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4 unusual facts about King Kong


All of the Dreamers

The music video features the band setting up their instruments playing the song within the Brisbane CBD, but blown up to "King-Kong" size.

Cherrelle

That song (with a music video homage to the film King Kong, featuring Cherrelle as the beast's love interest) was covered about a year later by pop singer Robert Palmer on his 1985 album Riptide.

Iguanus

Iguanus was featured on the cover of issue #54 "King Con", a parody of King Kong.

Pusher 3

The pugnacious Muhammed warns Milo to respect younger hoods like himself, calling himself "King of Copenhagen", but Milo mockingly calls him the "King Kong of Copenhagen."


Animal Icons

This program tells us about fictional animals from franchises that include Garfield, Godzilla, King Kong, Batman, Spider-Man and Bugs Bunny.

Blake Neely

Neely has contributed to and been credited on dozens of film and TV projects over the years such as: Everwood (which earned him a 2003 Emmy Award nomination for the theme), on the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, King Kong, The Last Samurai, The Great Buck Howard and many more.

Curtiss Falcon

The type was featured in a number of Hollywood films: Flight (1929), Hell Divers (1932) and King Kong, both the classic 1933 movie and the 2005 remake.

David Pajo

As a result he has contributed to many line-ups, playing and recording with Will Oldham, The For Carnation, Tortoise, Stereolab, Royal Trux, King Kong, Bush League, Zwan, Peggy Honeywell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and, most recently, Interpol.

Don DeBrandt

He has also contributed several short stories and non-fiction articles to numerous publications, writing on such diverse subjects as Angel, Firefly, The Golden Compass, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, CSI:Miami, King Kong, X-Men, Wonder Woman, Star Wars, and Star Trek.

Eileen Moran

In 2005, Moran won her first Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture from the Visual Effects Society for her work on Peter Jackson's King Kong.

Fanfare/Don't Dream It, Be It

The fanfare section of this song denotes to admiration of Hollywood film star Fay Wray's performance in King Kong, as Frank wishes he could be dressed as delicately as she was.

Free60

On the Xbox 360, one such exploit exists, relying on and utilizing a modified DVD-ROM drive firmware, a modified burnt disc of the game King Kong (for Xbox 360), and the target console having either one of two vulnerable Kernel revisions.

G-Fan

G-Fan also covers giant monster movies produced outside of Japan, such as King Kong, Them!, and Gorgo.

James Ashmore Creelman

Creelman worked for RKO studios from 1929 and contributed to the storyline of many of the studios's early adventure / thriller films including The Untamed Lady, The Most Dangerous Game, King Kong, Dancers in the Dark and The Last Days of Pompeii.

King Shot

Jodorowsky described the film, which would have been his first since the 1990 film The Rainbow Thief, as a "metaphysical gangster movie." The story was set in a casino in the desert and involved gangsters, the discovery of a man as big as King Kong, and Marilyn Manson as a 300 year old pope.

Kong: The Animated Series

Then, Jetix began airing reruns on September 9, 2005, as a prelude to the release of Peter Jackson's King Kong.

Midi Minuit Fantastique

Some Midi Minuit Fantastique issues were dedicated to special themes (King Kong, Dracula, The Most Dangerous Game).

Prince Charles Cinema

Previous messages have cheered on England in the World Cup, proclaimed the cinema to be the ninth wonder of the world, after King Kong, and even joked about other cinemas in the area.

Ruth Rose

After the success of King Kong, Rose wrote several other movies including Blind Adventure, Son of Kong, She, The Last Days of Pompeii, and Mighty Joe Young, another giant ape adventure.

The King Kong Show

This series is an animated adaptation of the famous movie monster King Kong with character designs by Jack Davis and Rod Willis.

Tucktonia

The park's model London was used extensively in the obscure 1976 King Kong spoof Queen Kong.

Universal Creative

Studio Tour (Flash Flood, Rockslide, Avalanche, Battle of Galactica, Parting of the Red Sea, Jaws, King Kong Encounter, Runaway Train, Collapsing Bridge, Earthquake, The Mummy's Tomb, The Fast and the Furious: Extreme Close-Up, Skull Island Sea, Stunt Show, Whoville, Psycho and King Kong: 360 3-D tour scenes) (1968–2010) (co-produced with Totally Fun Company, Ride & Show Engineering and Weta Digital)

Universal Studios South Korea

The park will most likely include popular attractions from its sister parks, such as those based on King Kong, Jurassic Park, The Mummy, E.T., Shrek and Waterworld.


see also

Aces Go Places

A suave, smooth burglar named King Kong tries to make up for his thieving ways by teaming up with an Albert 'Baldy' Au, a bumbling Taishanese police detective from the United States.

Aces Go Places 2

A James Bond-type burglar King Kong (Sam Hui) and his friend Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl Maka), a bald police detective join forces to try to track down a rare set of stolen precious diamonds before it ends up in the hands of a notorious European mobster named "Black Gloves" (Filthy Harry in the dubbed version and during the English-speaking parts of the original film).

Aces Go Places 5: The Terracotta Hit

When a muscular MSS operative named the Chinese Rambo separately visits Baldy and King Kong (with indirect approval from the Hong Kong Police Force command, who have long since disowned them), both men decide to find those who framed them and clear their names.

Bholu Brothers

Some of his memorable victories are over Haji Afzal, King Kong, Aussie, Clyde Kennedy, Hardam Singh, Gurnam Singh, Hari Ram, Emile Koroshenko, Tony Kontellis, Con Papalazarou, Baron Von Heczey, Bloorma, Sam Betts and George Gordianko.

Donkey Kong

In the case, Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., a United States District Court ruled that Universal had acted in bad faith, and that it had no right over the name King Kong or the characters and story.

Homy Hogs

Tonight Alright (Split with Union Carbide Productions & G.O.L.D.)(King Kong EP-series nr. 3, 1992)

King Kung Fu

The gorilla and the girl end up on top of the tallest building in Wichita, a Holiday Inn and homage to the original King Kong film, where the hairy hero makes a final stand involving instances of stop motion animation.

Radio Bemba Sound System

Many of the songs found on Radio Bemba Sound System, such as "Machine Gun", "Peligro","Mala Vida","King Kong Five" and "The Monkey", are songs originally recorded by Manu Chao's previous band, Mano Negra.

Son of Ingagi

Cynthia Erb, author of Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture suggests that the reason the film's monster does not match the title in the film was possibly for box office reasons, as to have it relate to the popular success of the exploitation film Ingagi (1930).

SubHuman : Human Imprint

SubHuman's May 11, 2011 "King Kong" release was the first collaboration between Bare and Datsik.

The Red Star

This series is colored by the Weta Workshop Design Team, known previously for their film work on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, King Kong, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

The Son of Kong

Today, the original Styracosaurus model is owned by director Peter Jackson, who remade King Kong in 2005.