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Split Screen: '80s Remakes

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5.2

5.4

Red Dawn

The original "Red Dawn" with Patrick Swayze made a respectable $38 million when it was released back in 1984. Adjusted for 2012 dollars, that works out to be just over $90 million. Of course, the movie about a team of high schoolers fighting back a Russian invasion went on to become a beloved cult classic, and naturally, it has spawned a modern-day remake. Will the new "Red Dawn" which stars Chris Hemsworth be able to match the success of the original?

390

5.4

5.7

Arthur (2011)

1981 Original: $95,461,682
Adjusted Gross: $258,375,100
2011 Remake: $33,035,397
Difference: -$225,339,703

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6.5

5.9

Footloose (2011)

1984 Original: $80,035,402
Adjusted Gross: $189,131,300
2011 Remake: $51,802,742
Difference: -$137,328,558

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4.9

5.2

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

1982 Original: $39,565,475
Adjusted Gross: $106,853,700
2011 Remake: $21,295,021
Difference: -$85,558,679

987

5.3

5.5

Friday the 13th (2009)

1980 Original: $39,754,601
Adjusted Gross: $117,342,600
2009 Remake: $65,002,019
Difference: -$52,340,581

251

5.8

5.1

Fame (2009) (2009)

1980 Original: $21,202,829
Adjusted Gross: $62,583,800
2009 Remake: $22,455,510
Difference: -$40,128,290

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6.2

6.4

Fright Night

1985 Original: $24,922,237
Adjusted Gross: $55,741,600
2011 Remake: $18,302,607
Difference: -$37,438,993

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6.2

The Karate Kid (2010)

1984 Original: $90,815,558
Adjusted Gross: $214,605,800
2010 Remake: $176,591,618
Difference: -$38,014,182

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5.2

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

1984 Original: $25,504,513
Adjusted Gross: $57,957,100
2010 Remake: $63,075,011
Difference: $5,117,911

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5.6

5.8

Clash of the Titans (2010)

(Original: 1981/ Remake: 2010) The original "Clash of the Titans" was for a while there the gold standard of sword and sandal fantasy flicks. It featured the creme de la creme of the British acting world like Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith playing Greek gods in a Mount Olympus that looked vaguely like a discotheque. It featured future "LA Law" star Harry Hamlin as Perseus in a mop top. (Random trivia: Hamlin's then-girlfriend Ursula Andress played Aphrodite.) And it featured some endearingly cheesy stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. The remake, is all the way around a leaner and meaner affair. Sam Worthington from "Avatar" plays a Perseus shorn of his luscious locks. Mount Olympus looks more like something out of "300" than Studio 54. And while this new flick keeps many of the creatures from the original -- Medusa, the Kraken, even Athena's robotic owl -- they've been digitally updated in a way that won't make you giggle.

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6.3

6.5

Evil Dead (2013)

Bonus 80's Split Screen

Original: 1981/Remake: 2013

The Remake which is set to release April 5, 2013 has the same release date month as the original with the original having been released a few weeks later on the 24th of April in 1981. Will this remake be better than the original, or will this remake prove that once again that the originals are still always the better ones?

Original: The Evil Dead (1981)

Remake: Evil Dead (2013)

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There's been a wave of remakes of movies from the 1980s, but only a select few have been more successful at the box office than the originals.

While we've seen a flood of remakes in the last few years, most of them haven't lived up to the success of the first film. In fact, if you compare the remake's gross with the adjusted gross, nearly every one has come up short.