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latex, and rabbit fur models (to be rotated during filming), one jointed 24-inch model of the same materials for the New York scenes, and a small model of lead and fur for the climactic plummeting-down-the-Empire-State-Building shot. At least two armatures have survived – one believed to be the original made for the test footage – and are owned by Peter Jackson and Bob Burns. In 2009, one sold for £121,000 ($200,000) at Christie's in London. Kong's torso was streamlined to eliminate the comical appearance of the real world gorilla's prominent belly and buttocks. His lips, eyebrows, and nose were fashioned
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latex, and rabbit fur models (to be rotated during filming), one jointed 24-inch model of the same materials for the New York scenes, and a small model of lead and fur for the climactic plummeting-down-the-Empire-State-Building shot. At least two armatures have survived – one believed to be the original made for the test footage – and are owned by Peter Jackson and Bob Burns. In 2009, one sold for £121,000 ($200,000) at Christie's in London. Kong's torso was streamlined to eliminate the comical appearance of the real world gorilla's prominent belly and buttocks. His lips, eyebrows, and nose were fashioned
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State Building. At age 12, he attempted to recreate the film using his parents' Super 8 mm film camera and a model of Kong made of wire and rubber with his mother's fur coat for the hair, but eventually gave up on the project. "King Kong" eventually became his favorite film and was the primary inspiration for his decision to become a filmmaker as a teenager. He read books about the making of "King Kong" and collected memorabilia, as well as articles from "Famous Monsters of Filmland". Jackson paid tribute to the 1933 film by including Skull Island as the
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crew gave a name to his fictitious species "Megaprimatus kong" and suggested it to have evolved from the "Gigantopithecus". Kong was the last of his kind. He was portrayed in the film as being quite old, with graying fur and battle-worn with scars, wounds, and a crooked jaw from his many fights against rival creatures. He is the dominant being on the island, the king of his world. But, like his film predecessors, he possesses considerable intelligence and great physical strength; he also appears far more nimble and agile. This Kong was scaled to a consistent height of tall on
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sequel to the 1933 film was released nine months after the first film's release. In the early 1960s, RKO had licensed the King Kong character to Japanese studio Toho and produced two King Kong films, "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (a crossover with the "Godzilla" series) and "King Kong Escapes", both directed by Ishirō Honda. In 1976, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis released his version of "King Kong", a modern remake of the 1933 film, which was followed by a sequel in 1986 titled "King Kong Lives". In 2005, Universal Pictures released another remake of "King Kong", directed by Peter Jackson.
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King Kong (1933 film) King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was developed from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City on March 2, 1933, to rave reviews. It has been ranked by Rotten Tomatoes as the greatest horror film of all time and the thirty-third greatest film of all time. The film tells of a huge, ape-like creature dubbed Kong
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could not support them. Skull Island Skull Island is the name most often used to describe a fictional island that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" and later appearing in its sequels, the two remakes, and any other King Kong-based media. It is the home of the eponymous King Kong and several other species of creatures, mostly prehistoric and in some cases species that should have been extinct long before the rise of mammalian creatures, along with a primitive society of humans. In the 1962 film "King Kong vs. Godzilla" and the 1967 film "King Kong Escapes", the
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Skull Island Skull Island is the name most often used to describe a fictional island that first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" and later appearing in its sequels, the two remakes, and any other King Kong-based media. It is the home of the eponymous King Kong and several other species of creatures, mostly prehistoric and in some cases species that should have been extinct long before the rise of mammalian creatures, along with a primitive society of humans. In the 1962 film "King Kong vs. Godzilla" and the 1967 film "King Kong Escapes", the comparable islands are called
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film's story, the special effects in the completed footage impressed Cooper and inspired him to hire O'Brien to create the effects in Cooper's 1933 film "King Kong". Some of the dinosaur scenes planned for "Creation" were even rewritten and inserted into the "King Kong" script, and most of the dinosaur models O'Brien used in "Kong" had originally been made for "Creation". The shipwreck sequence in "Kong"'s companion production, "The Most Dangerous Game", was reportedly salvaged from this film. In the 2-disc 2005 DVD release of "King Kong", the surviving footage from "Creation" is shown, as well as a dramatization of
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Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. released a Kong reboot film titled "" in 2017 which was directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and is the second installment of a shared universe called the MonsterVerse, which started with Legendary's reboot of " Godzilla". King Kong (1933 film) King Kong is a 1933 American pre-Code monster adventure film directed and produced by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack. The screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman and Ruth Rose was developed from an idea conceived by Cooper and Edgar Wallace. It stars Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert Armstrong, and opened in New York City
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King Kong (2005 film) King Kong is a 2005 epic monster adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Peter Jackson. A remake of the 1933 film of the same name, the film stars Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, and, through motion capture, Andy Serkis as the title character. Set in 1933, "King Kong" tells the story of an ambitious filmmaker who coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island. There they encounter Kong, a legendary giant gorilla, whom they capture and take to New York City. Filming for "King Kong" took place in
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have a thematic score rather than background music, the first to mark the use of a 46-piece orchestra, and the first to be recorded on three separate tracks (sound effects, dialogue, and music). Steiner used a number of new film scoring techniques, such as drawing upon opera conventions for his use of leitmotifs. "King Kong" opened at the 6,200-seat Radio City Music Hall in New York City and the 3,700-seat RKO Roxy across the street on Thursday, March 2, 1933. The film was preceded by a stage show called "Jungle Rhythms". Crowds lined up around the block on opening day,
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is often used in commercial culture, for example in advertisements for Coca-Cola and Energizer Batteries. A New York insurance company used clips from the film to persuade people of the hazards of city life. A two-part Energizer Battery commercial had the 1933 Kong himself contracted by a rival battery corporation (SuperVolt) to get rid of the Energizer Bunny for them. The commercials were done in black-and-white, and used cleverly edited 1933 Kong sequences (possibly combined with new computer-generated Kong shots). The concluding second-part had Kong cornering the Bunny on the roof of a New York City building, complete with biplanes
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different film at the same time, creating the final composite shot in the camera. It was used in the climactic scene where one of the Curtiss Helldiver planes attacking Kong crashes from the top of the Empire State Building, and in the scene where natives are running through the foreground, while Kong is fighting other natives at the wall. On the other hand, the Williams process, invented by cinematographer Frank D. Williams, did not require a system of colored lights and could be used for wider shots. It was used in the scene where Kong is shaking the sailors off
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King Kong King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling an enormous gorilla, that has appeared in various media since 1933. The character first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" from RKO Pictures, which received universal acclaim upon its initial release and re-releases. A sequel quickly followed that same year with "The Son of Kong", featuring Little Kong. In the 1960s, Toho produced "King Kong vs. Godzilla" (1962), pitting a larger Kong against Toho's own Godzilla, and "King Kong Escapes" (1967), based on "The King Kong Show" (1966–1969) from Rankin/Bass Productions. In 1976, Dino De Laurentiis produced a modern
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in a "4 Film Favorites: Colossal Monster Collection". At present, Universal holds worldwide rights to "Kong"'s home video releases outside of the US, Australia and New Zealand. All Universal's releases only contain their earlier, 100 minute, pre-2005 restoration. However, in the UK, Warner Home Video released the film digitally and on Blu-Ray & DVD in early 2017. The Blu-Ray contained the same contents as the US release, but unfortunately for the DVD, that was based on the first Disc of the 2-Disc DVD release. The 1933 "King Kong" film and character inspired imitations and installments. "Son of Kong", a direct
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rivalry between Bluto and Popeye for Olive Oyl. Bluto became an ape, which Miyamoto said was "nothing too evil or repulsive". He would be the pet of the main character, "a funny, hang-loose kind of guy." Miyamoto has also named "Beauty and the Beast" and the 1933 film "King Kong" as influences. Although its origin as a comic strip license played a major part, "Donkey Kong" marked the first time that the storyline for a video game preceded the game's programming rather than simply being appended as an afterthought. Unrelated "Popeye" games would eventually be released by Nintendo for the
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on what was to become his best remembered film, "King Kong" (1933). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) proposed giving O'Brien an Oscar for his technical effects on "King Kong" but Willis insisted that each of his crew receive an Oscar statue also, which the AMPAS refused to do, so O'Brien refused to accept the Oscar award for himself. This act of refusing his Oscar hurt O'Brien's reputation as a "player" in the Hollywood establishment, forever making him a semi-"outsider" in the industry, and thus whose own film proposals were seldom taken seriously. One of O'Brien's crew
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woman Olive Oyl, although Nintendo's original intentions to gain rights to "Popeye" failed. Bluto evolved into an ape, a form Miyamoto claimed was "nothing too evil or repulsive". This ape would be the pet of the main character, "a funny, hang-loose kind of guy." Miyamoto also named "Beauty and the Beast" and the 1933 film "King Kong" as influences. "Donkey Kong" marked the first time that the formulation of a video game's storyline preceded the actual programming, rather than simply being appended as an afterthought. Miyamoto had high hopes for his new project, but lacked the technical skills to program
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miniature rear projection was used in the scene where Kong is trying to grab Driscoll, who is hiding in a cave. The scene where Kong puts Ann in the top of a tree switched from a puppet in Kong's hand to a projected footage of Ann sitting. The scene where Kong fights the snake-like reptile in his lair was likely the most significant special effects achievement of the film, due to the way in which all of the elements in the sequence work together at the same time. The scene was accomplished through the use of a miniature set, stop-motion
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pit lizard from the 1933 "King Kong" film was used as a reference for the Skullcrawlers. They were also inspired by a number of other cinematic creatures; Vogt-Roberts stated, "That creature, beyond being a reference to a creature from the 1933 film, is also this crazy fusion of all of the influences throughout my life – like the first angel from "Evangelion", and No-Face from "Spirited Away", and Cubone from "Pokémon"." At the same time of the announcement of Vogt-Roberts as director, the studio also announced that Tom Hiddleston would play the lead role. For a time both, J. K.
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ride in Orlando since Kongfrontation closed down 14 years earlier at Universal Studios Florida. It officially opened on July 13, 2016. A man-eating giant gorilla is featured in Henry Rider Haggard's "The Holy Flower", a 1915 novel. King Kong King Kong is a giant movie monster, resembling an enormous gorilla, that has appeared in various media since 1933. The character first appeared in the 1933 film "King Kong" from RKO Pictures, which received universal acclaim upon its initial release and re-releases. A sequel quickly followed that same year with "The Son of Kong", featuring Little Kong. In the 1960s, Toho
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4-minute overture added, bringing the overall running time to 104 minutes. "King Kong" was also, somewhat controversially, colorized in the late 1980s for television. In 1984, "King Kong" was one of the first films to be released on LaserDisc by the Criterion Collection, and was the very first movie to have an audio commentary track included. Criterion's audio commentary was by film historian Ron Haver; in 1985 Image Entertainment released another LaserDisc, this time with a commentary by film historian and soundtrack producer Paul Mandell. The Haver commentary was preserved in full on the FilmStruck streaming service. "King Kong" had
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Los Angeles, California. O'Brien and Delgado's first work together was in "The Lost World", but they became famous a few years later with "King Kong" (1933). Kong's success was followed by a failed sequel, "Son of Kong". They also worked on movies like "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1935) etc. Marcel Delgado Marcel Delgado (January 16, 1901 in Coahuila, Mexico - November 26, 1976 in Los Angeles, California) was a sculptor and model-maker. His technique revolutionized the stop motion film industry. He is best known for his work on the 1933 film "King Kong". Prior to Delgado, stop motion models
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screams distracting and excessive. The film opened nationwide on April 10, 1933, and worldwide on Easter Day in London, England. It was re-released in 1938, 1942, 1946, 1952 and 1956. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on , with a weighted average rating of 9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""King Kong" explores the soul of a monster – making audiences scream and cry throughout the film – in large part due to Kong's breakthrough special effects." On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 12
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was used in the several scenes in which Kong grasps Ann. A non articulated leg was created of materials similar to the hands, mounted on a crane, and used to stomp on Kong's victims. The dinosaurs were made by Delgado in the same fashion as Kong and based on Charles R. Knight's murals in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. All the armatures were manufactured in the RKO machine shop. Materials used were cotton, foam rubber, latex sheeting, and liquid latex. Football bladders were placed inside some models to simulate breathing. A scale of one-inch-equals-one-foot was
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issue #887 of the French magazine "Pif gadget" in 1986. As well in 1996, both the 1933 film and "King Kong vs Godzilla" were briefly featured in the hardcover manga about Eiji Tsuburaya's life called "Eiji Tsuburaya: The Film Director Who Made Ultraman" (円谷英二 : ウルトラマンをつくった映画監督). This book was published by Shogakukan. Avatar Press featured King Kong as a metaphor for Willis O'Brien in "Cinema Purgatorio" #4. As well in 1948 (from February to July), Edmond-François Calvo illustrated a King Kong comic strip in France that ran 13 issues. However, this King Kong was just a regular-sized gorilla. In 1954,
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King Kong (1976 film) King Kong is a 1976 American monster film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition. Featuring special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, it stars Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin and Jessica Lange in her first film role. The film was the fifth highest-grossing film of 1977 according to box office statistics compiled during its release by "Variety". It won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was
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frequently berates him for his failure to get results. Meanwhile, a submarine commanded by Carl Nelson arrives at Mondo Island, where the legendary King Kong lives. Much like the original 1933 film, the giant ape gets into an intense fight with a Gorosaurus and a sea serpent. He falls in love with Lt. Susan Watson (played by Linda Jo Miller) following in the footsteps of Ann Darrow from the 1933 film. Dr. Who subsequently goes to Mondo Island, abducts Kong and brings him back to his base at the North Pole. Kong is hypnotized by a flashing light device and
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and tells them to spread his message to the world. He tells them "I am with you always" as the scene shifts to a modern city to show that Jesus still watches over his followers. Many of the film's intertitles are quotes (or paraphrases) from Scripture, often with chapter and verse accompanying. Cast notes A giant gate built for this film was later used in the 1933 film "King Kong", and was among the sets torched for the "burning of Atlanta" in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). Other sets and costumes were re-used for the 1965 Elvis Presley film, "Harum
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films. After leaving Paramount, she signed deals with various film companies, being cast in her first horror film roles, in addition to many other types of roles, including in "The Bowery" (1933) and "Viva Villa" (1934), both of which starred Wallace Beery. For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film for which she is most identified, "King Kong" (1933). After the success of "King Kong", Wray made numerous appearances in both film and television, before retiring in 1980. Wray was born on a ranch near Cardston in the province of Alberta, Canada, to Mormon parents, Elvina Marguerite Jones,
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Jack Polito Jack Polito (born December 4, 1941) is an American animator who has worked in the film industry since the 1960s. He was inspired by the 1933 film "King Kong." Polito formed the animation company The Production House in 1980. Joachim "Jack" Polito was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1951, Polito's father took him to see the "King Kong" rerelease of the 1933 film. This experience inspired him to follow a career in animation and special effects. He graduated from West Catholic High School in Philadelphia in 1959. Polito played tennis all through high school, and was
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a cartoon called "A Fairy's Tale." They also helped animate "G.A.M.M.A. Force" which consisted of 13 half-hour cartoons. Jack Polito Jack Polito (born December 4, 1941) is an American animator who has worked in the film industry since the 1960s. He was inspired by the 1933 film "King Kong." Polito formed the animation company The Production House in 1980. Joachim "Jack" Polito was born in 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1951, Polito's father took him to see the "King Kong" rerelease of the 1933 film. This experience inspired him to follow a career in animation and special effects. He graduated
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who perishes in an attempt to possess a beautiful young woman (Wray). "King Kong" is especially noted for its stop-motion animation by Willis O'Brien and a groundbreaking musical score by Max Steiner. In 1991, it was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. A sequel quickly followed with "Son of Kong" (also released in 1933), with several more films made in the following decades. In New York Harbor, filmmaker Carl Denham, famous for making wildlife films in remote and exotic locations, charters Captain Englehorn's ship, the "Venture",
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The Most Dangerous Game (film) The Most Dangerous Game is a 1932 pre-Code adaptation of the 1924 short story of the same name by Richard Connell, the first film version of that story. The plot concerns a big game hunter on an island who hunts humans for sport. The film stars Joel McCrea, Leslie Banks, and "King Kong" leads Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong; it was made by a team including Ernest B. Schoedsack and Merian C. Cooper, the co-directors of "King Kong" (1933). The film was shot at night on the "King Kong" jungle sets. In 1932, a luxury
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film rights from RKO Pictures (the studio behind the 1933 film) because the King Kong character is held in the public domain. Jackson initially turned down the "King Kong" offer, but he "quickly became disturbed by the fact that someone else would take it over," Jackson continued, "and make it into a terrible film; that haunted me and I eventually said yes to Universal." At the same time, Jackson was working with Harvey Weinstein and Miramax Films to purchase the film rights of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", while 20th Century Fox was trying to hire him
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remake of the original film directed by John Guillermin. A sequel, "King Kong Lives", followed a decade later featuring a Lady Kong. Another remake of the original, this time set in 1933, was released in 2005 from filmmaker Peter Jackson. The most recent film, "" (2017), set in 1973, is part of Legendary Entertainment's MonsterVerse, which began with Legendary's reboot of "Godzilla" in 2014. A crossover sequel, "Godzilla vs. Kong", once again pitting the characters against one another, is currently planned for 2020. The character King Kong has become one of the world's most famous movie icons, having inspired a
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In 2018, a new book featuring another origin story written and illustrated by Devito was released called "King Kong of Skull Island". In March 2017, to coincide with the release of "", Titan Books released a novelization of the film written by Tim Lebbon and a hardcover book "The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island" by Simon Ward. Over the decades, there have been numerous comic books based on King Kong by various comic-book publishers. For details on this aspect of the character's print media appearances see King Kong (comics). In his first appearance in "King Kong" (1933), Kong
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its movie as long as it did not infringe on original elements in the 1933 RKO film, which had "not" passed into public domain. (Universal postponed their plans to film a King Kong movie, called "The Legend of King Kong", for at least 18 months, after cutting a deal with Dino De Laurentiis that included a percentage of box office profits from his remake.) However, on December 6, 1976, Judge Real made a subsequent ruling, which held that all the rights in the name, character, and story of King Kong (outside of the original film and its sequel) belonged to
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the stop-motion animation effects for the original "King Kong", was the special effects supervisor, albeit on a smaller budget. Pete Peterson, who worked with O'Brien on "Mighty Joe Young" and would again on "The Giant Behemoth", did most of the actual hands-on animation. O'Brien borrowed heavily from his previous films for the stop-motion special effects. The miniatures used for the trapdoor spider and the giant tentacled worm have been reported to be the same ones that were used in the now "Lost Spider Pit Sequence" from the original "King Kong" (1933). Biographers, however, dispute whether O'Brien saved his models, and
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on the 1925 fantasy adventure "The Lost World", based on the novel of the same name. The book and film featured dinosaurs, the basis for many future movies. He began work on a similar film known as "Creation" in 1931, but the project was never completed. Two years later, he produced special effects for the RKO 1933 film "King Kong" directed by Merian C. Cooper. Since then "King Kong" has not only become one of the most famous examples of a monster movie, but also is considered a landmark film in the history of cinema. The monster King Kong became
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film with a shot of Kong. The iconic scene in which Kong is on top of the Empire State Building was almost called off by Cooper for legal reasons, but was kept in the film because RKO bought the rights to "The Lost World". Overlapping with the production of "King Kong" was the making of "The Most Dangerous Game", which began in May 1932. Cooper once again worked with Schoedsack to produce the film. In the 1933 version of "King Kong", Cooper and co-director Ernest B. Schoedsack appear at the end, piloting the plane that finally finishes off Kong. Cooper
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first film to feature a giant monster running amok in civilization (the silent "The Lost World" was actually the first—although it featured a rampaging "Brontosaurus" rather than a non-science-based monster—but was rarely seen after its first release until the video and cable-TV booms of the 1980s); there are echoes of the original King Kong film in every giant-monster film that has been made since 1933. These include "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), "Godzilla" (1954) and "Jurassic Park" (1993). The dinosaur scenes from "King Kong" are referenced or mimicked in the three "Jurassic Park" films, especially the second film, ""
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the "premier film museum in the Los Angeles area, though it is not open to the public and has no regular hours." Notable contents include the last surviving 18-inch armature model used in the animation sequences of the original 1933 King Kong movie, costumes from several of the Republic Pictures serials of the 1940s, masks from several different movies made by special make-up effects creator Rick Baker, a 7-times Academy Award winner for makeup, and the original Time Machine from the George Pal film of the same name. The Smithsonian Institution has made several offers to acquire the King Kong
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some significant honors. In 1975, "Kong" was named one of the 50 best American films by the American Film Institute, and, in 1991, the film was deemed "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 1998, the AFI ranked the film #43 on its list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. American Film Institute Lists "King Kong" was re-released in 1938, 1942, 1946, 1952 and 1956; each time to great box office success. Stricter decency rules had been put into effect in Hollywood since
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the 1933 animated Mickey Mouse cartoon "The Pet Store" (also known as "Mickey and the Gorilla Tamer"). In the cartoon, the ape falls in love with Minnie Mouse and climbs to the top of a stack of boxes while holding her. Mickey and a group of birds, imitating the biplanes at the climax of "King Kong", defeat the ape. In the 1933 animated Mickey Mouse short film, "Mickey's Mechanical Man", Mickey's invention, a robot, is engaged in a boxing match against an ape known as "Killer Kong". In 1938, "King Kong" received its first re-release, although some shots, such as
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Darrow respectively. The script was co-written by Schoedsack's wife, Rose. This film marked a transition in the working relationship of Schoedsack and Cooper. After the film, Schoedsack only directed films, while Cooper produced them. Their partnership ended, however, in the late 1930s. In 1932, after filming "King Kong," Schoedsack worked on shooting for a film that was never completed called "Arabia". For this project, Schoedsack went to shoot on location in Syria. Another film was made in the "King Kong" franchise. Rose wrote the screenplay for the next film, "Son of Kong" which was released in 1933 by RKO. Schoedsack
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animation for Kong, background matte paintings, real water, foreground rocks with bubbling mud, smoke and two miniature rear screen projections of Driscoll and Ann. Over the years, some media reports have alleged that in certain scenes Kong was played by an actor wearing a gorilla suit. However, film historians have generally agreed that all scenes involving Kong were achieved with animated models. "King Kong" was filmed in several stages over an eight-month period. Some actors had so much time between their "Kong" periods that they were able to fully complete work on other films. Cabot completed "Road House" and Wray
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King Kong makes a brief cameo in the story "The Monster Maker" from "Baffling Mysteries" #15. Outside of these cameos and one-shot appearances, King Kong has been spoofed and has influenced other giant apes in comics for many years. These include: King Kong (comics) Throughout the decades King Kong has been featured in numerous comic book publications from numerous publishers. In 1933, RKO (the studio that produced "King Kong" and "The Son of Kong") created comic strips for each respective film in their press books. These strips were published by newspapers across the country weeks leading up to each film's
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the Top Ten lists of several critics, with Roger Ebert giving it four stars, and listed it as 2005's eighth best film. The film received four Academy Award nominations, for Visual Effects, Sound Mixing (Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek), Sound Editing, and Production Design, winning all but the last. "Entertainment Weekly" called the depiction of Kong the most convincing computer-generated character in film in 2005. Some criticized the film for retaining racist stereotypes that had been present in the 1933 film, though it was not suggested that Jackson had done this intentionally. "King Kong" ranks 450th on
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King Kong (comics) Throughout the decades King Kong has been featured in numerous comic book publications from numerous publishers. In 1933, RKO (the studio that produced "King Kong" and "The Son of Kong") created comic strips for each respective film in their press books. These strips were published by newspapers across the country weeks leading up to each film's release as part of a pre-release publicity campaign and were illustrated by Glenn Cravath. When "The Son of Kong" strip was published in Spain, it featured additional artwork not seen in the American strip by Tomas Porto. These were published in
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Kong: The Animated Series Kong: The Animated Series is an American-Canadian television series for children that follows King Kong, the monster of the 1933 film of the same name. "Kong" was created to compete with "", and first aired on BKN in 2000. In May 2001, Fox Kids began airing reruns of the first 13 episodes. Then, Jetix began airing reruns on September 9, 2005, in anticipation of the release of Peter Jackson's "King Kong". Additionally, two direct-to-DVD movies based on the series were released: "Kong: King of Atlantis", where Kong fights to save the mythic island from a vicious
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the whole family). This new "Kong" doesn't have the magical primeval imagery of the first "King Kong", in 1933, and it doesn't have the Gustave Doré fable atmosphere, but it's a happier, livelier entertainment. The first "Kong" was a stunt film that was trying to awe you, and its lewd underlay had a carnival hucksterism that made you feel a little queasy. This new "Kong" isn't a horror movie-it's an absurdist love story." Richard Schickel from "Time" wrote that "The special effects are marvelous, the good-humored script is comic-bookish without being excessively campy, and there are two excellent performances" from
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released on Blu-ray in Region B territories, although this disc is region-free and can work in any Blu-ray machine. To date, the only DVD appearance of this extra footage from the TV version is in the form of five deleted/extended scenes on the Region 2 release. King Kong (1976 film) King Kong is a 1976 American monster film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 film of the same name about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition. Featuring special effects by Carlo
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Posthumously, Wallace's most famous work would be one he never got the chance to see: Out of the many scripts he penned for RKO, Merian C. Cooper's "gorilla picture" had the most lasting influence, becoming the classic 1933 "King Kong". Wallace had written the initial 110-page draft for "King Kong" entitled "Kong" over five weeks, from late December 1931 to January 1932. The movie was initially to be called "The Beast", and this was the name of Wallace's treatment. "Kong", however, was rejected as the title for the film because it was too similar to another Cooper film, "", released
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as a memento, although it has never been found. In 1963, Cooper argued unsuccessfully that he should own the rights to "King Kong"; later in 1976, judges ruled that Cooper owned the rights to King Kong outside the movie and its sequel. Selznick left RKO before the release of "King Kong", and Cooper served as production head from 1933 to 1934 with Pan Berman as his executive assistant. In the 2005 remake of "King Kong", upon learning that Fay Wray was not available because she was making a film at RKO, Carl Denham (Jack Black) replies, "Cooper, huh? I might
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were superseded by digital compositing. Another technique that was used in combining live actors and stop-motion animation was rear-screen projection. The actor would have a translucent screen behind him where a projector would project footage onto the back of the translucent screen. The translucent screen was developed by Sidney Saunders and Fred Jackman, who received a Special Achievement Oscar. It was used in the famous scene where Kong and the "Tyrannosaurus" fight while Ann watches from the branches of a nearby tree. The stop-motion animation was filmed first. Fay Wray then spent a twenty-two hour period sitting in a fake
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the surface gauge was used in order to keep track of the stop-motion animation performance. The iconic fight between Kong and the "Tyrannosaurus" took seven weeks to be completed. O'Brien's protegé, Ray Harryhausen, who would work with him on several films and become one of the most prominent stop-motion animators in Hollywood, stated that O'Brien's second wife noticed that there was so much of her husband in Kong. The backdrop of Skull Island seen when the Venture crew first arrive was painted on glass by matte painters Henry Hillinck, Mario Larrinaga and Byron C. Crabbé. The scene was then composted
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Chrome steel Chrome steel is one of a class of non stainless steels such as AISI 52100, En31, SUJ2, 100Cr6, 100C6, DIN 5401 which are used for applications such bearings, tools, drills and utensils. The term was used in both the original 1933 version, as well as the 2005 remake, of "King Kong". When Kong is brought to New York City, he is chained with this metal on stage. The impression given by the film from Carl Denham to the audience is that the "chrome steel" has some unique properties of having a higher tensile strength than "normal steel" which
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but he eventually settled on a gorilla/carpenter/girlfriend love triangle that mirrored the rivalry between Bluto and Popeye for Olive Oyl. Bluto was replaced by an ape, which Miyamoto said was "nothing too evil or repulsive", and the pet of the main character. Miyamoto has also named "Beauty and the Beast" and the 1933 film "King Kong" as influences for the character. Miyamoto used "donkey" to convey "stubborn" in English; the name "Donkey Kong" was intended to convey "stubborn ape" to the American audience. When he suggested this name to Nintendo of America, he was laughed at, but the name stuck.
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February 3, 2002, Roger Ebert included "King Kong" in his "Great Movies" list, writing that "In modern times the movie has aged, as critic James Berardinelli observes, and 'advances in technology and acting have dated aspects of the production.' Yes, but in the very artificiality of some of the special effects, there is a creepiness that isn't there in today's slick, flawless, computer-aided images... Even allowing for its slow start, wooden acting and wall-to-wall screaming, there is something ageless and primeval about "King Kong" that still somehow works." The film was a box office success making about $2 million in
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is now widely recognized as a racial exploitation film as it implicitly depicted black women having sex with gorillas, and baby offspring that looked more ape than human. The film was an immediate hit, and by some estimates it was one of the highest-grossing films of the 1930s at over $4 million. Although Cooper never listed "Ingagi" among his influences for "King Kong," it has long been held that RKO green-lit "Kong" because of the bottom-line example of "Ingagi" and the formula that "gorillas plus sexy women in peril equals enormous profits". Merian C. Cooper's fascination with gorillas began with
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Son of Kong Son of Kong (also known as "The Son of Kong") is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure monster film produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by Buzz Gibson and Willis O'Brien, the film stars Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack and Frank Reicher. The film is the lesser-known sequel to "King Kong" and was released just nine months after its predecessor. The story picks up about a month after the previous film and follows the further adventures of filmmaker Carl Denham, now implicated in numerous lawsuits following the destruction brought by Kong. Denham leaves
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from the screenplay that had been published shortly before the film's release in 1933. On November 12, 1975, Universal announced it would start production on "The Legend of King Kong" on January 5, 1976 with Bo Goldman writing the screenplay based on the novelization by Lovelace. On November 20, RKO-General countersued Universal for $5 million alleging that "The Legend of King Kong" was an infringement on their copyright, and asked the court to prevent any "announcements, representations, and statements" on their proposed film. On December 4, De Laurentiis countersued for $90 million with charges of copyright infringement and "unfair competition".
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the log, as well as the scene where Kong pushes the gates open. The Williams process did not use bipacking, but rather an optical printer, the first such device that synchronized a projector with a camera, so that several strips of film could be combined into a single composited image. Through the use of the optical printer, the special effects crew could film the foreground, the stop-motion animation, the live-action footage, and the background, and combine all of those elements into one single shot. The optical printer would continue to be used for films until the late 1980s, when they
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tickets were priced at $.35 to $.75, and, in its first four days, every one of its ten-shows-a-day were sold out – setting an all-time attendance record for an indoor event. Over the four-day period, the film grossed $89,931. The film had its official world premiere on March 23, 1933 at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. The 'big head bust' was placed in the theater's forecourt and a seventeen-act show preceded the film with "The Dance of the Sacred Ape" performed by a troupe of African American dancers the highpoint. "Kong" cast and crew attended and Wray thought her on-screen
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session. For budget reasons, RKO decided not to have an original film score composed, instead instructing composer Max Steiner to simply reuse music from other films. Cooper thought the film deserved an original score and paid Steiner $50,000 to compose it. Steiner completed the score in six weeks and recorded it with a 46-piece orchestra. The studio later reimbursed Cooper. The score was unlike any that came before and marked a significant change in the history of film music. "King Kong"'s score was the first feature-length musical score written for an American "talkie" film, the first major Hollywood film to
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Warner, Inc. Warner Bros released a Blu-ray version in October 27, 2015. Son of Kong Son of Kong (also known as "The Son of Kong") is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure monster film produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by Buzz Gibson and Willis O'Brien, the film stars Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack and Frank Reicher. The film is the lesser-known sequel to "King Kong" and was released just nine months after its predecessor. The story picks up about a month after the previous film and follows the further adventures of filmmaker Carl Denham, now
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employed and models ranged from 18 inches to 3 feet in length. Several of the models were originally built for "Creation" and sometimes two or three models were built of individual species. Prolonged exposure to studio lights wreaked havoc with the latex skin so John Cerasoli carved wooden duplicates of each model to be used as stand-ins for test shoots and lineups. He carved wooden models of Ann, Driscoll, and other human characters. Models of the "Venture", railway cars, and war planes were built. "King Kong" is well known for its groundbreaking use of special effects, such as stop-motion animation,
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popularity spawned similar pictures such as "Tarzan of the Apes". In 1925, "The Lost World" made movie history with special effects by Willis O'Brien and a crew that later would work on "King Kong". "King Kong" producer Ernest B. Schoedsack had earlier monkey experience directing "" in 1927 (also with Merian C. Cooper) and "Rango" in 1931, both of which prominently featured monkeys in authentic jungle settings. Capitalizing on this trend, Congo Pictures released the hoax documentary "Ingagi" in 1930, advertising the film as "an authentic incontestable celluloid document showing the sacrifice of a living woman to mammoth gorillas." "Ingagi"
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the search party. Other notable changes include the addition of a character totally original to this comic, Denham's assistant Wally, and an extended sequence of several dinosaurs joining Kong in attacking the native village. Characters Creatures In the 1990s, Dark Horse Comics was publishing comics based on popular movie monsters such as Alien, Predator, Gamera, and Godzilla. They wanted to base comics on King Kong as well. There were plans on doing a comic adaptation of the 1933 film, as well as pitting King Kong against the Aliens, the Predators and even the Rocketeer (in a story written by Dave
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Joel Harlow Joel Harlow is a makeup artist. Harlow won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling in 2009 for his work on "Star Trek", and was once again nominated in 2013 for "The Lone Ranger" and in 2016 for "Star Trek Beyond". Harlow was inspired to work in film-making after seeing the 1933 film "King Kong" as a child. He later explained that he spent "hours in the basement creating things and I knew I wanted to make characters. I just didn't know what it was at the time, that makeup was the way to do that." He
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numerous VHS and LaserDisc releases of varying quality prior to receiving an official studio release on DVD. Those included a Turner 60th anniversary edition in 1993 featuring a front cover which had the sound effect of Kong roaring when his chest was pressed. It also included the colorized version of the film and a 25-minute documentary, "It Was Beauty Killed the Beast" (1992). The documentary is also available on two different UK "King Kong" DVDs, while the colorized version is available on DVD in the UK and Italy. Warner Home Video re-released the black and white version on VHS with
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the original series as well to also take advantage of the 2005 movie's release. Two video games were released based on the series, both on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. The first, called simply "Kong: The Animated Series", was released by Planet Interactive in 2002. The second was released by Majesco Entertainment in 2005, and was based on the direct-to-video film "". Kong: The Animated Series Kong: The Animated Series is an American-Canadian television series for children that follows King Kong, the monster of the 1933 film of the same name. "Kong" was created to compete with "", and first
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disliked the film's contrived special effects, they let Steiner try to improve the film with music. The studio suggested using old tracks in order to save on the cost of the film. However, "King Kong" producer Merian C. Cooper asked Steiner to score the film and said he would pay for the orchestra. Steiner took advantage of this offer and used an eighty-piece orchestra, explaining the film "was made for music". According to Steiner, "it was the kind of film that allowed you to do anything and everything, from weird chords and dissonances to pretty melodies.". Steiner additionally scored the
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and subsequent 1925 film adaptation. They have been used in a number of films and television programs since, including the 1933 film "King Kong", and 1966's "One Million Years B.C.". In the latter, animator Ray Harryhausen had to add inaccurate bat-like wing fingers to his stop motion models in order to keep the membranes from falling apart, though this particular error was common in art even before the film was made. Pterosaurs were mainly absent from notable film appearances until 2001, with "Jurassic Park III". However, paleontologist Dave Hone has noted that, even after the 40 intervening years, the pterosaurs
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American model, Carmen Dell’Orefice appeared in the show wearing an elaborate white embroidered fur-lined gown, with an escort of four to help carry its train. Dell’Orefice later went on to compare Guo to Charles James. Guo was credited as a costume designer on the set of the 2014 film "The Monkey King". The film's makeup and costume departments were nominated for a Hong Kong Film Award the following year but lost out to Man Lim Chung, in "The Golden Era". In 2008, Guo conceived a canary yellow floor-length dress with a large circular train, edged with yellow coloured fur and
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in the undergrowth. In these films, scientific knowledge could be subverted at any time, and it was this that provided the genre with its vitality, appeal, and endurance. In the early 20th century, few zoos had primate exhibits so there was popular demand to see them on film. At the turn of the 20th century, the Lumière Brothers sent film documentarians to places westerners had never seen, and Georges Méliès utilized trick photography in film fantasies that prefigured that in "King Kong". Jungle films were launched in the United States in 1913 with "Beasts in the Jungle", and the film's
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shot it. In 1929, the duo worked to create "The Four Feathers" film. It was the first fiction film that Schoedsack and Cooper collaborated on. It was also one of the last silent films of Hollywood. While Schoedsack and Cooper made several other films together, they are most known for directing the 1933 film "King Kong." After finishing production on "The Most Dangerous Game," Schoedsack joined Cooper in the production of "King Kong." Schoedsack focused on scenes with human actors, while Cooper headed the special effects. Schoedsack, Cooper, and Rose inspired the characters of John Driscoll, Carl Denham, and Ann
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Books, who were reissuing Delos W. Lovelace's novelization of "King Kong". A panel of "Monocle" satirists was due to give an ironic commentary on "King Kong", followed by a screening of the film. One of the titles on the satirists’ program was "King Kong to Viet Cong: Thirty Years of Gorilla Warfare". Andy Warhol, who was not on the guest list, used the occasion to generate publicity and create a performance by complaining to the press that "King Kong" should be screened with his own film "Empire" (1964). Warhol was permitted to show three minutes of "Empire" after "King Kong".
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kind of bond, and Paulie soon reveals to Mouse that she doesn't have a brother named Lewis; it is actually her, masquerading as a boy, and that she has everyone fooled, even Tory. She takes Mouse to the shrine she has made to the 1933 film "King Kong", and sets Mouse a series of bizarre tests to prove that she, too, can 'be' a boy. These include: eating six bowls of tapioca pudding without vomiting, letting a match burn to the skin without crying, and managing to urinate whilst standing up. After Mouse completes these 'preliminaries', she embarks upon three
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Before Christmas" and "James and the Giant Peach". Sometimes even objects are used, such as with the films of Jan Švankmajer. Stop motion animation was also commonly used for special effects work in many live-action films, such as the 1914 Italian cult epic film "Cabiria", the 1933 version of "King Kong" and "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad". The first fully computer-animated feature film was Pixar's "Toy Story" (1995). The process of CGI animation is still very tedious and similar in that sense to traditional animation, and it still adheres to many of the same principles. A principal difference of CGI
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and on "King Kong", producer Merian C. Cooper presented the award to Willis O'Brien. Mighty Joe Young (1949 film) Mighty Joe Young (also known as Mr. Joseph Young of Africa and The Great Joe Young) is a 1949 American black and white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for "King Kong" (1933). Produced by Merian C. Cooper, who wrote the story, and Ruth Rose, who wrote the screenplay, the film was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and stars Robert Armstrong (who appears in both films), Terry Moore and Ben Johnson in
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window into the pack of his frenzied hunting dogs. "The Most Dangerous Game" was filmed at night on the same sets used in "King Kong" (1933) with two of the same actors, Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong. The film made a profit of $70,000 during its first year of release. "The Most Dangerous Game" received mostly positive reviews from critics upon its release. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film three out of four stars, calling it "[a] Vivid telling of Richard Connell's oft-filmed story". British magazine "Time Out" gave the film a positive review, praising the film's
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critics. On aggregate review site Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 84% based on 261 reviews, with an average rating of 7.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Featuring state-of-the-art special effects, terrific performances, and a majestic sense of spectacle, Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong" is a potent epic that's faithful to the spirit of the 1933 original." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 81 out of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+-to-F scale. It was placed on
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in collaboration with Bill Condon, ran to nine volumes and was published From 1996-97 by Hodder Headline. The series includes: Ghoul Man, FreakOut!, Loco-Zombies, Slime Zone, Bone Screamers, Rat Heads, Brain Sucker (written entirely by Condon), Humungoid, and Feeding Frenzy. Hood has also written authoritative articles on the zombie theme in cinema, on the history of Australian horror films (to 1990), and on giant monster films. One of the latter, "Divided Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla" (which he wrote for a book on the 1933 film "King Kong" -- "King Kong Is Back!" edited by David Brin (BenBella Books, 2005)
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Howling". The special effects of "Cameron's Closet" were done by Carlo Rambaldi, who had previously designed the eponymous character in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) and the mechanical head-effects for the creature in "Alien" (1979), for both of which had earned Rambaldi an Oscar. Rambaldi also worked on "Profondo Rosso (Deep Red)" (1975), "King Kong" (1976), "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977), "Dune" (1984), and "King Kong Lives" (1986). Cult horror film director William Lustig has a cameo in the film as a pornographic film director being booked by the police. The film was given a limited theatrical release in
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the three-strip process. One "Silly Symphony", "Three Little Pigs" (1933), engendered such a positive audience response that it overshadowed the feature films with which it was shown. Hollywood was buzzing about color film again. According to "Fortune" magazine, "Merian C. Cooper, producer for RKO Radio Pictures and director of "King Kong" (1933), saw one of the "Silly Symphonies" and said he never wanted to make a black-and-white picture again." Although Disney's first 60 or so Technicolor cartoons used the three-strip camera, an improved "successive exposure" process was adopted circa 1937. This variation of the three-strip process was designed primarily for
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criticism, reported by film critic Roger Ebert, because he was "not precisely hero material". Ebert defended that casting decision, saying Driscoll was just a writer who did not need "big muscles". On the making of documentary, Adrien Brody commented that of all the films he had ever made, "King Kong" was the one for which he was most anticipating seeing the finished product. Jack Driscoll Jack Driscoll is a fictional character in the "King Kong" franchise. In the original 1933 film he was the first mate of the ship named the "Venture", while in its 2005 remake he was a
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making "Prehistoric Beast", received assistance from ILM stop-motion animators Randy Dutra (who made the dinosaur molds and skins) and Tom St. Amand (who made the inner articulated metallic skeletons of the dinosaurs). In the 1933 film "King Kong", a "Stegosaurus" attacks the film characters and after having killed it by gun fire one of the characters identifies it as being "a prehistoric beast". This line, taken from the film, inspired Phil Tippett when giving a title to his 1984 animated short film. An excerpt from this "King Kong" scene is shown in the final 1985 documentary "Dinosaur!", as a reference
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really wanted to create the sense that he’s a moving sculpture,” stated Tilders In December 1932, as the film "King Kong" was finishing production, Merian C. Cooper asked his friend Delos W. Lovelace to adapt the film's screenplay into a novelization. Published by Grosset & Dunlap, the book was released later that month on December 27, 1932, a few months before the film opened in the Spring of 1933. This was a part of the film's advance marketing campaign. The novelization was credited as being based on the "Screenplay by James A. Creelman and Ruth Rose. Novelized from the Radio
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Canada taking its total to $3.9 million in cumulative domestic (United States and Canada) rentals. Profits from the 1952 re-release were estimated by the studio at $2.5 million. In the 19th and early twentieth century, people of African descent were commonly visually represented as ape-like, a metaphor that fitted racist stereotypes, further bolstered by the emergence of scientific racism. Early blockbuster films frequently mirrored racial tensions. While "King Kong" is often compared to the story of "Beauty and the Beast", many film scholars have argued that the film was a racist cautionary tale about interracial romance, in which the film's
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seeks to be more." King Kong (2013 musical) King Kong is a musical with music by Marius de Vries, lyrics by Michael Mitnick and Craig Lucas, a book by Lucas and additional musical and lyrical contributions by 3D, Sarah McLachlan, Guy Garvey, Justice and The Avalanches. It is based on the 1933 film of the same name. The original production was mounted in Australia in 2013. A Broadway production premiered in October 2018. The Australian production took five years of planning and over five months of rehearsals. Its director, Daniel Kramer, said that it took "three years of auditions and
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King Kong (2013 musical) King Kong is a musical with music by Marius de Vries, lyrics by Michael Mitnick and Craig Lucas, a book by Lucas and additional musical and lyrical contributions by 3D, Sarah McLachlan, Guy Garvey, Justice and The Avalanches. It is based on the 1933 film of the same name. The original production was mounted in Australia in 2013. A Broadway production premiered in October 2018. The Australian production took five years of planning and over five months of rehearsals. Its director, Daniel Kramer, said that it took "three years of auditions and workshops" before performances began.
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character Raiden and his girlfriend Rose. King Kong was mentioned in the song of the same name by LA Symphony in 2002 on the album "Baloney". In the 2008 film "Be Kind Rewind", Jerry (Jack Black) gets magnetized, thus erasing all the tapes in his friend's video store. They set out to remake the movies, and one of them is "King Kong". In The Mr. Men Show episode "Skyscrapers", he was seen carrying Little Miss Sunshine up a building. In the "Total Drama Action" (2009–2010) episode "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", the character Izzy plays a role as
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utilized for the production of "The Son of Kong". The "long face" Kong armature, from the log bridge and "Tyrannosaurus" fight sequences, was also used for "Little Kong". It is the only known model of Kong still in existence and is currently owned by film historian and collector Bob Burns. Also, the same "Brontosaurus" model used for the raft scene in "King Kong" can be glimpsed in the sea as the island is sinking. The stop motion animation in the film (done by Willis O'Brien who also did the effects in "King Kong") is not as extensive as in the
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both Skull Island and in New York. Jackson describes his central character: In the 2017 film "", Kong is scaled to be tall, making it the biggest incarnation in the series. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts stated in regard to Kong's immense stature: He also stated that the original 1933 look was the inspiration for the design, saying: Co-producer Mary Parent also stated that Kong is still young and not fully grown as she explains, "Kong is an adolescent when we meet him in the film; he's still growing into his role as alpha". While one of the most famous movie icons
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1933 in film The following is an overview of 1933 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The Film Daily Yearbook listed the following as the ten leading news events of the year. Other notable events include: The following films made the most money from their initial release in 1933: Including subsequent re-issues, RKO's "King Kong" has worldwide rentals of $5.3 million. The 6th Academy Awards were held on March 16, 1934, at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Will Rogers and Rogers also presented all of
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(1997). In the third act of the film, a creature (a "Tyrannosaurus rex") is brought to civilization from a remote island where it runs amok in a city (the ship that transports the beast is even called "The Venture", which is the name of the ship in "King Kong"). Kong is even mentioned directly in the first one: as the tour group approaches the massive Jurassic Park gate that is reminiscent of the gate in "King Kong", Jeff Goldblum's character asks, "What have they got in there, King Kong?" In the third film in this series, a "Spinosaurus" vs. "Tyrannosaurus
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attack; in 2014, using brain tissue preserved from his 2010 autopsy, he was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy by the CTE Center at Boston University School of Medicine. His son Lofa Tatupu played linebacker for the University of Southern California and middle linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks.Nephew Joe Tuipala also a NFL linebacker from 1999 to 2005. In "The Simpsons" episode "Treehouse of Horror III" Mosi Tatupu's name is used during the "King Homer" segment. This segment is a parody of the 1933 film "King Kong". During this segment, the character of the chief of Ape Island is shown
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models that had been built for "Creation" (1931) (most being used in the earlier "King Kong"). However these sequences were never filmed due to the film's tight budget and shooting schedule. Helen Mack's character is never referred to as "Hilda" in the film. The name "Hilda" is used in the credits and her father refers to her as "Madame Helene" during the show. Denham just calls her "kid". Little Kong was referred to as "Kiko" during production, but this name is never used in the film or in publicity materials. Several models which were used for "King Kong" were also
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