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News archive for the tag "remake"

The Magnificent Eleven casting news

27 February, 2010 (1 comment)

You may remember a short news update I posted last year about Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh’s new film The Magnificent Eleven, which is a soccer themed remake of The Magnificent More...

‘Ikiru’ remake under development by Dreamworks and Stone Village Pictures

14 January, 2009 (1 comment)

Whether this is connected to the rumoured Jim Sheridan remake of Ikiru, I do not know, but it has come to my attention that Stone Village Pictures, together with Dreamworks More...

“High and Low” remake moves forward: Mike Nichols to direct

29 October, 2008 (1 comment)

Variety reports that the often mentioned Hollywood remake of High and Low is once again moving forward, with Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, most recently Charlie More...


Two Seven Samurai remake news

13 September, 2008

Geeks of Doom has published an interview with screenwriter John Fusco, and although the bulk of the article centres on The Forbidden Kingdom, they also talk about the Seven Samurai More...

A Japanese ‘Seven Samurai’ remake released

23 July, 2008 (3 comments)

It seems that, somewhat out of the blue, a new Seven Samurai remake has been released in Japan. The film was directed by Hiroyuki Nakano (Samurai Fiction), and stars an More...

Daily Yomimuri review of ‘The Last Princess’

9 May, 2008

Daily Yomimuri Online has a review of the new Hidden Fortress remake The Last Princess. Unlike the Mark Schilling review that I linked to earlier today, the Daily Yomimuri piece, More...


The Last Princess: US premiere, The Three website

18 April, 2008

Before its official May 10 opening in Japan, The Last Princess (the new remake of The Hidden Fortress) will have its US premiere in Los Angeles. The screening will take More...

Filming of Weinsteins’ Seven Samurai to start this year?

16 April, 2008

The “Thompson on Hollywood” blog on Variety reports about the latest developments with The Weinstein Co.’s Asian Film Fund. While most of the article is about The Forbidden Kingdom, the More...

The Last Princess, plus more remakes in the horizon

29 March, 2008 (1 comment)

Nikkei News has an article on The Last Princess, which as most readers should by now know is a remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to be released in Japan More...


Second teaser trailer for The Last Princess

18 March, 2008 (1 comment)

The second teaser trailer for Shinji Higuchi’s remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, renamed The Last Princess, has been made available on the updated official website. The trailer is also More...

John Fusco on the ‘Seven Samurai’ remake

18 March, 2008 (6 comments)

Screenwriter John Fusco has talked briefly to SciFi Wire about the Seven Samurai remake that he is currently working on under the Weinstein Co. He is quoted in the article More...

The Last Princess theme song announced

14 March, 2008 (1 comment)

Famed Japanese rocker Tomoyasu Hotei, RnB singer Kreva and bassist Seiji Kameda (of the band Tokyo Jihen) have been announced as working on the theme song for Shinji Higuchi’s remake More...


The Hidden Fortress has full trailer, becomes “The Last Princess”

10 February, 2008 (13 comments)

Shinji Higuchi’s remake of Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress now has a full trailer, available on the official website, as well as at YouTube. The trailer seems to put into question More...

Hidden Fortress remake has a teaser trailer

12 January, 2008 (1 comment)

The Hidden Fortress remake now has a teaser trailer that can be viewed on the official website. It of course doesn’t reveal all that much about the finer details, but More...

Hidden Fortress remake poster and website

21 December, 2007 (3 comments)

The first poster for the Shinji Higuchi directed remake of The Hidden Fortress, set for release in Japan on May 10, 2008, has been posted online. As a fresh, and More...


Japan Times review of Morita’s Sanjuro

9 December, 2007

Japan Times has a review of Tsubaki Sanjuro by Mark Schilling. Schilling gives the movie 3 out of 5 stars, summing it up with: ‘A four-word review of “Tsubaki Sanjuro” More...

Tsubaki Sanjuro: first review

2 December, 2007 (7 comments)

Yoshimitsu Morita’s remake of Sanjuro opened in Japan yesterday, and Daily Yomiuri online has already posted a review. As the title of the review (”Kurosawa remake avoids worst scenario”) suggests, More...

Variety on “The Hidden Fortress” remake

30 October, 2007 (2 comments)

Variety has an article about the new Hidden Fortress remake that was announced by Toho. The article adds the following to what we already know: In a departure from the More...


An Akira Kurosawa remake roundup

29 October, 2007 (12 comments)

Since many of you can’t probably keep up with all the Kurosawa remakes that are happening at the moment, I decided to compile a list of titles in planning or More...

‘The Hidden Fortress’ remake

29 October, 2007 (2 comments)

Tokyo Graph reports that a remake of The Hidden Fortress is on its way. Directed by the special effects specialist turned director Shinji Higuchi, the movie will star Jun Matsumoto, More...

Weinsteins launch an Asian film fund – Seven Samurai remake mentioned

7 August, 2007 (2 comments)

Just when you thought that all those rumours about the planned Seven Samurai remake had died down and disappeared, Reuters writes that the Weinstein Company has launched a $285 million More...


Remake of “High and Low” in the works

2 August, 2007

This apparently broke almost a month ago, but somehow it went past my radar — a TV remake of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku) is in More...

First teaser trailer for the Tsubaki Sanjuro remake

29 July, 2007 (10 comments)

The first teaser trailer for the new remake of Tsubaki Sanjuro has been made available online. The 30 second clip shows a few scenes that are familiar from Kurosawa’s original. More...

3rd Tsubaki Sanjuro poster

13 July, 2007 (1 comment)

The official website for the forthcoming Japanese Tsubaki Sajuro remake has posted a third poster. This time the poster depicts Mutsuta’s wife and daughter on the background, with a somewhat Mifune-like expression on the lead actor Yuji Oda’s face. Whether he gets it right is up to you to decide… Once again, thanks for the heads-up go to Twitch.


Tsubaki Sanjuro poster #2

2 June, 2007 (4 comments)

The second poster for Yoshimitsu Morita’s remake of Kurosawa’s Tsubaki Sanjuro has been made available on the movie’s official website. Here it is: A bigger version can be seen at the official site. As the poster points out, the film is to be released on December 1st. Thanks to Twitch for the heads-up.

‘Ikiru’ to be adapted on TV

10 May, 2007 (3 comments)

The Japanese television network TV Asahi is reportedly currently filming a TV remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic 1952 movie Ikiru. Production of the television drama, which stars the popular kabuki More...

Tsubaki Sanjuro poster

25 April, 2007 (5 comments)

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here is the first Tsubaki Sanjuro poster for the Japanese remake that will open later this year: A bigger version can be seen More...


‘Sanjuro’ (2007 remake) trailer on March 3rd

28 February, 2007 (4 comments)

According to Variety, the first trailer for Yoshimitsu Morita’s Sanjuro will be playing during screenings of the Genghis Khan biopic ‘The Blue Wolf: To the Ends of the Earth and More...

A Jim Sheridan remake of ‘Ikiru’ for 2008?

25 February, 2007 (12 comments)

There is an IMDb page for a 2008 Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot) movie that appears to be a remake of Kurosawa’s Ikiru. I More...

Sanjuro remake has a website

16 December, 2006

Twitch, the film website that is especially interested in non-mainstream movies, reports that the upcoming remake of Kurosawa’s Sanjuro now has a website. It is all in Japanese, but in case you are interested, you can find it here. As the website is copyrighted for 2007, I take it to be rather recent.


Sanjuro press conference

14 November, 2006 (7 comments)

Toho held a press conference on Sunday for the new Sanjuro remake, which has already started filming and is to be released in Japan in December 2007. Very little new More...

Zhang Ziyi’s proposed role in the ‘Seven Samurai’ remake

7 June, 2006 (1 comment)

Guardian Unlimited’s film section adds to the ‘Seven Samurai’ rumours by noting that Zhang Ziyi “is reportedly interested in playing the part of a peasant girl who hides from bandits More...


 
 

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