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Valette Hears CALL

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2006
Source: Variety

Alcon Entertainment, Intermedia, and Kadokawa Pictures USA have set French director Eric Valette to helm the English-language remake of Japanese supernatural horror film CHAKUSHIN ARI (ONE MISSED CALL).

Andrew Klavan adpated the original screenplay which centers on a college student whose friends begin receiving cell phone messages from the future in which they hear themselves being murdered. When she receives her own death message, the coed has three days to change her fate.

Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Jennie Lew Tugend and Lauren C. Weissman and Scott Kroopf will produce.



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Comments/Responses
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• Apr 27, 2006, 04:13am •
Oh Bother!! I haven`t seen the original, so I can`t really judge, but come on!Come on!! Its like Scream, the Ring, and almost every other teen horror film that`s been done to death. Stop with the phone call, death set ups! I`m really getting tired of them and I can`t be the only one.

• Apr 27, 2006, 07:16am •
Scream was about a supernatural ghost that killed people???dam i must have been watching the wrong movie all the time. and actually this one has alot more deaths the the ring. i seen the original and it was OK.

• Apr 27, 2006, 07:38am •
I'm tired of all of these Asian remakes. The Grudge, The Ring...Sorry, but there's nothing even remotely scary about these films. Most of them are like live-action anime; the visuals are great, but there's no story underneath. All flash; no substance. If I want to watch amazing visuals, I'll watch "The Promise." That movie at least has a good story. Horror movies should be scary like The Exorcist, The Omen, or The Changling. I'll even take a good old fashioned slasher film like Halloween over these bland Asian ripoffs.

• Apr 27, 2006, 08:41am •
Don't judge the movie without watching it!

It's freaking awesome. It takes all of the common places that japanese horror has been using and takes them to a different place.

It's directed by Takashi Miike, so anyone who knows his works, knows that he's not your regular movie director.
He spoofs all of his counterparts in a way that's not funny and uses cliches to make a much better and scarier movie than the rest of the jap directors.

• Apr 27, 2006, 08:42am •
Oh... I forgot: Yes, the western remake will be a piece of crap.

• Apr 27, 2006, 11:05am •
You people are hilarious. "Enough with (insert idea here)!" "I'm tired of all these (insert video game to movie adaptation here)!" Get a grip kids. It's just a movie. You don't even know if it will be good or not. You might watch it and think it's the greatest movie ever made. Your incessant whining about movies being made is ridiculous. SHUSH!

• Apr 27, 2006, 12:09pm •
thank you vaporman. i have been trying to get this through to everyone for awhile lol. but im glad to hear someone else is speaking out about this.

killerville • Apr 27, 2006, 01:34pm •
I have 2 questions for you vaporman87, and Im not trying to be arguementative- only to perhaps better understand the other side of this debate:

1. What in your opinion would be a more appropriate discussion on a website that reports stories about movies in development?

2. Are you equally annoyed when people respond positively to one of these articles about a movie in development?

Im genuinely interested to know.

paule • Apr 27, 2006, 02:32pm •
we need bad horror movies, it allows unknown actors to get a start and become potentially famous. for example jennifer aniston after leprechaun and a nose job.

• Apr 27, 2006, 02:38pm •
Indeed killerville. But I suppose someone has the right to complain about people complaining if they want. All I know is that I am not going to complain about a specific film such as this as much as I am going to complain about the genre. I am sick and tired of it. They keep getting worse and worse and even more boring. Dark Water was horrific and more like cinematic melatonin. They are starting to get fewer and further between and that seems like good news to me. PG-13 is a curse to the movie industry (unless you're out to make big bucks) and I would really like to see more intense flicks that actually have a good grounding in entertainment and storyline. I find myself looking to cheesey B-horror flicks for innane entertainment (i.e. Monstar Man, Venom) and even then I find myself unfulfilled in the realms of entertainment. I was excited about An American Haunting till I found out it was PG-13. Blah! Take me back to the days of Xtro and Prince of Darkness

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