Sentences with phrase «king kong film»

Finally, it is worth mentioning Jordan Vogt - Roberts has directed Kong: Skull Island, a 2017 reboot of the King Kong film series, and has long been in charge of a Metal Gear Solid movie which releasing at some point yet to be determined.

Not exact matches

Thursday's exchange was expected to produce a new record poster price tag, however, the rare movie memorabilia came bundled with several other classic posters for films such as «King Kong» and «The Invisible Man,» so the sale did not qualify.
The list of movie buildings collated by Construction Manager magazine using film critics include such movies as King Kong, Die Hard, The Shining, Get Carter and Blade Runner.
The individual nature of the agents makes the scene much more lifelike than the sims used in multimillion dollar - budget films like Lord of the Rings and King Kong.
He has also appeared in several films such as Prince of the City, The World According to Garp, Jumpin» Jack Flash, King Kong Lives, and Wolfen.
If you don't recognize the name of Seth Gordon, he also directed one of my favourite documentaries of the last decade — The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — and I can't wait to see what he ends up doing with a full narrative film.
The film includes references from 1960s Batman TV series, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, King Kong, The Iron Giant, Battlestar Galactica, Superman, Spider - man, War of the Worlds.
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That's to link Kong to the 2014 Godzilla film and their planned 2020 King Kong vs. Godzilla big screen clash.
The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar - winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award - winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA - winning film Four Lions.
King and Knight are also partnered on the action - thriller «The Red Circle,» a remake of the classic French film that will be reset in Hong Kong.
«Godzilla: King of Monsters,» the sequel to the 2014 American version of Toho's famous kaiju franchise, will be part of a monster movie cinematic universe that also includes the upcoming film «Kong: Skull Island,» which Warner Bros. will release this March.
Filming just kicked off today on Trick «r Treat and Krampus director Michael Dougherty's tentatively titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the third film in Legendary's epic MonsterVerse that will further set the stage for 2020's Adam Wingard - directed Godzilla vs. Kong.
The film promises to act as a direct sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic and stars an impressive cast of actors that includes Oscar winner Adrien Brody (King Kong), Topher Grace (Spider - Man 3), Alice Braga (I Am Legend), Danny Trejo (Grindhouse), Walton Goggins (TV's The Shield) and Oscar Nominee Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix).
Of the small sampling of Hong Kong films I've seen, the ones I've liked best are not usually the pop action blockbusters but some of the so - called art movies, which in some cases have been box - office failures (largely because there is no art - movie market in Hong Kong): Yim Ho's Homecoming (1984), Wong Kar - wai's Days of Being Wild (1990), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (1991), and Yim Ho and Tsui Hark's King of Chess (1991).
The King Kong franchise has been rebooted with Kong: Skull Island, which is the film that sets up both the Kong and Godzilla universe.
Since then he has played a mix of leading roles in small independent films and supporting roles in big budget films such as Peter Jackson's version of King Kong.
Legendary's King Kong movie Kong: Skull Island may have lost two of its male stars earlier this month in Michael Keaton (Birdman) and J.K. Simmons (Whiplash), but the project has now secured its female lead, with Deadline revealing that Brie Larson (Trainwreck) has signed on to the film.
The film features effects co-designed by Willis O'Brien, the man who brought us King Kong, which is enough reason to think Warner Archive has a fun retro flick they've decided to bring back on this new release.
«Rampage» feels like a cross section of different films, it opens like a sequence out of «Gravity», briefly looks like Johnson's 2017 winter hit «Jumanji», lots of «Jurassic Park Lost World» and «King Kong» moments thrown in there with a splash of «San Andreas», since we see three planes crash during the two - hour film.
Of course, this being a del Toro film, Elisa and the creature fall in love, evoking memories of Beauty and the Beast and King Kong, which are basically the same thing.
Directed by Jordan Vogt - Roberts (The Kings of Summer), the film re-envisions the iconic King Kong in a story that takes place in the midst of the Vietnam War, with a diverse team of explorers venturing deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, only to come across the beast himself.
Directed by Jordan Vogt - Roberts, the film re-envision the King Kong story, placing it in the middle of the Vietnam War, where a team of explorers travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific only to discover the beast himself.
There are several characters from the Lego Dimensions video game that show up in the film as well as characters owned by Warner Brothers including King Kong and Gremlins.
Most famous for performances behind the CGI - created Gollum in Lord of the Rings and King Kong in Peter Jackson's remake, Andy Serkis looks like a mad troll and embraces the look in his incarnation of Ian Dury, the music - hall showman of the British punk scene who hit it big with the song immortalized in the film's title and embraced fame with the same excess with which he embraced booze and drugs.
The film launched a new wave of Hong Kong filmmaking and you can feel its influence in everything from Bruce Lee's martial arts thrillers of the 1970s to Jackie Chan's Drunken Master films to the Tsui Hark - led new wave of high energy, special effects laden adventures in 1980s Hong Kong, and of course, the Oscar winning Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee's tribute the magical, colorful genre that King Hu reinvented with this film.
While it seemed that King Kong's new home — outside of Skull Island, that is — would be Universal thanks to the company's deal with Legendary, it would appear that the latter studios» executives want to keep the dream of a Kong Vs. Godzilla film alive and are now in talks with Warner Bros. to move the creature there.
True story: when I was watching King Kong, the Empire State Building sequence, which I knew was totally fake, all special effects, was dizzying enough that it gave me an attack of vertigo and I had to watch the rest of the film lying on the floor.
Hong Kong filmmaker King Hu is known as the man who elevated wuxia films to a new level and inspired countless others to follow in his footsteps.
As Lang notes, there's a legit business reason for this calendar shift: «The mania now is for pricey event films featuring King Kong or Wolverine, that can inspire a range of consumer products from toy lines to video games,» he writes.
Smack in the middle of Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong remake is the most audacious dinosaur action sequence ever filmed, starting with a rumbling Apatosaurus stampede and ending with a free - for - all between Kong and three, count»em, three terrifying T. Rex (technically Venatosaurus, a nonexistent theropod genus invented for the movie).
Rerecording mixer Mike Hedges, a two - time Academy Award ® winner for his mixes on Peter Jackson's films King Kong and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, explained, «The benefits of Dolby Atmos are that it allows you to place sounds wherever you like.
He has appeared in the films High Fidelity, Shallow Hal, King Kong, Nacho Libre, Tropic Thunder, Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny.
The Lovely Bones is such a let down (after the less than sterling King Kong) that I wish he'd get a move on and make his next film.
Dan Hennah (Lord of The Rings, King Kong, The Hobbit) was quietly revealed as apart of the Thor: Ragnarok production team, with a set photo from director Taika Waititi revealing he would be acting as the film's production designer.
Like «King Kong» before it, it seems like Jackson decided if it can be made let's put it on film.
The influences are many, from Flash Gordon, to Buck Rogers, to King Kong, to Forbidden Planet, to The Day the Earth Stood Still, to Star Wars, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and many other films that captivated the minds of young boys growing up watching science fiction and adventure films.
Serkis is best known for his motion - capture performances as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, King Kong in King Kong and Caesar in the recent Planet of the Apes films.
King Kong, as character, icon and film, is one of the most recognised images in all of cinematic history.
Twelve years after his last film appearance, King Kong stomps back into cinemas looking bulkier than ever before.
What I found added a bit to the film other than the bog standard Godzilla / King Kong etc etc, same story different character was the relationship between the Rock and the gorilla using sign language and there was a lot of humour between them.
In four straight Peter Jackson films — the first three Lord of the Rings movies and King Kong — the VFX teams at WETA won in this category.
Director: Peter Jackson Cast: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black, Thomas Kretschmann, Jamie Bell, Evan Parke, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks and Andy Serkis Plot: A group of desperate film - makers head to an undiscovered island where their lead actress (Watts) is captured by a giant ape, King Kong.
King of Kong director Seth Gordon also executive produced the film which begins in Christmas of 2006 and runs all the way to his concession speech in 2012 after losing the election to President Barack Obama.
The work of famed Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis, his collaborations with Fellini long behind him and his American enterprises (from 1976's King Kong and Orca to Flash Gordon and Conan the Barbarian) yet to come, Barbarella is a curious film.
Also wrote films including «The Parallax View,» «Three Days of the Condor,» «King Kong» and «Never Say Never Again»
The plot of «The Shape of Water» is basically a mashup of «Frankenstein», «Beauty and the Beast», «ET: The Extra-Terrestrial», «King Kong» and a variety of other films about «alien» creatures and the people who love them.
Made on the wonderful jungle sets of King Kong while that epic's special effects were being finished, this is one of the great action - horror films and has provided a template for many «rich sicko» melodramas — the entire «torture porn» subgenre springs from the obsessions of its villain, Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks).
Kong: Skull Island is directed by American filmmaker Jordan Vogt - Roberts, of the films The Kings of Summer and Nick Offerman: American Ham previously, as well as plenty of TV work before those.
There are some fantastic films lined up; including a load of comic book movies, the return of Christopher Nolan and King Kong, a new -LSB-...]
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