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Will Cell Phone get a Hollywood remake?
by javabeans
There’s a lot of news out currently about the thriller Cell Phone, mostly because of its theatrical release this week. Reportedly, licensing negotiations are under way for a Hollywood...
Tags: Hollywood, Park Yong-woo, remakes, Uhm Tae-woong
City Hunter comes to U.S. television (maybe)
by javabeans
This seems a bit… odd. Jung Woo-sung (The Good, The Bad, The Weird) has been cast in a Korean-Japanese co-production… of an adaptation a Japanese manga… in a multi-season drama...
Tags: adaptations, Jung Woo-sung, remakes
“To Heaven” becomes “To the Hospital”
by javabeans
What will they remake next? It's not just songs, or movies, or television dramas anymore -- now it's MUSIC VIDEOS. (What next, commercials?) The music video for veteran kpop ballad...
Tags: Kim Haneul, Lee Byung-heon, remakes
Hollywood to remake another Korean film
by javabeans
Hollywood is remaking Oldboy. Unlike other failed Chungmuro-to-Hollywood remakes, this one carries a lot more cachet -- production is in talks with Steven Spielberg to direct, and Will Smith to...
Tags: Hollywood, Park Chan-wook, remakes
“First Love” to be remade in China
by javabeans
Choi Su-jong, Lee Seung-yeon, and a young Bae Yong-joon Another remake of an old kdrama is in the works, this time the 1996 series that brought Bae Yong-joon to fame, First...
Tags: Bae Yong-joon, Choi Su-jong, remakes
U.S. remaking My Name Is Kim Sam-soon
by javabeans
My Name Is Kim Sam-soon (aka My Lovely Sam-soon), the super-popular 2005 drama that made Kim Sun-ah and Hyun Bin into household names, is being given the Hollywood treatment and remade...
Tags: Hollywood, Hyun Bin, Kim Sun-ah, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon, remakes
Auditions for “Friend” pick up steam
by javabeans
It was announced a while ago that 2001's successful film Friend, starring Jang Dong-gun and Yoo Oh-sung, is getting the television drama treatment by MBC (is this the golden age...
Tags: Friend, Hyun Bin, Kim Min-joon, remakes
“Boys Before Flowers,” aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango
by javabeans
I'm a little late to this info, but this news gets me excited. And apprehensive. But excited! So the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango has been made into an anime...
Tags: adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango, j-doramas, remakes
Japan’s Sassy Girl
by javabeans
The U.S. is already planning to remake the hit 2001 Jeon Ji Hyun-Cha Tae Hyun movie My Sassy Girl, but so are the Japanese. And they've selected their lead, 27-year-old...
Tags: j-doramas, remakes
“P.S. I Love You” vs. “The Letter”
by javabeans
I know I cannot be the only person to have noticed the similarities. When I first started seeing ads for the new Hilary Swank movie P.S. I Love You,...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, Park Shin-yang, remakes