Keye Luke was born in Guangzhou, China on June 18th 1904, to a father who owned an art shop. Luke grew up with four siblings (his younger brother Edwin Luke also became an actor in the Charlie Chan series) and the family later emigrated from China to California during […]
IM Global Television and MarVista Entertainment, two independent studios, have announced their intentions to create a television series based off the works of Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong (1932) and DeVito ArtWorks’ Skull Island. This series is aptly titled King Kong Skull Island. It will not be set in the […]
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong: Skull Island is scripted by John Gatins and Max Borenstein. Legendary’s John Jashni and Thomas Tull are producing alongside Mary Parent. Legendary has promised that the story will honor the foundations of existing King Kong lore, but will place Skull Island in an entirely new, […]
Haruo Nakajima was born on January 1st 1929 in Yamagata, Japan. He is considered by many to be the best suit actor in the long history of the franchise. At the time, Toho’s visual effects director, Eiji Tsuburaya considered Nakajima completely invaluable, and was employed to essay the roles of […]
News has broken that the King Kong franchise has now moved studios to Warner Bros. and almost instantly speculation has arisen pitching Kong against everyone’s favorite atomic lizard Godzilla! It wouldn’t be the first time the pair had tussled. In pre-CGI times, the 1962 Toho studios Kingu Kongu tai Gojira pitted […]
The Bowery is a 1933 film about the Lower East Side of Manhattan around the start of the 20th century, It is directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Wallace Beery and George Raft. As the film opens we meet, saloon owner Chuck Connors (Beery), finds that his rival, Steve […]
Mr. Tako, head of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, is frustrated with the television shows his company is sponsoring and wants something to boost his ratings. When a doctor tells Tako about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro Island, Tako believes that it would be a brilliant idea […]
