Intermedia steps up pact with Kadokawa Deal includes production of up to six films in two years BERLIN -- Intermedia has expanded and extended its agreement with Kadokawa Pictures USA in a deal that calls for the two to develop, finance and produce up to six films in the next two years. Deal follows a co-development, co-production and co-financing deal for the English-language remake of Japanese thriller "One Missed Call" (2003).
Intermedia's Munich-based parent, Internationalmedia, called the deal "a crucial step" in its recently announced foray into genre films.
Kadokawa has "a strong track record in identifying, producing and marketing hit genre movies, and I look forward to continuing this tradition," said Scott Kroopf, prexy of Intermedia Motion Picture Group.
Creative Artists Agency brokered the deal, which will see Summit Entertainment handling foreign sales with distribution through I.S. Film Distribution, Summit and Intermedia's joint marketing and distribution venture. www.variety.com/ www.screendaily.com/
(as always, lovingly lifted from Hitman's posts on kfccinema forums)
French filmmaker Eric Valette ("Malefique") is set to direct the English-language remake of Japanese supernatural horror hit "Chakushin ari" ("One Missed Call") for Warner Bros. Pictures, reports Variety.
Screenplay was adapted from the original Japanese film by Andrew Klavan, and the story revolves around 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.
Lensing is set to begin this summer. In Japan, "One Missed Call" has become a lucrative franchise, with a third installment now in production.
The OMC-remake has gotten some of the poorest reviews I've seen for any remake whatsoever. It's current rating on IMDB is 2.6, which should indicate
it's right outside the "Bottom 100". On Rottentomatoes it's rated 0 %!