Daily entertainment news covering King Kong en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 http://www.starpulse.com/ http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/09/28/celebrity_birthdays_september_152 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:00:00 EST Entertainment News 138451@http://www.starpulse.com/news Happy Birthday to:

"Material Girls" actress Hilary Duff (1987)

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The men behind those movies,

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/02/07/j_j_abrams_denies_allegations_that_clove_11 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:20:08 EST Entertainment News 77229@http://www.starpulse.com/news Cloverfield producer J.J. Abrams has dismissed reports the monster movie exploits the trauma suffered by New Yorkers in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the city. Cloverfield follows the adventures of five people attempting to escape from a giant lizard who wreaks havoc in Manhattan - but Abrams insists film goers are wrong to take aim at his movie.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2007/08/03/first_season_celebrated_new_drama_friday_28 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:00:00 EST Entertainment News 54230@http://www.starpulse.com/news Universal City, August 2, 2007 Inspired by the New York Times best-selling book and acclaimed theatrical feature, the Emmy® nominated Friday Night Lights: The First Season debuts on DVD on August 28, 2007 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/28/peter_jackson_to_create_video_game Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:30:23 EST Entertainment News 17056@http://www.starpulse.com/news Filmmaker Peter Jackson has been signed up by computer giant Microsoft to create an Xbox game. The director - celebrated for his digital wizardry in giant ape film King Kong - will produce a series based on the Halo video game franchise, but admits he's still not sure how it will work.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/08/31/peter_jackson_to_remake_the_dam_busters Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:50:51 EST Entertainment News 14723@http://www.starpulse.com/news Peter Jackson has signed to produce a remake of classic British war film The Dam Busters. Christian Rivers, who animated Jackson's last project King Kong, will direct the film which the Oscar winner insists will be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible."

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/04/10/peter_jackson_says_naomi_watts_deserved_ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:00:00 EST Entertainment News 5389@http://www.starpulse.com/news Peter Jackson is outraged Naomi Watts failed to bag an Oscar nomination for her performance in his King Kong remake because she had to work alongside an invisible co-star. Watts only had the giant ape in her imagination when she played heroine Ann Darrow, while the Academy Awards nominees for last month's ceremony acted in less challenging scenarios.

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Read More > ]]> http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/03/28/new_movies_on_dvd_march_28 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:00:00 EST Entertainment News 4620@http://www.starpulse.com/news This week's gigantic release is Peter Jackson's King Kong. The film is set in the 1930s and focuses on a group of explorers and filmmakers who travel to Skull Island to make a movie. Beautiful actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black) encounter King Kong, an enormous gorilla living in a massive jungle with prehistoric dinosaurs. Also in stores this week: Memoirs of a Geisha.

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