Day 62 turns the cameras around to to focus on....cameras! Many people have written in asking about the different film cameras used on the sets, what types of cameras are used? How many different cameras are used at the same time? What does a focus puller do? How does one change the focus on a camera sitting on a crane 20 feet in the air? Take a look! [QT6 240x132px 13Mb] [QT4 320x176px 24Mb] [QT6 480x264px 30Mb] [Bit Torrents!]

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The mysterious 'Lewis Carnelian © 1999 writes: BPP (Big Primate Pictures) are moving into Auckland's Unitec School Of Performing and Screen Arts where they are rehearsing a large dance scene for the film. They have employed most of the graduating year of the School Of Dance and have taken over a few of the large studios for casting and wardrobe fittings. They are scheduled to be there from December 10th. There are BPP signs being installed all over the campus.

The Christmas 2004 edition of SFX Magazine features this article on King Kong. Thanks to Gandalf for the scans! [More]

It's not so much an interview with Jack Black but a search for a restaurant. Tom Cardy goes along for the challenge. In A music video for wacky band Tenacious D, members Jack Black and Kyle Gass battle the devil over the world's greatest song. But in real life Black, in Wellington since August for King Kong, had another battle on his hands: being interviewed by phone about the band while searching the city for a restaurant. [More]

Abdullyne writes: Just to let you know that Mr. Shore will be on NY Public Radio tomorrow, on the 'Soundcheck' program. For those who can't get the WNYC station, the program can be heard online. [More]

It is time to come together again to talk Kong! The chatroom has been a great success, however some people have been popping in at odd hours when there is no one to chat with. To that end I've devised a KONG Chat time, a set time and date for all Kong Chatters to meet and have fun! The chat is going on right now! Click here for Java Chat. [irc chat settings: SERVER www.theonering.net ROOM: #kongisking.net]

Two of New Zealand's grandest theatres will be used before Christmas to film scenes for Peter Jackson's $200 million movie King Kong. Secrecy surrounds what will be filmed in the 90-year-old Opera House in Wellington and the 75-year-old Civic Theatre in Queen St, Auckland. But one of the main scenes in the original 1933 King Kong had the 15-metre tall gorilla chained on stage at a New York theatre. Kong breaks his chains and escapes. Filming at the Opera House will take place from next Monday till December 10. [More]

Peter Jackson answers YOUR questions! Today's Production Diary features the first of a series of PD's based on fan questions. Peter has looked through a TON of emails and decided the first topic to showcase is the Art Department. Many fans have asked about the folks in the Art Department, what do they do? How do they co-ordinate their work? What part do they play on a day-to-day basis of filming...all the answers are here!! [QT6 240x132px 13Mb] [QT4 320x176px 24Mb] [QT6 480x264px 30Mb] [Bit Torrents!]

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We live in truly wondrous times. In these days of features-loaded DVD releases and affordable big-screen TVs with room-rumbling sound systems, it's hard to imagine a period when you could not simply pop in CITIZEN KANE to watch on a whim... [Read Entire Article]

It is time to come together again to talk Kong! The chatroom has been a great success, however some people have been popping in at odd hours when there is no one to chat with. To that end I've devised a KONG Chat time, a set time and date for all Kong Chatters to meet and have fun! The next scheduled Kong Chat will be Thursday, December 2nd at 8:30PM Eastern Standard Time. World times are below, if you need more help click here. [Kong Java Chat Room] [irc chat settings: SERVER www.theonering.net ROOM: #kongisking.net]

8:30PM (Thursday) EST in New York, Montreal
5:30PM (Thursday) PST in Los Angeles, Seattle
1:30AM (Friday) in Greenwich
9:30AM (Friday) in Hong Kong
12:30PM (Friday) in Sydney
2:30PM (Friday) in Auckland

LOS ANGELES - Sundance Film Festival veterans Naomi Watts, Laura Linney and Patricia Clarkson are returning with new movies to the nation's top showcase for independent cinema. Organizers on Monday announced 16 titles each in the festival's competitions for independent American dramas, U.S. documentaries and world-cinema dramatic features, plus 12 entries for world-cinema documentaries. The festival runs Jan. 20-30 in Park City, Utah. [More]

Peter Jackson has shed more than 11 kilograms since The Lord of the Rings trilogy finished filming – something he puts down to an improved diet and exercise. After gaining a reputation for looking like one of his on-screen hobbits, Jackson was noticeably slimmer when he began working on King Kong a few months ago. While he initially chose to remain silent on his makeover, yesterday Jackson told The Dominion Post he hadn't been on any particular diet. [More]

Newsweek Dec. 6 issue - Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are indisputably different people, but it is tempting sometimes to think of them as three voices in one person's head. One voice is exuberant (Boyens), one hilariously bleak (Walsh) and one eternally steady and focused (Jackson). It's late Friday night at Jackson and Walsh's house on a bay outside Wellington, New Zealand. The couple's children are in bed, and there are no scenes to shoot tomorrow, so they're lingering over dinner with Boyens, who wrote the "Lord of the Rings" movies with them, as well as their latest epic venture, "King Kong." The wine has been poured—more than once. The conversation has become giddy. "What was the question you asked about the possibility of failure?" Jackson says. [More]

Ian Berriman, Reviews Editor for SFX writes: The new issue of SFX (on sale from Wednesday 24 November) contains an a seven-page feature on Peter Jackon's new project, King Kong. [More]