Technologies in Minority Report "Minority Report" were handled by Jeff Boortz of Concrete Pictures, who said "the whole idea, from a script point of view, was that the advertisements would recognize you -- not only recognize you, but recognize your state of mind. It's the kind of stuff that's going on now with digital set-top boxes and the Internet." Nokia designed the phones used by the characters, and Lexus paid the producers $5 million for the rights to design the futuristic "Mag-Lev" cars. All told money raised through product placement accounted for $25 million of the film's $102 million production budget. Spielberg described his
The Ring (2002 film) "B-" on an A+ to F scale. A sequel, "The Ring Two", was released in 2005. A short film titled "Rings" was also released in 2005, and is set between "The Ring" and "The Ring Two". Another sequel, also titled "Rings", was released in 2017. The Ring (2002 film) The Ring (stylized as the ring) is a 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Brian Cox. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film "Ring" based on the novel of the same name by Koji Suzuki. "The