thumb|Ben Hur (1959 film) remake A film remake uses an earlier movie as its main source material, rather than returning to the earlier movie's source material. The 2001 film Ocean's Eleven is a remake of 1960's Ocean's 11, while 1989's Batman is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's Batman. In 1998, Gus Van Sant produced an almost shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho. The 2025 film Snow White is a live-action remake of the animated 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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