From xoanon at theonering.net Sun Sep 3 11:55:35 2006 From: xoanon at theonering.net (Michael Regina (Xoanon)) Date: Mon Sep 11 11:47:19 2006 Subject: [Kik_announce] KongisKing.net Newsletter (09/03/2006) Message-ID: Thomas Blackshear's 'The 8th Wonder of the World' Now on Sale! http://www.kongisking.net/perl/newsview/15/1122134766 KONG #79 - 2006 September 3rd, 2006 Here is the weekly newsletter! Enjoy! --------------------------------------------------- Kong Roundup (Top headlines of major interest) --------------------------------------------------- Book Review: King Kong - From Fay Wray to Peter Jackson by Ray Morton While it's easy to assume Ray Morton's 'King King - From Fay Wray to Peter Jackson' is a quick cash-in on the second big screen update of the giant ape's romp, to do so would be missing out on what is easily the most complete collection of Kong-related trivia assembled. Morton digs into them all, including the much maligned King Kong Lives. This is information that's never been featured anywhere. http://www.kongisking.net/perl/newsview/15/1157234981 Peter Jackson to film Dam Busters The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to remake classic British war film The Dam Busters, he has told film industry trade paper Screen Daily. Jackson will produce the movie, with King Kong animator Christian Rivers in the director's chair. Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible". The 1954 film told the true story of how Britain developed bouncing bombs to destroy German dams in World War II. Mel Gibson was going to direct and possibly act in it Peter Jackson Jackson says he first saw the film as a child and "really loved it". http://www.kongisking.net/perl/newsview/15/1157077090 Kong Ornaments Zillaexpert writes: American Greetings has put out Christmas ornaments celebrating Peter Jackson's King Kong. One is a sculpt of Kong fighting a Vrex, with their roars and Anne's screams when a button is pressed. The other is a lesser expensive kong hanging off the Empire state building with sound. Pretty cool! Nice sculpts! Check out the pics! They also have continued with there Godzilla offering-both have sound as well- see the pics! http://www.kongisking.net/perl/newsview/15/1157076978 -------------------------------------------------------- Searching Skull Island (Breakdown of our various sections) -------------------------------------------------------- Coming Soon: September 8th: Thomas Kretschmann Birthday KONG 2005 - This section is specifically dedicated to Peter Jackson's remake. Take a look at cast bios and video production diaries! GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/kong2005/ SCRAPBOOK - (Coming Soon): Currently we are linking to the King Kong section of TheOneRing.net's scrapbook. It has over 300 images from the sets, the actors and the press conference held just before start of production in September of 2004. GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/scrapbook/ KONG FILES - Kong Files are a bi-monthly feature written by John Michlig. Michlig's online article KING KONG: LOST AND FOUND can be seen at http://www.skullisland.net/KongBoomer.html. He's currently working with filmmaker James Mansfield on a documentary entitled EIGHTH WONDER: THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF CARL DENHAM AND THE BEAST-GOD OF SKULL ISLAND, the startling details of which he promises to share in the very near future. GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/kongfiles/ KONG GAMING - A section devoted to everyone Kong Game related! From Chess sets to console and PC games, this is the place you want to be! GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/gaming/ MESSAGE BOARDS - A great place to chat about Kong, PJ, or filmmaking in general. GOTO: http://boards.kongisking.net/perl/gforum.cgi LIVE CHAT - A java chatroom where you can login, meet Kong fans from around the world, and get chatting! GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/chat/ KONG HISTORY: King Kong is back. In 2005, writer/director Peter Jackson, the man responsible for "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, will direct a new, large-scale remake featuring a monstrous computer generated ape to be created by Jackson's special effects company, WETA Digital. However, Kong's origins lay long ago, towards the beginning of the last century in fact. What follows is a history of the great ape's adventures, on both the large and small screen. This history's films and TV series are the one's that were widely released. GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/history/ CONTACT - Do you have a scoop about the upcoming Kong film? Maybe you found some cool news related to King Kong online? Whatever it is, if you think its worthy of the KongisKing.net homepage, then send it in! The process is really easy...simply email us at spymaster at kongisking.net. GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/contact/ KIKN INFO: Whether it is to submit a spy report or to yell at us, we'd love to hear from you! This is a community for Kong fans worldwide and you are a valuable asset to making it work. Please email us your news, comments, complaints, events, etc. GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/kikn/ FAQ: Everything you ever wanted to know about KongisKing.net, Peter Jackson's film, and more! GOTO: http://www.kongisking.net/faq/ That's all for now, keep clicking, have fun and keep sending in those letters! We love to hear from you! See anything you want to add to the site? Have any suggestions as to chat guests, content items, or just want to say hi? 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Both sites are run by my team at The One Ring Inc., I am the editor in chief of both sites, and couldn't be more thrilled. TheOneRing.net (TORN) has been a labour of love for more than 7 years. It was initially setup to follow the movie production of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' films. It has since morphed into a community phenomenon with thousands of fans logging in for their daily dose of Tolkien. All our years of work on TORN did not go unnoticed, Peter Jackson asked us to work on a website for his next film, King Kong, that is how KongisKing.net evolved. It featured one of the first 'video diaries' for a big budget film to be posted online. This has now been copied and imitated throughout the industry, but we did it first! Head on over to the movies.com poll site and be sure to vote for either of us to win! The results will be posted online soon! 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