Remakes

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The Ring (2002) (USA) is a remake of the 1998 Japanese movie Ringu (dir. Hideo Nakata, left). The plots are almost identical. Before the release of the Miramax remake directed by Gore Verbinski, Ringu was the highest grossing movie in Japan which made $6.6 million, but the remake mae $8.3 million in the first two weeks alone. After this phenomenal success, Nakata made two more of his films remade: Dark Water, and Chaos.

Also, more famously, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) was remade as a spaghetti western in the form of The Magnificent Seven (1960). Hollywood has the capability to transform original, foreign films into blockbusters which, in most cases, surpass the popularity and profit of the originals.