Surprising no one, “Kong” takes the box office top spot ($50 Million). Narnia slips to number two, but still pulls in a respectable chunk of change ($31 Million).
* – New Release. More data and stuff at Box Office Mojo
The latest round of DVD picks is also the last before
Christmas. It also has one of the most predictable
picks of the week in the history of this column.
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And just what is a “Saturday Movie Review” you might
ask? I’ve got a lot of unreviewed movies in my
collection. I plan to review one movie every
Saturday until that has been rectified. I’ll be
skipping most of the horror films, to save them for
another Halloween event, and passing on the
superheroes for now because we’ve got a lot of that
content anyway with new releases and comic books.
Aside from that, I’m going through them all, and I’ll
be reviewing them in alphabetical order (with the
exception of next week’s holiday themed review.) My
collection is sorted with numbers first, so here we
go: 1984.
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Sci-Fi Wire got a sneak preview of one of the extended scenes from the upcoming release of Serenity on DVD. This clip features a little more Shepherd Book.
For those of you living under a rock, Serenity comes out December 20th.
King Kong cometh!
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It’s been all over and frankly, I just don’t believe it. Not that powers that be aren’t that stupid, it just doesn’t make any sense. Only we few geeks even know about the whole Mirror Universe concept and I doubt that Paramount will attempt anything with that narrow an audience. Here’s the original story from Ain’t it Cool News.
Update: Paramount has quashed the rumor, but has confirmed the existance of a Star Trek script that is being looked at by the studio.
Some of this
week’s notables are listed below.
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The general consensus seems to be the movie’s great to watch. What did you think?
(Kingu Kongu tai Gojira)
Urban legend declares that Kong wins in the American version and Gojira in Japan’s. This is false, but different versions did play the west and east sides. We hear Kong’s, but not Godzilla’s, triumphant cry as the pair topples off the cliff and into their next movies (Godzilla vs Mothra aka Godzilla vs the Thing and King Kong Escapes) in the American release. The western version also features some re-editing and new sequences. It emphasizes the conflict between Kong’s sophisticated mammal brain and Godzilla’s primal reptilian one: a characterization true of the original Godzilla, but not the later lizard superhero.
This review (Bureau article #3000!) ends our Kong Kountdown. The much-anticipated remake opens tomorrow.
We’re counting down to the big budget remake of and homage to 1933’s King Kong. Peter Jackson, of course, isn’t the first to remake the classic adventure film. In addition to numerous knock-offs, Dino De Laurentiis produced this notorious remake, released during America’s bicentennial year.