Question: "When a Killer Calls" was released un 2006 to  coincide with the theatrical release of a remake directed by who?

Context articles: Bara (film)
The babysitter and the man upstairs
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
Walter Mitty
Escape to Witch Mountain
Confession of a Child of the Century
When a Killer Calls
Air Bud (series)
Astro Boy: The Video Game
When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)

Bara (Kannada: ಬರ English: Drought ) is a 1982 Kannada film directed and produced by M. S. Sathyu.
 It is based on the story written by U. R. Ananthamurthy.
 The film starred Ananth Nag, C. R. Simha and Loveleen Madhu in lead roles.
 The film won many laurels upon release including the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Kannada for its script of an incisive analysis of the socio-political situation in a drought affected district.
 The film went on floors in 1980 and made its theatrical release in 1982.
 The Hindi version of the film "Sookha" was released in 1983.
 However, unlike the Kannada version, the film couldn't get a theatrical release, and was shown on Doordarshan.
The babysitter and the killer upstairs — also known as the babysitter or the sitter — is an urban legend that dates back to the 1960s about a teenage girl babysitting children who receives telephone calls from a man who continually asks her to "check the children".
 The basic storyline has been adapted a number of times, including in "Foster's Release" (1971), "O Anjo da Noite" (1974), "The Sitter" (1977), "When a Stranger Calls" (1979), "When a Stranger Calls Back" (1993), "When a Stranger Calls" (2006) and "Amusement" (2008).
 ("The Sitter", "When a Stranger Calls", and "When a Stranger Calls Back" are all the work of director Fred Walton.)
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is an episodic video game series that serves as a prequel to the film adaptation of the DC Comics graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
 The game was originally announced for release in downloadable installments on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Network, and Xbox Live Arcade, with the first one released on March 4, 2009 to coincide with the film's theatrical release.
 The second episode was released on July 30, 2009.
Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", first published in "The New Yorker" on March 18, 1939, and in book form in "My World and Welcome to It" in 1942.
 Thurber loosely based the character, a daydreamer, on his friend Walter Mithoff.
 It was made into a film in 1947 starring Danny Kaye, with a remake directed by and starring Ben Stiller released in 2013.
Escape to Witch Mountain is a science fiction novel written by Alexander H. Key in 1968.
 It was adapted into a film of the same name by Walt Disney Productions in 1975, directed by John Hough.
 A remake directed by Peter Rader was released in 1995. "
Race to Witch Mountain", a new telling directed by Andy Fickman, opened theatrically March 13, 2009.
Confession of a Child of the Century (French: La confession d'un enfant du siècle ) is a 2012 French drama film directed by Sylvie Verheyde.
 The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
 In spite of its selection to the prestigious festival, the films gains notoriety as being the lowest grossing US theatrical release of 2015.
 It generated only US$74 from its one-week, one theater theatrical run.
 The film is an adaptation of Alfred de Musset's 1836 autobiographical novel of the same name.
When a Killer Calls is a 2006 direct-to-DVD horror film distributed by B movie company The Asylum.
 The film was released in February 2006, to coincide with the theatrical release of the 2006 remake of "When a Stranger Calls", as both movies have near-identical plots.
The Air Bud film series (also known as Air Buddies or Disney Buddies) is an American film franchise based on a sports-playing Golden Retriever named Buddy, portrayed by Air Buddy.
 The franchise began in 1997 with the theatrical release of "Air Bud", followed by the theatrical release of "" in 1998.
 The rest of the films in the series were released in direct-to-video form.
 The "Air Buddies" or "Disney Buddies" spin-off series began in 2006 with the release of "Air Buddies" and it focuses on the adventures of Buddy's talking Golden Retriever puppies.
Astro Boy: The Video Game is an action video game based on the 2009 CG animated film of the same name.
 The game was originally released in Japan on October 8, 2009 for the PlayStation Portable to coincide with the Japanese theatrical release on October 10, 2009.
 It was later released on the same system as a downloadable game in North America on October 14, 2009, but then received a retail version of it and a port to the PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and Wii which was released on October 20, 2009 to coincide with the North American theatrical release of the film on October 23, 2009.
 It features the voices of Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell, reprising their film roles.
When a Stranger Calls is a 2006 American horror film directed by Simon West and written by Jake Wade Wall.
 The film stars Camilla Belle, Brian Geraghty, Katie Cassidy and Clark Gregg.
 Camilla Belle plays a babysitter who starts to receive threatening phone calls from an unidentified stranger, played by both Tommy Flanagan and Lance Henriksen.
 The film is a remake of Fred Walton's 1979 horror film of the same name which became a cult classic for its legendary opening 20 minutes which this remake extended to a feature length film.