Details Emerge About Godzilla vs. Kong As Filming Gets Underway
What will happen when two exceedingly destructive creatures collide? We are getting closer to finding out as Godzilla vs. Kong entered production. The ultimate showdown will come after Godzilla: King of Monsters is unleashed next year. Both titans of the silver screen have had storied histories as villains and victors. They have incredible potential for devastation, ...
How Does Your Favorite Movie Monster Size Up?
The joy of monster movies is often seeing how much destruction an enormous mutant can wreak on a city, or lost island, as the case may be. Visual effects artists often fill the entire screen with King Kong’s eyes or dwarf Dwayne Johnson with a silverback gorilla that doesn’t even fit on the poster to ...
The Kong: Skull Island VFX Team Reveals Their Design Secrets
Seeing our favorite monsters come to life on screen gets more incredible each year as technology makes them bigger, scarier, and more realistic. King Kong is one of the most sympathetic monsters to stomp onto movie screens since Frankenstein. Sometimes enemy, other times hero, Kong often displays human emotions and can be both fearsome and gentle. The ...
How the Kong: Skull Island Cinematographer Channeled Apocalypse Now
From the minute cinematographer Larry Fong walked into Jordan Vogt-Roberts' office to discuss Kong: Skull Island, it became clear that the director wanted to make more than a by-the-numbers monster movie. "The walls in Jordan's office were filled with stills from Apocalypse Now," recalls Fong, citing Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War masterpiece. "We were both ...
Strong Reviews Suggest Kong: Skull Island a Smashing Good Time
We’ve been feeling good about Kong: Skull Island ever since the first teasers and trailers started rolling in. A great ensemble cast set on a rococo primordial island with the largest Kong ever committed to screen? Yeah, we were sold. When Warner Bros. hit us with this wild final trailer, we felt very confident that ...
Final Trailer for Kong: Skull Island is Most Bonkers Yet
There is something really weird and wonderful going on with Kong: Skull Island. The trailers and snippets we've seen thus far look like the kind of Kong movie we've been waiting for—big, bold, and best of all, strange. We've already written about the Godzilla/Kong connection in Skull Island (they'll be facing off in a Warner Bros. film in a few ...
New Kong: Skull Island Clips Showcase Most Ambitious Kong Film yet
Yesterday we discussed how Kong: Skull Island will introduce the largest Kong ever put on screen. Standing more than 100 feet tall, this Kong is more than four times the size of the incarnation we saw in Peter Jackson’s 2005 film, and rules as a god over an island with more beasts and monsters than ...
Kong: Skull Island IMAX Featurette Delivers Biggest Kong of All-Time
One of the long-standing issues in a Godzilla versus Kong narrative is their size discrepancy. Judging on their most recent incarnations (Skull Island notwithstanding), Gareth Edwards Godzilla was roughly 350 feet tall, while Peter Jackson’s Kong was only a puny 25 feet fall. Naturally, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are more than aware about this, ...
New Kong: Skull Island Clip Connects to Future Godzilla Fight
"Monsters exist." This would seem stating the obvious, but, for Lieutenant Colonel Packard (Samuel L. Jackson), this seems to come as something of a surprise in this new Kong: Skull Island clip, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies. He’s pointing a gun at Bill Randa (John Goodman) and trying to get to the bottom of what, exactly, ...
Kong: Skull Island TV Spots Reveal Beastly Battle
Four new Kong: Skull Island TV spots give us our most sustained glimpse of the king himself. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts film boasts the largest, fiercest Kong ever put on screen, a fact that's made abundantly clear ten seconds into the first spot. Skull Island follows a team of explorers, led by Colonel James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) as they venture onto ...
Japanese Kong: Skull Island Trailer Teases Battle With Godzilla
This Japanese trailer for Kong: Skull Island begins with a nod towards the mega-battle of the future, between King Kong and Godzilla that Warner Brothers has planned for March of 2019. With this bit of business taken care of, the trailer (with fantastic Japanese narration) dives into the story proper, which follows a team of ...
The First Kong: Skull Island Trailer is Dazzling
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures had been teasing us with Kong: Skull Island tidbits for the last week, but finally, the new trailer aired last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. This is our first really good look at the largest, meanest Kong of all time. It only takes 39 seconds for King Kong to make ...
See King Kong in Action in new Skull Island Teasers
This Wednesday Warner Bros. Pictures will release the new Kong: Skull Island trailer, and to tease this reveal they've dropped two new mini teasers. In conjunction with a video released by Entertainment Weekly, you're getting your first clean look at the king of the beasts. The new Kong film follows a team of explorers, led by Tom Hiddleston, ...
Watch Kong: Skull Island’s Rollicking Japanese Teaser
Riffing on Japans' own legendary monster, this Japanese trailer for Warner Bros. upcoming Kong: Skull Island teaser seems to hint at a battle we won't see for another two years—Godzilla vs. King Kong, which is slated for June 8, 2018. This is hinted at in a brief mention of Godzilla and the chosen shots in the teaser. ...
Comic-Con 2016: The Kong: Skull Island Trailer is Here
Do you want to see the biggest, baddest King Kong in film history? You're in luck, because Legendary and Warner Bros. Pictures have released the Comic-Con trailer for the upcoming Kong: Skull Island, the first time we're getting a look at the most famous colossal primate of all time. A team of explorers, led by Tom Hiddleston's character, and co-starring ...
Check out the First Footage From Kong: Skull Island
You probably don't know much about Kong: Skull Island, and who could blame you? The film has been shrouded in secrecy since its origins. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts' film has finally revealed a little taste of what's to come in this new featurette, with stars Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell taking us behind the scenes and revealing, finally, a bit of the plot, character details and more. ...
