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'Cellular' gets a return call in China


August 26, 2008 Hollywood has been mining Asian movies for ideas for years -- but now an American studio is remaking one of its home productions as a Chinese-language movie with local partners. Warner China Film HG -- a joint venture between Warner Bros. and China's state-run China Film Group and Hengdian Group -- is releasing "Connected" on Sept. 25, remaking the 2004 New Line Cinema thriller "Cellular," starring Kim Basinger. Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," the horror films "The Ring" and "The Grudge" are based on Asian movies -- "Connected" is billed as the first Chinese remake of a Hollywood movie.

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