SYDNEY POLLACK - GERMAN OSCAR WINNER SET FOR HOLLYWOOD REMAKE

The Oscar-winning Best Foreign Film is to be remade as a Hollywood movie. German espionage drama THE LIVES OF OTHERS will be revamped as an English-language film with moviemakers SYDNEY POLLACK and ANTHONY MINGHELLA coming together for the project. Pollack tells trade paper Daily Variety, "We would just desperately love for that film to be something that reaches more people. "We haven't gotten locked into making it yet, but we're working hard at trying to get it going." The film's writer/director FLORIAN HENCKEL VON DONNERSMARCK claimed Oscar gold on Sunday night (25FEB07).