“Ugh got teary eyed on this. Congratulations team #KitaKita and #CintuItuButa! Can’t wait to watch this Indonesian remake shot in Busan, Korea!

Look Tonyo Empoy and Lea Alex.

“Watch the trailer for the Indonesian remake of KITA KITA! The Pinoy blockbuster hit #KitaKita, starring Alessandra de Rossi and Empoy, now has an Indonesian version! ‘Cintu Itu Buta’ (Love is Blind). Opens October 10 in Indonesia.”

Tsika at Intriga

Maris, namundok matapos maeskandalo kay Anthony

Ito ang post ni Direk Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo sa kanyang FB page kahapon, Linggo kasama ang buong trailer ng pelikula na hango sa Indonesian version.

Ang indie film na Kita Kita nina Empoy Marquez at Alessandra de Rossi na produced ng Spring Films ang nakakuha ng highest gross in terms of box office taong 2017 at hanggang ngayon ay wala pang tumatalo rito.

Lumibot na sa maraming bansa ang Kita Kita at isa ito sa dahilan kung bakit nagka-ideya ang Indonesian producer na gawan ito ng remake at sa Busan, Korea naman ang location nito.

Ang Kita Kita nina Empoy at Alessandra ay sa Sapporo, Japan kinunan at napasama sa 12th Osaka Asian Film Festival in March 2017.

Samantala, may sini-share rin si direk Sigrid na mensahe para sa kanya mula kay Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr.

“Short Notes on Remakes of Filipino films . Very rarely heard of Filipino films being given a non-Filipino treatment by a foreign film production. If copying or mimicking is the highest form of flattery, this seems more like it, a practice we often see of East Asian films being offered Hollywood make-over more often than not. That, we rarely encounter an originally-produced Filipino film treated the same.

“Thus, I am really pleased when I heard that Sigrid Andrea P. Bernardo’s highly successful romantic comedy film, an independent when it was released in 2017 (shown last year at FACINE 25), KITA KITA [I see you], had been remade in Indonesia - it will be premiered in a week or two in Indonesia - following the same storyline (Bernardo is credited as the original writer) in Rachmania Arumita’s CINTU ITU BUTA [love is blind].

“Is it not amazing? One thing, original Filipino stories even when unique to Filipino life and culture, can resonate in other people’s lives when it celebrates the human spirit.

“The one last time this happened, as far as I can remember, was way back in 2004 with the release of Yam Laranas’s horror movie on domestic violence, SIGAW [lit. shout] was remade in 2008 as a Hollywood movie which Laranas himself directed from another group of writers’ script, as THE ECHO.”