all time (see above), I actually don’t feel one way or the other about Miramax busting out an English-language version of Tell No One. As long as there are French subtitles.

As if you really wanted another remake story to get up in arms about, Universal is planning on Brand-ing a new Drop Dead Fred. Get it? Brand-ing? Me neither.

I see what you did there…taking a movie that shouldn’t be remade and casting some awesome actors in it. Now I’m conflicted.

Arterton, Mikkelsen and Davalos are all strapping on their togas for Leterrier’s remake of the classic stop-motion film. Plus, you’ll never guess who won’t be appearing in it.

If anyone could do it, it’s the Coen Brothers. But who could possible fill John Wayne’s shoes as the iconic Rooster Cogburn?

Screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen and Luc Besson have designs on another Taken and a new version of District B13. Today’s forecast calls for ass kicking with a slight chance of parkour.

Questioning whether they should remake it or not doesn’t matter anymore. It’s happening. Now we have to figure out if Apatow’s normal casting methods will work for these characters.

We’ve got seven new production images from Fame that are surprisingly good. Our culture might just be ripe for this sort of remake.

Celebrity catfights would normally promote a movie, but not even a smackdown between Hilary Duff and Faye Dunaway can induce me to see the remake of Bonnie and Clyde

Trouble Maker Studios is heading up a reboot, and there might be more than one predator hunting us. Figure that one out.

We’ll take any excuse to strap on our verbal boxing gloves and clock each other with false logic and opinions, so it was no surprise that when the subject of horror remakes came up, we got into a Shouting Match. Ding Ding.

Platinum Dunes’ remake machine can’t be kept down for long. After acknowledging that their plans for a Near Dark reboot have been scrapped due to it’s remarkable similarity to Twilight, the production company has green-lit a start date for their re-imagining of A Nightmare On Elm Street.

Gela Bubliani has brought two bad asses on board for the remake of his 2005 thriller 13 Tzameti. Will they be able to make us forget that 50 Cent is also in it?

Last night Fox broadcasted a 7-minute clip from the upcoming sci-fi remake The Day the Earth Stood Still. Some of the footage was also released at Comic-Con this year and as part of the first trailer, but much of it is brand new.

It’s been common and unfortunate knowledge for a few years that a remake of John Carpenter’s classic, The Thing, was in development somewhere in Hollywood. Since that initial announcement there’s been nothing new to report. Until now.

When I first heard that a remake of It’s Alive was in the works, it struck me as odd. After all, It’s Alive was, itself, little more than a remake of Rosemary’s Baby.