The plane! The plane! (Photo: GreenCine Daily)

GreenCine Daily's David Hudson caused a little bit of a stir yesterday afternoon, illuminating an interesting parallel between Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film Pulse and the trailer for Dimension Films' upcoming remake. Without getting too much into the PR symbiosis at hand (which just sounds like publicists being publicists), Hudson noted that the Dimension trailer appears to lift and alter Kurosawa's original, stunning plane crash scene for its own end.

While there is no question the shots are Kurosawa's, there was some concern that this might be a little more skulduggerous rip-off than American distributor Magnolia Pictures might be comfortable with. Alas, Magnolia chief Eamonn Bowles told The Reeler this morning that Dimension had the go-ahead to use the original sequence in its trailer.

"Is it scandalous? No," Bowles told me. "Is it weird? Yes. You don't usually see the same shot used in a different film, but that was something [Dimension] had come to us about. And we said yes. There isn't anything scandalous about it at all. ... It's flattering that a larger-budget, wide-release American film would end up using the money shot from the modestly budgeted Japanese original."

So there you have it. Now we can go back to collecting wagers for our other controversy, the When Will Craig Brewer Be Paid? office pool. Send your dates posthaste.