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Kong: Skull Island passes $500 million at the worldwide box office

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Kong: Skull Island has become the third movie of the year to cross the $500 million mark at the global box office after Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and 20th Century Fox’s Logan. The second instalment of Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.’ shared MonsterVerse, Kong: Skull Island has earned $150.7 million domestically, plus a further […]

Movie Review – Kong: Skull Island (2017)

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Kong: Skull Island, 2017 Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts Starring Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, John C. Reilly, Corey Hawkins, John Ortiz, Tian Jing, Toby Kebbell, Jason Mitchell, Will Brittain SYNOPSIS: A team of explorers and soldiers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific, unaware that they are crossing into the domain […]

King Kong will be 100 feet tall in Kong: Skull Island

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Back in October of last year, Legendary Pictures announced that its upcoming Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla 2 movies would be followed in 2020 by the ultimate monster showdown in Godzilla vs. Kong. Given the enormity of Godzilla in Gareth Edwards’ reboot, there had been some discussion as to how King Kong could stand up to […]

Are Movie Studios Ruining Shared Universes?

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Ricky Church on whether movie studios are ruining shared universes… In the years since the Marvel Cinematic Universe began and its massive success at the box office has come a tidal wave of news that studios seek to emulate Marvel’s idea of a shared universe for their franchises. For some studios, namely Warner Bros. with […]

J.K. Simmons talks Kong: Skull Island, reveals 1970s setting

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Fresh from his Best Supporting Actor nomination for Whiplash, J.K. Simmons has been speaking to MTV about his upcoming role in the King Kong film Kong: Skull Island, revealing that it will take place in 1970s Detroit. “When it first came to my attention, ‘There’s interest in you for a new ‘King Kong,’ I thought, […]

10 Essential Creature Features

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Tom Jolliffe offers up 10 essential creature features… Who doesn’t love a good old creature feature? They still seem to be immensely popular, with recent reboots for the Jurassic Park and Godzilla franchises. That popularity in fact has been booming in the Asian markets in particular (whilst some of the recent big monster films have […]

15 Great Cinematic Journeys

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Tom Jolliffe offers up 15 great cinematic journeys…  When it comes to cinema, the very best films will grab the audience and keep us gripped throughout the runtime. Every character goes on a particular journey that can be literal and/or metaphorical. Those literal epic journeys which might see hobbits on a quest to take a […]

Disney developing live-action King Kong origin series

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While Apple are busy developing their own Titans TV show linked to the cinematic Monsterverse, Disney have decided to that they’d also like to cash in on Kong by announcing a live-action series based on the lovelorn ape’s origin on Skull Island.  According to Variety the series would be a serialised drama that would explore […]

Godzilla vs. Kong 2 working title hints at what to expect from Adam Wingard’s Monsterverse sequel

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As much as a film about two squabbling Kaiju can sneak up on you, the story that Warner Bros. Godzilla vs. Kong sequel was heading down under to shoot a sequel before the end of the year was quite a surprising one. Well, now that filming is underway on the Adam Wingard directed follow-up, a […]

Godzilla vs Kong sequel sets rematch for 2024

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Godzilla and King Kong are set to have their rematch as Warner Bros. has given a release date to the Godzilla vs Kong sequel. The Monsterverse film is scheduled for March 15th, 2024. The sequel will be released almost three years exactly to last year’s Godzilla vs Kong, which saw the two Titans fight for domination and survival […]