Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s OLDBOY Remake Project is Dead
GeekTyrant — ... Looks like fans of the film and manga Oldboy can rejoice at the fact that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith will not longer be remaking the film and Americanizing the Japanese manga. According to our friends at Latino Review the DreamWorks Oldboy film project is dead. Spielberg and Smith were developing the new film from the comic book, not the original film. Not that it really matters, chances are it would have never been as good as the film. I love the original Oldboy film, and I never saw the ...

Oldboy remake dead again?
Filmstalker — ... and more than that started seriously talking about moving it forward, I was flabbergasted. However it looks like it's another western remake attempt that is hitting the brakes rather rapidly, and the sanitised Hollywood story of Oldboy looks set to die a death once again, and that's a good thing. Of course for now it's complete rumour and there's no guarantee that this is correct, but a "source" is calling the production over, and over big time. It would seem, according to Latino Review , that the two production companies behind the film just couldn't agree on the project and ...

Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s Old Boy is No More
/Film — ... Could it be? Have our prayer’s been answered? Latino Review is reporting that Steven Spielberg’s Old Boy starring Will Smith is dead in the water. Apparently Dreamworks and original Korean production studio were working together to get the rights to the manga, but the two couldn’t reach an agreement, and Dreamworks simply walked away. Spielberg’s film was to be an ...

Smith/Spielberg OLDBOY Is Dead
We Are Movie Geeks — ... My sigh of relief echoed down my vacant and cold street moments ago as I read that the much talked about Will Smith and Steven Spielberg OLDBOY re-imagining is no more. Latino Review reports that Dreamworks and Mandate could not come to terms and the project is essentially scrapped! This could not be better news for our beloved Park Chan-Wook directed revenge with hammers and live squids flick. I remember months back when the project was first broached, I was in shock and disgust that Spielberg would even think of such a remake. Why? Then again, why is the ...

GOD TAKES A HAMMER TO THE OLDBOY REMAKE
CHUD.com - A Movie Website and SO MUCH MORE. - Articles - News — Here's some great news to start out your Tuesday: the American remake of Oldboy is dead. At least that's what Latino Review is reporting , saying that Dreamworks and Mandate Pictures couldn't come to an agreement and they've killed the project. You'll remember that Steven Spielberg was set to direct Will Smith in one of those "It's not really a remake because we're going back to the source material" remakes of Park Chan-Wook's modern classic of vengeance, Oldboy . Fans were, understandably, up in arms that Hollywood's most sanitary leading man and most gee-whiz director ...

Will Smith's Oldboy Remake Is Dead
Cinema Blend News — ... that the planned Oldboy remake, starring Will Smith and directed by Steven Spielberg, was hitting some snags on its way to becoming a horrible reality. Now, according to Latino Review , the final blow has been struck. DreamWorks and Mandate Films couldn't reach an agreement as they worked on getting the rights to the original manga, and the project died as a result. Fans of the original Park Chan-wook film are probably dancing in the streets with joy right now, and who can blame them? A seminal, violent, envelope-pushing film was going to be remade as some kind of ...

Hurray! The Spielberg/Will Smith Remake Of 'Oldboy' Is Dead
:: The Playlist :: — ... Now today, according to the guys at Latino Review (we'll choose to believe this particular report mostly because we want to desperately), the brutal revenge remake is dead in the water. This is good news. Not because Park Chan-Wook's film is too sacred to be touched (but really, it's an excellent film, why bother trying to improve on it? there's very few flaws), but because the story is rather harrowing and any version that Spielberg and Smith would have made would have been largely sanitized to the point of being unrecognizable. We won't spoil the plot if you've never seen ...

'Oldboy' is Dead! Long Live the Real 'Oldboy!'
Cinematical — Looks like our friends over at Latino Review have some news on that Oldboy remake that would have starred Will Smith with Steven Spielberg directing. The initial news about this remake (which actually would have been an adaptation of ...

Ding Dong The New Oh Dae-su Is Dead!
my new plaid pants — ... That is, the version of Oh Dae-su that woulda been played by Will Smith and directed by Steven Spielberg. Via LR: "This just in… You know that OLDBOY remake…well it wasn’t really a remake, anyway (which is a terrible idea by the way) Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were suppose to do a film that was based on the Japanese manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya and NOT FROM THE ORIGINAL FILM. At the time DreamWorks was in the process of securing the rights along with MANDATE, until NOW. According to a ...

Awww hell nah, Oldboy remake is DEAD!
Oh No They Didn't! — ... until NOW. According to a trusted source… …It’s DEAD! Mandate and DreamWorks didn’t see eye to eye therefore DreamWorks has apparently walked away. No Spielberg. No Will Smith. THEY’RE OUT! Hence no stateside Oldboy remake…or whatever you want to call it. Stay tuned as more develops. You guys should be hearing something in the trades soon. Source Great news. I suppose it's likely that someone else will try ...

Have Spielberg And Smith Said Goodbye To Remaking Old Boy?
Film School Rejects — ... Latino Review is reporting that the oft-discussed, continuously derided pairing of director Steven Spielberg and megastar Will Smith on a remake of Park Chan-wook’s film ...

Spielberg-Smith 'Oldboy' Movie Not Happening
Get The Big Picture — ... The nearly always reliable Latino Review says it has heard that DreamWorks and Mandate (studio/prouction company) couldn't come to an agreement on what to do with the original Japanese manga and have folded up their tents. Probably the best thing that could happen, really. More on that in a minute. ...

Steven Spielberg & Will Smith ‘Oldboy’ Remake Dead!
Screen Rant — ... According to a “trusted source” at Latino Review (and these guys are usually pretty spot-on when it comes to this sort of stuff), Spielberg and Smith’s ...

How Tough Is Hollywood?? Sometimes Even Will Smith And Steven Spielberg Can't Get A Project Going...
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — ... OLDBOY project has gone belly-up, according to Latino Review. The film was being spun as a direct adaptation of Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya's manga as opposed to a "remake" of Park Chan-wook's 2003 feature film. According to a trusted source… …It’s DEAD! Mandate and DreamWorks didn’t see eye to eye therefore DreamWorks has apparently walked away. No Spielberg. No Will Smith. THEY’RE OUT! Hence no stateside Oldboy remake…or whatever you want to call it. ...says LR HERE . The 2003 film is available in various permutations ...

Steven Spielberg's Oldboy Remake Is Dead
MovieWeb: News — It seems that fans against the remake of a beloved Chan-wook Park film may have finally gotten their wish. Latino Review is reporting that the ...

WILL SMITH NO LONGER GETTING JIGGY WITH OLD BOY
FilmDrunk.com — ... Good news, everyone: I wrote a humorous headline.  Also, Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s planned remake of Park Chan-Wook’s Old Boy (actually, if you want to get technical, it was supposed to be a separate adaptation of the original Old Boy manga) is dead.  Latino Review reports that it was killed when Dreamworks couldn’t come to a deal with Mandate pictures. ...

WILL SMITH NO LONGER GETTING JIGGY WITH OLD BOY
FilmDrunk: Movie news you can make fun of — ... Good news, everyone: I wrote a humorous headline.  Also, Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s planned remake of Park Chan-Wook’s Old Boy (actually, if you want to get technical, it was supposed to be a separate adaptation of the original Old Boy manga) is dead.  Latino Review reports that it was killed when Dreamworks couldn’t come to a deal with Mandate pictures. ...

We are spared the sight of Will Smith eating a live octopus
Mad About Movies — ... November 10, 2009, 11:24AM According to this giddy report , the rumored remaked of Chan-Wook Park's "Oldboy" to be directed by Steven Spielberg and star Will Smith is kaput, thanks be to Chaplin or Fritz Lang, or whoever it is who serves as the god of movies.

Will Smith and Steven Spielberg Abandon Oldboy Remake?
Film Junk — ... that Spielberg wanted to produce a remake of Chan-wook Park’s Oldboy with Will Smith in the lead role, people freaked out insisting that this is one masterpiece that should not be marred by a watered-down American retelling. Eventually Smith tried to re-assure people by saying that it would be a different movie based on the original manga instead, but still doubts persisted. This week the folks over at Latino Review bring a pleasant update on the project indicating that it may be officially kaput. According to their source, Dreamworks and international distributor Mandate ...

One For The Good Guys
Crazy Days and Nights — ... According to Latino Review, the proposed production of OLDBOY which was going to star Will Smith and be directed by Steven Spielberg is dead. Done. Not going to happen. This is one that I am very happy to see get dropped into the trash can for all eternity. I don't understand why every foreign movie of any consequence has to be Americanized. Can't we just enjoy the original? Are we that awful that we need everything in English and Hollywooded to death? Can we not enjoy what other directors have done and just leave it alone? ...

Steven Spielberg/Will Smith OLDBOY Adaptation Dead; Smith Considering FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
Collider» - Collider.com — ... Latino Review reports the joyous news that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith’s planned adaptation of the Japanese manga Oldboy, which was turned into the intensely-loved 2003 film of the same name, will not be happening.  Mandate Pictures and DreamWorks pictures were to secure the rights together, they didn’t see eye-to-eye, walked away, and that breeze you felt was every film lover breathing a sigh of relief. ...

American Remake of Oldboy Dead?
Row Three — I’m sure many of us around here will be glad to hear this news: The planned Steven Spielberg-Will Smith Oldboy film has halted in the negotiation stages and now looks as if it’s dead in the water. Latino Review has a tip that production companies Mandate and DreamWorks didn’t see eye to eye and negotiation for the rights to the manga by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya (on which Park Chan-Wook’s incredible Korean film was based) have fallen through and DreamWorks is walking away from the project. ...

Smith-Spielberg “Oldboy” Remake “Dead”
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews — ... Now, though, if you were worried about a mega-budgeted PG version of “Oldboy,” you’re in luck. Latino Review (thanks to ...

Oldboy Remake Dead
Pajiba — ... Sometimes the best news isn’t about what’s going to happen, but rather about what’s not going to happen. For once, the wheels of the remake machine have ground to a halt. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, according to the good people at Latino Review , Steven Spielberg’s Oldboy remake has died in the womb. Apparently, Spielberg and Dreamworks have been meeting with Mandate, the Korean production studio to get the rights sorted out, and it just ain’t happenin’. It was reportedly to be a direct adaptation of the original manga comic, and not a remake of Park Chan-wook’s 2003 ...

Oldboy Not Getting the Hollywood Treatment
Vulture — ... Will Smith and Steven Spielberg's planned remake of Oldboy has been bludgeoned to death with a hammer, according to Latino Review. Now the only way to see Will Smith eating a live octopus is to join the papparazzi. [Latino Review] ...

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WTF: Clashing News, Wolves and All
Movies — ... • Ring the victory bells. LatinoReview reports that both Steven Spielberg and Will Smith have pulled out of the long-in-development American version of Oldboy (which was supposedly not a direct remake since it was adapting the original Japanese comic instead of the Korean movie), so it looks like this project is dead once again. ...

"Oldboy" Remake Gets Decapitated
Dark Horizons - General Feed — ... The planned Hollywood remake of Chan-wook Park's acclaimed cult Korean revenge thriller "Oldboy" has been killed off reports Latino Review. ...

Early Buzz: 'Kick-Ass,' Franco on soaps, Alan Moore and more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — ... the 40th anniversary of John Cassavetes ' Shadows . - John Cusack talks about 2012 and his other work in this Q&A . - Rotten Tomatoes looks at Cusack's best-reviewed movies . - Here's a pic from Sofia Coppola 's new flick that just might revive the career of Stephen Dorff . - Check out the new faces of Scrubs . - Winona Ryder has been cast in a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. - Several blogs are saying there won't be an Oldboy remake after all. (This is probably a good thing.) - Thanks to Jay and ...

Spielberg/Smith OLD BOY is no more
THE BEAT — ... Those of you savvy enough to predict that a planned adaptation of the OLD BOY manga by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith was extremely unlikely to ever be made were RIGHT ON THE MONEY, Latino Review reports. Yet, it was not the idea of two of America’s mosst beloved filmmakers adapting a bleak, violent, disturbing tale of torture and vengeance that did the movie in, but a squabble between Mandate Films and DreamWorks. ...

Spielberg’s Adaptation of Oldboy Rumored Dead
Inside Pulse Movies — ... Latino Review claims that a trusted source tells them that the Steven Spielberg film Old Boy is dead in the water. Fans around the world of Koren director Park Chan-Wook’s film Oldboy rejoice in unison. ...

The week in geek: will Kick-Ass be a 21st-century superhero?
Film | guardian.co.uk — ... Elsewhere this week, it looks as if the much-publicised Steven Spielberg/Will Smith remake of Park Chan-wook's violent and beguiling Oldboy is dead in the water. Latino Review says a "trusted source" tells them that Spielberg's Dreamworks studio has been unable to reach an agreement with Mandate, the owners of the rights to any remake, and has therefore walked away. ...

AICN Anime - The Art of Osamu Tezuka, Minor Updates on Voltron and Cowboy Bebop, Yamato, Prince Planet and More...
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. — ... guys set the standard for genre cinema then blow it apart with the next release. Voltron is going to be a challenge, but should really push boundaries both in special FX and more importantly in the story department. Does this mean that the project is being completely rebooted? Things are early right now, but it is safe to say we have heard and read some really fresh approaches to the material. So yeah, we have pressed the reset switch on the front of the old NES. * According to the Latino Review, the Steven Spielberg and Will Smith adaptation of the Old Boy manga is no ...