Benny Chan Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/benny-chan/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 07:00:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Benny Chan Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/benny-chan/ 32 32 When Cell Phone (Movies) Attack! https://staging2.theplaylist.net/when-cell-phone-movies-attack-20080827/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/when-cell-phone-movies-attack-20080827/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:36:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=10243 We thought it would never happen, but oh yes, the day has finally come. You all know what we are talking about, the studios execs over at WB are remaking the deeply gripping 2004 drama, “Cellular,” into a Chinese-language movie, currently titled “Connected.” It’s just a tad ironic, when one contemplates that a massive amount of Hollywood material is usually cribbed from the Hong Kong film industry (i.e. “The Departed”).

The 2004 film starring fraboy-du-jour Chris Evans centered around a kidnapped woman (Kim Basinger) who makes a call to a random mobile phone seeking help, and has the hilarious tag line of “If the signal dies, so does she.” The movie was critically acclaimed (well, not really) for its unflinching portrait of the rampant kidnappings and cellular phone oriented rescues in today’s urban America.

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