Despite the long-winded marketing campaign, extensive promotional touring and 22-year-old in-built fan base, the highly-anticipated 2012 revision of Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1990 smash hit "Total Recall," was a big bomb at American box offices this past weekend.

With an estimated production budget of $200 million, the new, highly-digitalized rendition took in just $26 million at the theaters on its opening weekend, a very distant second to third-weekend blockbuster "The Dark Knight Rises," which added $36.4 million to its profits, totaling $354.6 million since its dramatic opening.

However, "Total Recall" isn't the only remake/re-imagination/reboot/reinvention that has failed to make its monetary mark in American cinemas in recent times.

2011's "Conan the Barbarian" remake was listed to have cost $90 million to make, but gleaned just $21.3 million at the box office, and the "Arthur" reboot also failed to deliver last year, returning $33 million of its $40 million budget.