Blacklisted during the release of The Brave One, Dalton Trumbo (seated) finally received the best story Oscar from Walter Mirisch in 1975, 18 years after the ceremony, in recognition that he was the film s real author a fact some still dispute.
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by Gary Baum, Scott Feinberg
April 21, 2021, 6:45am PDT
How Robert Rich s 1957 story win for the film (despite the fact that he didn t write a word) kicked off one of Hollywood s most intriguing credit battles and why it remains unsolved.
On May 15, 1975, Dalton Trumbo was vindicated. One of Hollywood s top screenwriters a committed leftist whose career had cratered under the blacklist before his back-channel maneuvering helped defeat it lay in ill health at his West Hollywood home when there was a knock on his door. It was the producer Walter Mirisch, then the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Oscar in hand.
The new blockbuster movie âGodzilla vs. Kongâ got me thinking back to those frightening kaiju monster movies of the past. I traumatized my younger brother by dragging him to see âRodan, The Flying Monster.â He screamed and ran to the safety of the theater lobby, while I sat there on the edge of my sagging seat watching Rodan to his very last flicker on the big silver screen.
Yes, I was hooked on those Japanese horror films that usually resulted in Tokyo getting stomped to a pancake by some radioactive monster run amok.
Here are my Top 10 favs:
10) âRodanâ (1965) â After being freed by a mining disaster, a pterodactyl-like creature takes to the sky to terrorize Japan. The second kaiju created by Toho after the studioâs success with âGodzilla,â Rodan quickly became a fan-favorite.
The Untold Truth Of King Kong s Creators
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By Sam Scott/April 6, 2021 7:02 pm EDT
King Kong is such a part of pop culture that it seems like he s always been around. Those images of the giant ape, of him fighting with prehistoric beasts, menacing a woman chained to an ancient altar, chained up himself in a Broadway theater, climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes circle for the kill hit on such a gut level and have been reproduced and parodied so often that they have some of the power of ancient legends, those stories that have been around who knows how long and were thought up by who knows who.
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The Wild and Complicated Story of the Rights to King Kong
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In a world where most characters and franchises have fairly simple rights situations, it would be easy to take for granted how cut and dry most of them really are to us outside observers. Great examples are the entire DC Comics catalogue, which is owned by WarnerMedia for the purposes of comics, films, TV, toys, etc; Jurassic Park, which has been in the hands of Universal for almost three decades; and, naturally, Star Wars, fully controlled by Disney and their subsidiary Lucasfilm. Even another Disney owned property, Marvel, whose rights were previously divided all over Hollywood, is now mostly all in the same place (the deal with Sony with regard to Spider-Man will seemingly never expire). If you look back through popular fiction from almost a century ago, however, things get very tricky, and perhaps none are trickier than the titan who returns to cinemas this week, King Kong.