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Miramax remaking French hit 'Tell No One'

Published Thursday, Apr 30 2009, 10:50 BST | By Simon Reynolds

Miramax remaking French hit 'Tell No One'

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Miramax and Focus Features have secured the remake rights to French thriller Tell No One.

Luc Besson's EuropaCorp company agreed a deal with the US studios to develop an English language version of Guillaume Canet's 2006 film, which centres on a widower who receives an email leading him to discover that his wife is still alive.

According to Variety, filming has been tentatively scheduled to start in early 2010 with Kathleen Kennedy (Jurassic Park, Munich) serving as producer.

Tell No One, based on Harlan Coben's bestselling novel, proved a box office hit on its initial release in France, taking in $22 million. The film also grossed $6 million in the US and $2.3 million in the UK.