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...Asian movie fans know The Ring as Ringu. This ghost-story thriller?about a journalist drawn into the video mystery at the peril of herself and her family?was a novel, then a TV film, and then a big-screen scare show. It attracted huge audiences from Tokyo to Thailand and spawned both a sequel (Ringu 2) and a prequel (Ringu 0). The film's life-after-death continued past its theatrical release: who wouldn't want to see the killer-video movie on video...
...Hollywood is always fishing around for new ideas, and Asia is proving to be a well-stocked pond. DreamWorks has bought remake rights to the Korean romantic comedy My Sassy Girl, and Tom Cruise's production company picked up the Hong Kong-Thai ghost thriller The Eye. Dark Water, another spectral-effects drama from Ringu author Koji Suzuki and director Hideo Nakata, is to be remade in Hollywood, possibly with Nakata himself at the helm...
...meeting of East and West already means good business. Will it mean good movies? Maybe not, if The Ring is any indication. Gore Verbinski's U.S. version works best when it copies directly from the original: the suspenseful opening and the hackle-raising climax (with a ghost crawling out of a TV set). Still, the Japanese film dragged at just 90 minutes; the remake is nearly two hours, with a trawler of new red herrings introduced but little value added. And though Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive) carries the film in the role originated by Nanako Ma-tsushima...
...just be the “feel-good” play of the weekend. Sara O’Brien ’04 stars in the challenging role of Helen and Iris McQuillan-Grace plays the role of Annie Sullivan, who is haunted by her brother’s ghost and her own experience with blindness. The play is produced by Jenny Marsh, Joanna Marsh and Shira Simon. The show will be performed Oct. 24, 25 and 26 in the Adams Pool Theater...
Thora Birch, an actress best known for her roles in American Beauty and Ghost World, will play Murray in the movie...