King Kong News

He was a giant on screen, but the King Kong figurine which climbed to the top of the Empire State Building in 1933 was less than 2 feet tall.

While the world grapples with Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture take on A Christmas Carol and wonders what's in store for us with Avatar , filming has been quietly happening on a film that may very well be the biggest game changer of all.

I thought I'd seek out Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones as a lead-up to the release of the movie of the same name by Peter Jackson early next year.

He rampaged through New York and scaled the Empire State Building with Fay Wray in one hand, yet the real King Kong failed to terrify London yesterday - because he is less than two feet tall.

Movie fans will again have stars in their eyes when The Lovely Bones gets the red carpet treatment at the Embassy Theatre.

Decoding the Decade: The future so far Patrick Huard and Colm Feore in the film Bon Cop,. Bad Cop Handout With an awesome tagline like 'Shoot first, translate later, how can this 2006 Canadian crime thriller not be on our list of most underrated films of the decade.

Thursday, 5 November 2009, 11:06 am Press Release: Skip Ink By arrangement with AVALON PROMOTIONS UK and LIBERTY BELL, BEN MCDONALD presents GRUMPY OLD WOMEN Written by Jenny Éclair & Judith Holder From Cardiff to Canberra and now New Zealand , women of a certain age can finally unite behind a common fear of graying hairs and sagging rears.

Colin Hanks has been cast opposite Bradley Whitford in "Jack and Dan," Fox's upcoming 13-episode action comedy series set in Los Angeles.

My parents, already well aware of my budding interest in all things cinematically macabre, shepherded me to the local Loew's in our tiny village of Pittsford, N.Y., to see my first Alfred Hitchcock film Family Plot which, as it turned out, also happened to be the director's underrated swan song.

She's just been named cinema's most bankable actress. So why is Naomi Watts complaining, asks Kaleem Aftab Naomi Watts When Forbes magazine recently published a list of the most bankable actresses in Hollywood, Naomi Watts was the surprising name at the top.

I took Monday off, and so I'm going to cram some movie stuff and some football stuff into this post.

IT took three years but fans eagerly awaiting Peter Jackson's Dam Busters remake had their patience rewarded last week with a glimpse of a replica Avro Lancaster bomber.

The Hollywood actress Naomi Watts admits that becoming a mother has made her life 'really boring' and she is usually asleep by 9.30pm. However the star is still happy to use her celebrity status to get a table at exclusive restaurants.

Ia m not sure when the story of beauty and the beast was first told. Very likely, no one else knows either.

So much in love with movies, it's Awesome! The Lovely Bones isA Peter Jackson's next movie after King Kong of four years ago.

Up until about two or three years ago I didn't show my photographs to anyone," says Jessica Lange, revealing something of the reticence that is an essential if unlikely aspect of her persona.

With their terrifying high-pitched banshee screams, loud enough to split our ears in the theatre yet somehow not loud enough to actually reach the ears of people that can help them, the Hollywood Scream Queen has become a staple of all horror movies since the advent of sound.

The Pianist star was this week unveiled as the man who is to take Arnold Schwarzenegger's part on Robert Rodriguez's Predator remake.

This undated image provided by Christie's Images Ltd.2009, on Friday Oct. 9 2009, shows a 22-inch armature which was used in the 1933 film 'King Kong' to allow the animated ape to scale the Empire State Building in the final scenes.The armature, estimated to reach pounds 100,000-150,000 is up for auction in London on Tuesday Nov.

After a turn on the huge budget remake of King Kong, Adrien Brody had returned to his more low key, intellectual movies, but with the news breaking that Brody has signed on to star in the "Predators" reboot, Brody appears to enjoy the action genre.