King Kong Parodied at MTV Awards
Wedding Crashers took top honors at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, winning the Golden Popcorn for ‘Best Movie,’ along with awards for ‘Best On-Screen Team’ & ‘Breakthrough Performance’
Other memorable moments throughout the evening included the laugh-at-loud film parodies of “King Kong,” “Da Vinci Code,” and “Mission Impossible III.”
The 2006 MTV Movie Awards airs nationwide on Thursday, June 8th at 9pm ET/PT.
The King Kong DVD will be released March 28. Looks like there will be three versions:
a full screen version
a widescreen version
a 2-disc widescren special edition
here’s what disc 2 of the special edition DVD contains:
- Special Introduction by Peter Jackson
- Post-Production Diaries: Director Peter Jackson takes you on an unforgettable journey revealing virtually every aspect of post-production with nearly three hours of exclusive behind the scenes footage.
- Kong’s New York, 1933 - 1930s New York comes alive in this fascinating piece that explores vaudeville, the skyscraper boom, the construction of the Empire State building and more.
- Skull Island: A Natural History - Travel to treacherous Skull Island with Peter Jackson and his crew
You can preorder on Amazon now
King Kong Lands Cover of The Economist
King Kong has made in appearance in the unlikeliest of places - the cover of The Economist.
The venerable British news and business publication is running a feature story about Big Media’s struggle with the digital world - arguing that ViacomDisneyTimeWarnerFoxNBCUniversal… will overcome the threat as they will eventually figure out how to fully capitalize on the promise of the web.
The article begins: “’PAIN is temporary, film is forever.’ That hopeful thought, which found its way into the original script of Peter Jackson’s recent re-make of King Kong, might be seized upon by today’s beleaguered entertainment industry.”
UK Sunday Times: “King Kong brings back the petticoat”
Like many movies before it, King Kong is shaping some of the latest fashion trends.
In today’s Sunday Times, Tony Allen writes that:
FORGET the camisole, the bustier and all the other bits of exotic underwear that have lately become more familiar as women’s skimpy outerwear. The hot international fashion trend for summer this year is likely to be the petticoat.
Several decades after the fashion world’s least fashionable undergarment appeared to vanish from boutique racks, a giant gorilla and his female sidekick are helping to spur a comeback.
not only that …
Fashion gurus have lined up to predict that women tired of the tacky excesses of Madonna-style bras and bustiers would soon be gratefully turning to what one retail executive described as “the new pristine version of sexiness”.
If you haven’t seen them yet, you can check out the new Kong movie TV spots that have been released by Universal. The official movie site has two spots - “Tremble” (:30) and “Unknown” (:30 and :60 versions).
The rawfeed just posted a blurb about “A new “look inside” video about the upcoming Peter Jackson movie, “King Kong,” features never-before-posted scenes from the film, as well as glimpses into some of the special effects used.”.
Head over to apple.com to see the footage.
Audio Interview About King Kong
NPR’s Movies Podcast from this past Friday includes a terrific 15 minute interview with Mark Cotta Vaz, author of Living Dangerously — The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong.
The interview (which kicks off about halfway through the podcast show following an interview with Paul Reiser on his upcoming movie) includes commentary on everything from Cooper’s inspiration for King Kong to why the entire New York sequence almost didn’t make it into the film to whether or not Cooper consciously included bondage and other sexual imagery into the film to Cooper’s decision to rush a sequel – The Son of Kong – out the same year as the original King Kong.
NPR’s Fresh Air from WHYY talks with writer Mark Cotta Vaz, author of the new book Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong. ( amazon link )
You can listen to the interview by visiting npr.org
My wife and I took our son to the Bronx Zoo the other day. Sure, the new Bug Carousel was fun and the giraffes were pretty amazing, but nothing beat the Congo Gorilla Forest - a 6.5 acre African rain forest habitat that includes the largest breeding population of western lowland gorillas in North America.
As you can see in this pic, the gorillas were not afraid to come right up to the glass and my son was completely captivated.
The New Yorker, which arguably comes up with the best looking, most creative covers of any magazine, has two King Kong covers that are worth checking out.
The August 1, 2005 cover, which shows Kong dowsing New Yorkers with a giant Super Soaker, was a really fun way to convey the magnitude of the heat wave that had hit the City that week.
Both of these covers, along with several classic King Kong-related cartoons are available for sale at the New Yorker’s terrific online store.