Well, Warner Brothers is remaking Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.

http://www.collider.com/2010/01/06/warner-brothers-acquires-remake-rights-to-park-chan-wooks-sympathy-for-mr-vengeance/

WHY?

link didnt work, but got it anyway…god thats awful

WHY?

follow the money … Park’s oeuvre will become wildly popular too!

Hm, not sure why the link wouldn’t work.

As for the money…eh, it also has to do with the fact that releasing it here wouldn’t be good enough because the average movie goer won’t read subtitles and can’t watch movies that don’t explain every little tiny action on screen.

It’s sad. I hate it.

remakes dont diminish the quality of the originals if anything they usually enhance it

ive actually just noticed that being extremely prevalent. i got my ghetto ass friend to watch La Haine and he loved it but when i gave him Brick, and Sid & Nancy, he was actually confused by the endings of both of them. I found them unbelievably simple to understand. People just dont get ambiguity

Den: If anything I think remakes are disrespectful to the original for they take the directors original vision and skew it to a hollywood-ized vision that is distinctly different.

WHY?

Because the original is so bad. I’m all for remaking bad films to improve them.

Finally Hollywood gets it right.

lol

remakes are disrespectful to the original

I have to speak up for Park here – there is nothing better for an artist than to have an older original work mass produced – it will bring a huge new audience for work he has long since “let go of”.

I understand the purist point of view expressed here, but think about the artist in this case and you might understand how this is a good thing.

How much did he net on this film – anyone know?

WW b.o. gross $1954937. I don’t think it will result in much of a bump to Park, Robert. It’s headed for the multiplex zone. Something to do while eating junk food. How many new converts has Haneke enjoyed after Funny Games II: Assault On The Hamptons?

Funny Games II: Assault on The Hamptons

haha I missed that one….

Dunno, but that gross suggests he didn’t make much – what he is hoping for is that a producer will fund his next film.

HAHAHA nice KJ!

Since we’re talking moolah, how’s this for shits and grins- Limits Of Control worldwide: $1,446,950. Dude has never covered the spread, yet he keeps on truckin’. How does he do it?

“Well, Warner Brothers is remaking Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.”

who the fuck gives a shit?

“I understand the purist point of view expressed here, but think about the artist in this case and you might understand how this is a good thing.”

hey all, let’s re-edit and re-make Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Night of Counting the Years, When the Tenth Month Comes and Travelling Players for the fuckin’ mainstream audiences to watch them!!!
oh yeah, definitely a brilliant idea!!!

But there is no twisted violence or incest in those films, Dimitris!!!

Dim: call the dir and ask how he/she feels about that…lol

KJ: that’s pathetic – is that up-to-date info or for what period of time?
does validate fredo’s point that the blockbusters pay the freight

“But there is no twisted violence or incest in those films”

oohhh, yes, i forgot:

remakes = controversial themes = teenage “Americanized” blood-fest = films without any excessive topics are either forgettable or secondary….

Robert

From Box Office Mojo:

TOTAL LIFETIME GROSSES
Domestic: $426,688 29.5%
+ Foreign: $1,020,262 70.5%
= Worldwide: $1,446,950

DOMESTIC SUMMARY
Opening Weekend: $55,820
(#41 rank, 3 theaters, $18,607 average)
% of Total Gross: 13.1%

Widest Release: 27 theaters
Close Date: July 2, 2009
In Release: 63 days / 9 weeks

hey why try to make something original when you can remake a movie, win oscars(departed) and make money…

but i heard some time ago that they were planning on remakin jsa too…but instead to do it on the korean-border they would make it on the mexican-usa border haha even called joint security america lol

and there were some rumours that charlize theron would starr in a lady vengeance remake

but both projects seem to be dead now
i hope that the same will happen to sympathy for mr vengeance

i tried to insert 2 links but i didnt manage…so here they are:
http://www.screendaily.com/spanish-actress-fernandez-gets-lead-role-in-jsa-remake/4028258.article

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20220

KJ: okay that’s BO only I guess
wonder what DVD added – still pretty bad

Oh, man, dvd sales ain’t pulling that film from the deficit column. No way.

We here at The Auteurs forget that there is a whole other layer to these obscure entities we so enjoy.

lmao:

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE

Domestic Total Gross: $45,289
Distributor: Tartan Release Date: August 19, 2005
Genre: Foreign Running Time: 2 hrs. 9 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: N/A

Domestic: $45,289 2.3%
+ Foreign: $1,909,648 97.7%
= Worldwide: $1,954,937

“Because the original is so bad. I’m all for remaking bad films to improve them.

Finally Hollywood gets it right."

my thoughts exactly

Can’t get enough of these threads bewailing American remakes of foreign films, sight unseen! More, more!