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King Kong Moves To Warner Bros. For Future Kong Vs Godzilla Film

In an unexpected move Universal has moved it’s upcoming King Kong Skull Island film to Warner Bros. The reason for the change, to make it possible for a future King Kong Vs. Godzilla film, Warner Bros. owns the rights to the Godzilla franchise. The latest Godzilla and Kong features are currently in the works and will be followed up with an epic sequel that will pit giant beast against giant beast. The two beasts have gone head to head before in the 1962’s King Kong Vs. Godzilla. There is no word yet if the new film will be a remake or a completely new story.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 15, 2015
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Consuming Cynema PART II

The Remake The road to the remake is a winding one. There is no clear pathway toward the answer of whether they are good or bad, needed or unwanted. They exist. They will continue to be made because there is demand. My previous article opened with a quote from George Bush’s post 9-11 speech which hinted at “living life” is a series of consuming events that follow an image that has been dictated to us by a media assault that has shaped us since birth. So what does that have to do with filmmaking and entertainment? Does art imitate life or the other way around? Why is Disney the Mecca of family vacations? Who said women are to look a certain way, smoking is glamorous, drinking a soda makes you like Michael Jackson or Beyonce? We have a new generation growing up with incredible access to entertainment. Cell phones, tablets, video game systems and computers allow instant access to everything,

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Capt McNeely
Aug 24, 2015
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Big Apes, Big Cynema

Dino! “When Jaws die, nobody cry . When my Kong die, everybody cry.” – Dino DeLaurentiis, producer Younger viewers have almost no idea who legendary producer Dino DeLaurentiis was. Some saw him as the Italian forerunner of Michael Bay; creator of expensive, big budget, soulless films followed by similar producers like Alexander and Ilya Salkind, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. DeLaurentiis said this about his humble beginnings in film: “After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the

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Capt McNeely
Aug 21, 2015

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King Kong Moves To Warner Bros. For Future Kong Vs Godzilla Film

In an unexpected move Universal has moved it’s upcoming King Kong Skull Island film to Warner Bros. The reason for the change, to make it possible for a future King Kong Vs. Godzilla film, Warner Bros. owns the rights to the Godzilla franchise. The latest Godzilla and Kong features are currently in the works and will be followed up with an epic sequel that will pit giant beast against giant beast. The two beasts have gone head to head before in the 1962’s King Kong Vs. Godzilla. There is no word yet if the new film will be a remake or a completely new story.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 15, 2015
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Consuming Cynema PART II

The Remake The road to the remake is a winding one. There is no clear pathway toward the answer of whether they are good or bad, needed or unwanted. They exist. They will continue to be made because there is demand. My previous article opened with a quote from George Bush’s post 9-11 speech which hinted at “living life” is a series of consuming events that follow an image that has been dictated to us by a media assault that has shaped us since birth. So what does that have to do with filmmaking and entertainment? Does art imitate life or the other way around? Why is Disney the Mecca of family vacations? Who said women are to look a certain way, smoking is glamorous, drinking a soda makes you like Michael Jackson or Beyonce? We have a new generation growing up with incredible access to entertainment. Cell phones, tablets, video game systems and computers allow instant access to everything,

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Aug 24, 2015
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Big Apes, Big Cynema

Dino! “When Jaws die, nobody cry . When my Kong die, everybody cry.” – Dino DeLaurentiis, producer Younger viewers have almost no idea who legendary producer Dino DeLaurentiis was. Some saw him as the Italian forerunner of Michael Bay; creator of expensive, big budget, soulless films followed by similar producers like Alexander and Ilya Salkind, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. DeLaurentiis said this about his humble beginnings in film: “After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Aug 21, 2015