Killer attracts Disney

Disney film producers has bought the rights to do a remake of the Polish movie Kiler, which topped Poland's box office charts at the end of last year. Janusz Machulski, who wrote and directed Kiler, said Disney is paying $600,000 (pounds 375,000) to do the English-language remake.

Kiler, which translates to killer in English, was made for only 1.8 million zloty (pounds 312,500). It has sold more than 1.6 million tickets in Poland and earned 13.4 million zloty since its release in October. The film is a comedy about a kind-hearted taxi driver who is mistaken for a serial murderer.

- AP, Warsaw