Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
One of the questions I’ve been asked a lot, even before the Dreamworks remake of THE RING hit theaters last year, is “When is the original Japanese RINGU going to come out in this country?” Well, thanks to a press release I got today, I can finally answer that question.
On March 4th, Dreamworks is releasing a special edition DVD of THE RING, complete with “an all-new 15-minute experimental short film created by director Gore Verbinski exclusively for the video release [that] reveals more electrifying secrets that bring viewers closer to understanding the mystery of ‘the Ring.’” On the same day, they’re releasing the original Japanese film as well with a newly-created digital film-to-video transfer and a new 5.1 Japanese Digital Surround mix.
One of the things that Roy Lee, the head of Vertigo Entertainment, has always wanted to do is to use American remakes to create a market for the release of Asian films on DVD and VHS. It’s hard to get most average filmgoers to pick up a foreign language film, especially if they don’t know what it is. Lee, one of the producers of the American RING, believes that remakes only fuel an audience’s desire to see the original, and on March 4th, Dreamworks is going to put that theory to the test. Personally, I look forward to picking up both releases.
"Moriarty" out.
