Cecil B. DeMille Christian and Jewish heritage to convey a message of tolerance. "The Crusades" was the first film to show accord between Christians and Muslims. DeMille received more than a dozen awards from Jewish religious and cultural groups, including B’nai B’rith. In 1954, he was seeking approval for a lavish remake of his 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments". He went before the Paramount board of directors, which was mostly Jewish-American. The members rejected his proposal, even though his last two films, "Samson and Delilah" and "The Greatest Show on Earth", had been record-breaking hits. Adolph Zukor, the chairman of the board,
Remake Remake A remake is a film or television series that is based on an earlier film or TV series and tells the same, or a very similar, story. The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source. For example, 2001's "Ocean's Eleven" is a remake of "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