'Oldboy' Remake Apparently Not Actually a Remake
cinematical.com 11/21/2008 — Those of us who were in a moderate panic following the news of a planned Steven Spielberg-Will Smith remake of Chan-wook Park's singular Oldboy can rest a tiny bit easier. According to Will Smith, who's out and about promoting Seven Pounds , the ...

GOD TAKES A HAMMER TO THE OLDBOY REMAKE
chud.com 28 days ago — It's dead!!!

'Oldboy' Remake Goes Forward Despite Legal Issues
getthebigpicture.net 6/29/2009 — The updating of Oldboy by Steven Spielberg and Will Smith was notorious enough already, but now comes news that the rights to the original film may not even be available. The plans for the remake are still moving forward despite some efforts by Futabasha, the original publisher of ...

Lawsuit Won’t Slow Down Spielberg’s Oldboy Remake
slashfilm.com 6/29/2009 — When it was first announced that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were developing an American remake of Chan-wook Park ’s Oldboy with the screenwriter of Poseidon , fans freaked out. It was later revealed that the remake wasn’t a ...

Will Smith Says Oldboy Won’t be Adaptation of Chan-wook Park’s Film
filmschoolrejects.com 11/21/2008 — I just came home from a red carpet premier of Will Smith’s film Seven Pounds . The star is on a tour of premiers promoting the film which is starting to create some major Oscar buzz for the already twice-nominated superstar. I’ll have ...

Oldboy Remake Faces Legal Hullabaloo
filmschoolrejects.com 6/30/2009 — It seems that lawyers are teaming with movie fans in an attempt to derail the proposed Oldboy remake. Put simply, the publishers of the original manga are suing the producers of the 2003 film, claiming that they had no right to pimp out the rights to whomever they pleased. Adding to the ...

Smith/Spielberg OLDBOY Is Dead
wearemoviegeeks.com 28 days ago — My sigh of relief echoed down my vacant and cold street moments ago as I read that the much talked about Will Smith and Steven Spielberg OLDBOY re-imagining is no more. Latino Review reports that Dreamworks and Mandate could not come to terms and ...

Lawsuit Could Stop Spielberg’s Oldboy Remake
slashfilm.com 6/19/2009 — When it was first announced that Steven Spielberg and Will Smith were developing an American remake of Chan-wook Park ’s Oldboy with the screenwriter of Poseidon , fans freaked out. It was later revealed that the remake wasn’t a ...

Oldboy director brings new-look vampire to Cannes | Entertainment | Film
reuters.com 5/12/2009 — Jon Herskovitz and Kim Junghyun SEOUL (Reuters) - The South Korean director who won the Grand Prix at Cannes for "Oldboy," a film that gave revenge a fresh and disturbing twist, returns to the festival with a movie that puts another Hollywood staple, ...

Will Smith's Oldboy Stalled Due to Legal Fight Over Rights
firstshowing.net 6/19/2009 — Is it just mere coincidence that both the Akira and Oldboy remakes have been stopped? It was only late last year when DreamWorks announced that they were going to remake Park Chan-wook's Oldboy with Steven Spielberg and Will Smith. Fans were ...