Director John Woo's cult classic A Better Tomorrow, which launched the career of Holly-wood star Chow Yun-fat, is to be remade with a South Korean director at the helm, a press report said earlier this week.
The remake of the violent 1986 gangster flick will be directed by Marathon director Jeong Yoon-chul in a joint production between a Hong Kong and a South Korean film company.
The lead roles will be played by Hong Kong heartthrob Louis Koo and South Korean pop sensation Rain.
The movie will cost about HK$100 million, and filming will begin this summer.
An Indian film maker has attempted a world record by canning a 74-minute feature, loosely based on Terri Schiavo's protracted right-to-die battle that gripped the US in last year, in two hours and 14 minutes.
Engineer-turned-director Jayaraj's Atbhutam (Wonder) tries to capture the drama of mercy-killing in the last hour-and-a-half in the life of a US-based Indian-born playwright suffering from pancreatic cancer.
"I felt the power. When we started at 11.46am, the whole crew was in a trance ... a kind of invisible energy, and we were just flying from one sequence to the other," 45-year-old Jayaraj said.
"And just before the last shot, when my associate said `one shot left', that's when I realized my dream is finally going to come true."
The record-breaking attempt has been forwarded to the Guinness Book of World Records with authentification letters from Ramanaidu, himself listed as the most prolific producer with 110 films, and an official from the Andhra Pradesh state government, who were present for filming.
In Oscar related news, there will be no F-word but the word "bitches" will be heard during the first-ever rap performance at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
At the request of the Academy and ABC, which is broadcasting the Oscars show, the authors of best song nominee It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp from the film Hustle and Flow have substituted less offensive words for the song's profanity-laced lyrics.
"As long as the Academy approves it, it's cool," said rapper Jordan "Juicy J" Houston, a member of Three 6 Mafia, which wrote the song for the film and will be performing it.
But he said he was told by actress Taraji Henson, who performed the song in the film, and will sing onstage with Three 6 Mafia, that the show's producers were letting her keep the word "bitches," in the chorus.
In another flap over lyrics a few years ago, actor-comedian Robin Williams performed a cleaned-up version of Blame Canada the off-color, Oscar-nominated song from the animated South Park movie during the Oscars telecast.
It is up for several honors at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, but already Crash has taken first prize when it comes to most curse words in a move nominated for a best picture Oscar, according to the movie watchdog group FamilyMediaGuide.com
The organization, which tracks incidents of profanity, sex, violence and tobacco use in films, reported that Crash wins the most profane award with 182 expletives, including 99 utterances of the F-word.
Brokeback Mountain ranked second among best picture nomi-nees with 92 curse words, followed by Munich with 22, according to FamilyMediaGuide.com.
The record for most profanities in a film to win the best picture Oscar is held by the Vietnam War drama Platoon, with 329. The Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter is second with 208.
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