Kong Is King at No.1 Box Office

Latest Live on MNN now playing on Youtube: Logan and Skull Island reviews. New radio show comng soon with my review of Skull Island. Also in the bonus section: Godzilla 1994 that was never made but written by Terry Rossio who will be the head writer of Godzlla vs King Kong.

http://variety.com/2017/film/box-office/box-office-kong-skull-island-rules-with-mighty-61-million-debut-1202007236/
So far $151M world wide. This should be a little bit higher but still it's not a wash up and that's a good thing. We still have Australia, London, Japan and China in the coming weeks then we'll have a clearer picture what's going to happen with the sequels and of course the big showdown.
4 out of 5. They got most it right. But it did answer a lot of questions. And that opening credit scene with a giant turtle was a good catch for who ever caught it. I blinked and I missed it. Full review coming soon on the next radio show.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/824281-legendary-creates-monsterverse-writers-room-for-godzilla-vs-king-kong#/slide/1
This explains who the writers are for the developement of this franchise. Of course the big question was why the head writer Terry Rossio, co-writer of The Pirates franchise got this gig. Go to the bonus section and that will explain everything. Also being the highest paid writer in the business today doesn't hurt either.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/kong-skull-island-kong-actor-sequel-plans-andy-serkis-blessing-982044
So that is the actor who played Kong with Serkis as his mentor. Great gig if you can get it.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/yoda-may-or-may-not-return-to-future-star-wars-movies-254
Actaully anyone who died can comeback as a ghost as proven at the end of Return of the Jedi. And you also heard the voices of Obi-Wan And Que Jin in Roce Awakens so this makes sense. It would be great to see all of them in #9 in the trilogy. I mean why not?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/guardians-gets-post-credits-first-estimates/
A post credit scene for Infinity War would be nice. But just the idea this would make that much money is plain crazy. And having that Baby Root doesn't hurt either. Merchandising sales alone on that will be huge.

http://theplaylist.net/ridley-scott-says-hes-still-trying-make-sequel-gladiator-20170313/
Ghost Jedi's is one thing but a ghost Gladiator? Wow, that is just desperate. He should have made this sooner. Just to much time in between for anyone to care.

*Bonus Section: The Script for Godzilla 1994 that was never filmed:

http://www.kaijuphile.com/rodansroost/scrapyard/godzillavsgryphon.shtml
This includes last minute changes to go with the budget cut. If Toho got more money this would included King Gidorah instead of The Gryphon.

http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzilla_(1994_film)
This tells the story of the studio making that big mistake of turning down this version and go with Director's Emmerich version which turn out to be Godzilla 1998. Again headless making the wrong decision.

http://americankaiju.kaijuphile.com/american-godzilla/ag94page2.shtml
This includes the beginnings of translating the unused script for a graphic novel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ir1EcagszM
Godzilla Graphic Novel 1994, at the time of publishing only 78 pages were printed.