“Miramax Films and MGM will co-produce a contemporary retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s classic saga of dueling Japanese warlords, ‘The Seven Samurai,’” Yahoo News reports. “One of the Japanese auteur’s most influential films, ‘Seven Samurai’ first got the Hollywood treatment in 1960 when John Sturges remade the picture as a Western, ‘The Magnificent Seven,’ with an all-star cast, including Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.” Miramax Films co-chairman

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