2011 Movies

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Unknown’s Jaume Collet-Serra Directs Red Circle Remake

By Nick Martin | Feb 19, 2011 | Movie News (0) Comment

Jaume Collet-Serra | Red Circle

Unknown‘s director Jaume Collet-Serra locked to direct Red Circle, a remake of the 1970 Alain Delon crime thriller Le cercle rouge. Johnnie To was previously set up to direct the same.

The thriller ‘Unknown,’ starring Liam Neeson, opens this weekend, gets its international premiere in Berlin today and Deadline reported that the film’s director Jaume Collet-Serra was making a deal to direct Red Circle remake. Based on the 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville-directed ‘Le Cercle Rouge,’ the script for the remake is being written by Steven Knight (Eastern Promises).

Collet-Serra is also at the center of a Warner Bros deal for Harker, a possible franchise he will direct that relates to vampire hunter Jonathan Harker character from Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ produced by Leonardo DiCaprio among others.

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Cannes 2009: Johnnie To’s Vengeance Trailers, Photos and Poster

By Fiona | May 17, 2009 | Cannes Film Festival, Movie Posters, Movie Trailers (2) Comment

Johnnie To’s Vengeance Photo

Hong Kong-director Johnnie To’s revenge drama “Vengeance” has been shown in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival today.
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A father comes to Hong Kong to avenge his daughter, whose family was murdered. Officially, he’s a French chef. Twenty years ago, he was a killer…

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