Released in 2005 under the direction of Peter Jackson and produced by Universal Pictures, the epic remake of King Kong brought the legendary 1933 creature feature into a new era of filmmaking.

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. It’s no secret that Oscar-winning director ...

1933: One of John Cerisoli's models of the giant ape, poised above the New York skyline in a scene from the classic monster movie 'King Kong'. In one of his enormous hands is leading lady Fay Wray, ...

The massive King Kong animatronic on Skull Island: Reign of Kong stands nearly three stories tall and took 18 months to complete Universal Orlando Resort The Skull Island: Reign of Kong ride at ...

William Fischer is an author at Collider. Born and raised in Nebraska, he latched onto moviemaking at a young age and has been chasing it ever since. William holds a BFA in film from the University of ...

This interview was originally broadcast on Dec. 13, 1999. There are many things that make the 1933 movie King Kong great — the special effects, the image of the giant ape climbing the Empire State ...

"No one cry when 'Jaws' die," famed Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis memorably declared about his 1976 remake of King Kong. "But when the monkey die, people gonna cry." Inspired by the ...

The monster movie match-up to end all monster movie match-ups has finally arrived: Godzilla vs. Kong, the HBO Max epic that smashes the two biggest titans of the monster movie genre against one ...

Scarecrows might have been designed to frighten, but an eye-catching collection of the effigies delighted the thousands who ...

The first-person action adventure/third-person gorilla beat-’em-up combo genre has been born in Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie. As the long-winded title suggests, this is ...

With 'Kong: Skull Island' set for a March 10 release, THR takes a look at 11 incarnations of the overgrown beast since his first big-screen adventure. By Kara Haar King Kong first scaled the Empire ...

There is an essay titled Beyond Created 'Stories' by Juichi Yamagiwa, which is included in junior high school Japanese language textbooks. At the heart of this essay is the idea that instead of ...