Kong Skull Island

Hollywood's Favorite Giant Ape Returns In 'kong

... exist until you're looking for them. MONDELLO: Battles with giant spiders, water buffalo and octopi, a few of "Skull Island's" more colorful critters, are modestly persuasive - battles with pterodactyl-like skull crawlers somewhat less so. And I confess I have not a clue what the production designer was thinking when he set up a theoretically polar Aurora Borealis in this tropical paradise. Maybe they'll explain that in the "Kong" sequels. Sadly that means I'll never know. I'm Bob Mondello. (SOUNDBITE OF QUETZAL SONG, "CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD"). Copyright © 2017 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at __link__ for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb 8 tm, Inc. , an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio ...

Skull Island’ Conquering ‘logan’ For Top Spot At B.o. With $53m

... Another perk for Kong: Skull Island is its 79% Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score, which is ahead of Godzilla (74% certified fresh), Pacific Rim (71% fresh) and San Andreas (48% rotten). The hope is that the critical warmth will yield more foot traffic for this WB/Legendary title of which they are equal partners. Kong: Skull Island was announced three San Diego Comic-Cons ago with a small teaser. One comp being looked at here is Warner Bros./New Line’s San Andreas which did $3.1 M on its first Thursday, an $18.1 M Friday and legged out a $54.5 M opening. That’s a better three-day than Warner Bros./Legendary’s Pacific Rim which opened to $37.3 M after a $3.6 M Thursday and $14.56 M Friday. Still, Kong is much lower than both studios’ 2014 co-production Godzilla which minted $9.3 M in its Thursday pre-shows, and continued on to make a Friday ...

Giant Ape Footprints Appear Around L.a. In Colossal Stunt For Kong

... around Los Angeles, simulating a destructive journey around town by the titular oversized beast. Dockweiler Beach. Our favorite execution is this first one, where enormous footprints measuring 25 feet long by 12 feet across suddenly appeared last Friday on Dockweiler Beach, using sculpted sand. “Theres no ‘promotional activity’ allowed on the beach, so it was crucial that we delivered something really epic that the media would cover, or else this first and most important location of the story could have gone unnoticed,” Grandesign experience creator Jasen Smith tells Ad Freak. “For six days we re-sculpted and kept the prints clean looking and glistening with a water-based solution.”. Capitol Records. On Sunday, Kong passed by Capitol Records. “Unloading crushed vehicles with a forklift from a flatbed on the super busy Vine Street was dangerous,” says Smith. “We risked tipping the vehicles off the flatbed into oncoming traffic. Luckily we executed safely and no one was hurt! The crushed vehicles made the scene tie together. We placed fog machines in the vehicles to amplify ...

Moviebob Reviews

... Colonel who decides that killing Kong will help him feel better about being denied a “win” in Vietnam – eventually joined by John C. Reilly as a wacky Navy pilot who’s been stranded on the island since World War II. Reilly is pretty much the non-monster reason to see the movie; the only one whose character feels like he’s there to BE a character first instead of mainly moving the plot forward (though Shea Wigham does what he can in as Jackson’s underwritten foil). He’s one of our great living character actors, and this kind of cleanup batting is exactly why the job was invented. Honestly, what I enjoyed most about this is that it’s a throwback monster movie but not working the same angle you always see in the genre. It’s not really doing the Japanese Kaiju aesthetic like Godzilla and Pacific Rim or the Jurassic Park science-gone-bad thing or even making a ...

Kong Motion-capture Actor On Sequel Plans And Seeking Andy Serkis' Blessing

... the character just came to life. The amazing thing about motion capture is everything translates. Your slightest emotions translate through the suit and into the character. It was fun. It did not take a long time. It took three days of motion capture to get it all done. That’s amazing. Yeah, because we were shooting against a clean plate. The character is so big that I couldn’t even be present during the live action filming of the character. So when we’re jamming in the motion capture studio, I’m looking at all the clean plates and you’ve got Cambodia and Hawaii and Vietnam and all these places and matching to those shots the scenes that we needed to do. When you’re playing an enormous character, it’s another whole thing. You have to just drop in so deep and heavy. You can’t ever come out to be in the human zone or else it just all falls apart instantly. It was a fast and furious discovery process. Having played so many apes in my life from all the films I’ve done — I’ve ...

Godzilla Vs. Kong' Film Sets Writers Room Exclusive

... Cat Vasko, currently penning Warner Bros.’ adaptation of period circus love story Queen of the Air. T. S. Nowlin, the writer of the Maze Runner movies, who already worked for Legendary on its Pacific Rim sequel. Jack Paglen, who wrote the Johnny Depp-starring Transcendence and who also worked on the upcoming Alien: Covenant. And J. Michael Straczynski, the comic book writer and creator of 1990 s sci-fi show Babylon 5 whose recent credits include World War Z and co-creating Netflix show Sense 8 with the Wachowskis. Legendary, with Warners, continues to build out their monster universe centered on classic silver screen creatures Godzilla and King Kong. Godzilla, released in 2014, was the first entry, and Skull Island, during its development, was retrofitted to fold into an overall story. Legendary is now in the casting stages of a sequel to Godzilla, titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters, ...

Skull Island' Is King At Thursday Box Office With $3.7 Million

... (1990). Jackson starred as Stacks Edwards, a tertiary character overshadowed by roles played by lead actors Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Paul Sorvino. Warner Bros. "Coming to America" (1988). While it's hard to forget "Coming to America," where Eddie Murphy plays an African prince who travels to Queens to find a wife, there's one character who may have slipped your mind: Jackson played Hold-Up Man. His character robs a restaurant in which Murphy dines. "School Daze" (1988). In Spike Lee’s early movie about students at a historically black college, Jackson has a small but crucial scene as a townie who confronts students about their sense of entitlement. In his typically earthy way, Jackson says: “I betcha you n—ers think y’all are white.". "Patriot Games" (1992). Harrison Ford’s first big-screen turn as CIA analyst Jack Ryan features Jackson in a small role as ...

Skull Island’ Goes Into ‘apocalypse Now’ Territory

... time, but also to represent modern attitudes toward the female element in the Kong story. “One of the reasons why I did this was to turn this allegory on its head a little bit and to respond to the fact that we’re in a different time right now,” the Oscar-winning “Room” actress says. “I think we’re ready to see a different type of female hero, and what’s interesting about Weaver is that, yeah, she’s strong and she’s tough, but she’s sensitive, too. Her strength is that she’s using her heart and her humanity to actually save all of them.”. For Vogt-Roberts, the physical as well as the historical/political resonance of Vietnam is what ultimately grounds his mad monster mash-up in something we puny humans can look at and, for a couple of hours, believe. “I knew out of the gate that Kong was going to be CG and the creatures ...