According to the news, Austrian director Michael Haneke will direct a Hollywood remake of his most controversial movie, 1997 horror movie Funny Games, starring Tim Roth and Naomi Watts. The drama/thriller was a success at the European box office being nominated for the Palme D’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival in France, however Funny Games barely registered in the US. The movie it’s about two well educated young men who approach a family on vacation. The two are, apparently, friends of the neighbours, but soon the family will be imprisoned and tortured in a very violent way, which the viewers are forced mostly to imagine. For the remake it is unknown whether Haneke will turn again to the violent scenes of torture that characterised the original movie, Funny Games.

According to Variety, Lionsgate is picking up Cruise/Wagner-produced remake The Eye and is in talks with one of favourite Hollywood celebrity Jessica Alba to star. The movie will be directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud and the shooting will start this winter.
Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner persuaded Paramount to buy the remake rights in 2002 and got close to making it there with Renée Zellweger till she dropped out.

Hollywood remake of Asian horror film, The Eye is a thriller about “a cornea transplant recipient who sees disturbing images in the mirror that send her on a quest to find out what happened to the eye’s previous owner.” The original thriller was made in Hong Kong directed by Thai brothers Danny and Oxide Pang.

According to the news, Warner Bros is pushing the much anticipated Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘Conan The Barbarian’ sequel in production. After over a year of planning and thinking of a sequel, the movie will be directed by the Wachowski brothers while the film is being backed by Warner Bros.

The shooting will start in early 2007 and it seems that for ‘Conan The Barbarian’ sequel the Wachowski brothers ( ‘The Matrix’ ) with Boaz Yakin are keen on adapting the original movie to a more contemporary theme.