Did You Know These Classic Films Were All Remakes?

Vanilla Sky

The 2001 flick "Vanilla Sky" was adapted from a 1997 film called "Open Your Eyes." In this adaptation, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, and Kurt Russell tell the story of a young man's fantastical story of his life through flashbacks. Reality and fiction blend together with mess and mayhem in both films...

 Village of the Damned

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, damned if you delve into the part origins of "Village of the Damned." This 1995 John Carpenter flick is actually a remake of a 1960 film by the same name. A generation of children in this town grow up at an alarmingly quick rate, and it becomes clear these are not normal kids...

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The More You Know

  • The first public movie screening was held in 1895 in Paris.
  • In the movie Dredd, they slowed down a Justin Bieber song by 800 times to create the "slow motion" noise.
  • The iconic body and hand in the poster for American Beauty belong to actress/model Chloe Hunter, not Mena Suvari.
  • Fantasia (1940) was originally a short called The Sorcerers Apprentice, but Walt Disney overspent on the score and decided to make it feature length film rather than waste money.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.