AUGUST 2009
AUGUST 2009
8-14-09 - Return of the king. Godzilla may stomp back to the big screen : Famous monsters never die. Well, I mean, they DIE, but they always come back for more. But has any monster had more of a roller-coaster career than the one and only “King of all Monsters,” Godzilla?
8-13-09 - BREAKING NEWS - GODZILLA TO RECEIVE A REBOOT? : Rumors are flying around the internet that Legendary Pictures are in initial talks to bring Godzilla back to the American screen. Lets keep our fingers crossed!!!
JULY 2009
7-11-09 - Roland Emmerich's Godzilla Stomping onto Blu-ray : Roland Emmerich's upcoming apocalyptic thriller 2012 appears to have persuaded Sony to bring one of his prior big budget action movies onto Blu-ray Disc November 3rd.
JUNE 2009
6-11-09 - Interview: Godzilla Expert David Wilt : Godzilla! Is! Coming! From giant crustaceans (Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster) to UFOs (Godzilla 2000) and even a flying, three-headed daikaiju (Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah), the Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden’s Summer Camp film series, OMGodzilla!, offers an overview of the Japanese beastie’s weirdest adventures.
6-9-09 - Godzilla 1954 Coming to Blu-Ray in September : First Godzilla movie on blu-ray Sept 22nd!!!
MAY 2009
5-22-09 - Looking Back on Godzilla 1998 : With Star Trek successfully -- for the most part -- re-imagined and re-booted (and make no mistake, J.J. Abrams' film is a re-imagination...), I thought it might prove an interesting and illuminating exercise to turn our gaze here on the blog towards other movie re-imaginations of recent vintage.
NOVEMBER 2008
11-18-08 - Godzilla tree terrorises city : Be afraid. Be very afraid. Just when you thought it was safe to go into the garden. If you have ever been scared of trees or a giant lizard monster, then this is not the story for you. This large bit of greenery bares more than a passing resemblence to one of cinema's greatest creations.
11-12-08 - Godzilla Finally Arrives To Stomp Your Gaming Table To Dust : The arrival of Monsterpocalypse last month served to fill a void in the gaming world. But for some kaiju fans, there was still something missing - their favorite movie monsters. A new game is in development by veteran game designer Richard Berg that will feature Godzilla himself, along with some of his very tall friends.
JULY 2008
7-23-08 - Godzilla set to attack Celebration of Light : Atomic super-monster Godzilla will rise from the slate-grey waters of English Bay and light up the sky with fire tonight with the kick-off of Vancouver’s signature summer festival, the HSBC Celebration of Light.
7-23-08 - Son of Godzilla on TCM : The 1967 movie Son of Godzilla will be shown on Turner Classic Movie on July 31, at 2:15pm Eastern Time.
APRIL 2008
4-21-08 - How 'Godzilla' led to 'Cloverfield' : Visiting Tokyo with his son a few years ago, producer J.J. Abrams was struck by the omnipresence of Godzilla in toy stores half a century after the giant reptile first terrorized Japan.
4-19-08 - Not your parents' Godzilla : Article on the 1954 original film.
4-17-08 - Subway Sued by Toho Over Unauthorized Godzilla Advertisements : Subway, the largest U.S. restaurant chain, was sued by Toho Co., the Japanese maker of the Godzilla movies, which said the prehistoric monster was used without permission in Subway's television advertisements.
FEBRUARY 2008
2-14-08 - Terror of Mechagodzilla DVD : For those of you who dont know, 1975's Terror of Mechagodzilla and 1969's Godzilla's Revenge (renamed All Monsters Attack) will be released on DVD April 29th, 2008. There will be available separately after being released as part of the Godzilla Collection last November.
2-11-08 - Sony Postpones 'Godzilla' Blu-ray : Sony has announced a street date postponement for 'Godzilla,' pushing back its planned March Blu-ray debut to tweak the disc's bonus features. As we've previously reported, Sony first announced back in October that it was bringing the 1998 Roland Emmerich-remake of Godzilla' to Blu-ray on March 28, 2008 (day-and-date with a new special edition DVD re-issue).
2-11-08 - ProGames Network Brings Godzilla to Mobile Gamers Worldwide : Continuing its
commitment to providing mobile gamers with the latest in branded
entertainment, ProGames Network, a subsidiary of MobilePro Corp. (OTC
Bulletin Board: MOBL), is pleased to announce the addition of "Godzilla -
Monster Mayhem" to its mobile games inventory. The company owns worldwide
rights, with the exception of Japan, to the distribution of the game, based
on the cult-classic movie Godzilla.
2-7-08 - Man Asleep Under Godzilla Statue : This guy had a few too many!!
JANUARY 2008
1-31-08 - Cloverfield 2 In Talks : Cloverfield’s unseen monster is ready to strike back. Ready to capitalize in the success of Cloverfield, Paramount Pictures are already considering a sequel to the monster movie signed by Matt Reeves.
1-31-08 - The Enemy Within - Article on GMK and Japan :
One of the last Godzilla films, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, challenges Japan to confront its own war guilt.
1-21-08 - Review of Godzilla Unleashed : I do game reviews for a kids' website most of the time. One of the things that helps me get a solid perspective on things is having my 11-year-old son play games with me. Recently we took a stab at Atari's new Godzilla game, Godzilla Unleashed, for PS2 and Wii. I was a bit guarded at first, because I'd been following the game for a while and had posted some early gameplay videos that, to be charitable, were ugly.
1-21-08 - 'Cloverfield' Clobbers MLK Record: After months of hype, Cloverfield lumbered to the top of the weekend box office, raking in an estimated $46 million over the four-day Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. 27 Dresses opened strongly in second place, while The Bucket List had a healthy hold, contributing to one of the busiest MLK frames on record.
1-19-08 - 'Godzilla' provides power on MMA training ship : ABOARD T.S. ENTERPRISE — Her proper name is Wärtsilä. But the noise and heat she generates lend her an apt nickname — Godzilla.
She's the 1,500 kilowatt diesel generator tied down in the bowels of the ship's hot engine room — really a maze of steel and pipes, islands of pumps jutting up through grated walkways, and walls of tubing in a cavity that runs, deck after deck, from underwater up to the top of the ship's stacks.
1/18/08 - Interview With Steve Ryfle - Godzilla vs Cloverfield : Turns out, it is. The Godzilla Collection, an amazing, newly released set by Classic Media, reveals that Godzilla, the original Japanese smasher of cities, has been setting the standard for monster mayhem for decades. To find out more, we checked in with Godzilla expert Steve Ryfle, who contributed to the DVD collection's special features and produced the audio commentaries—and who, by the way, is also a friend—to find out more about monster brains, rubber suits and a desire for world peace.
1-18-08 - Article From The Boston Herald - Godzilla helps us conquer our anxieties : Why do we carry a torch for Godzilla? In his landmark “Illustrated History of the Horror Film,” film scholar Carlos Clarens famously asserts that the giant-monster and other sci-fi-horror hybrids of the 1950s and ’60s were the psychic offspring of the Bomb.
1-08-08 -Sony Has Seen The Future, And The Future Is Godzilla Ringtones : After explaining that "home video is no longer an ancillary market, now it's a PRIMARY market", Dean Devlin dropped a radioactive bomb on us. According to Devlin, those people who own a Sony Blu-Ray™ device "will now be able to see Godzilla as we always intended." We laughed out loud, only to quickly learn that it wasn't a stand-up performance. While we appreciate the marketing rationale on a certain level (we suppose it makes sense to try and capitalize on the American public's renewed interest in giant lizards rampaging through lower Manhattan), we can't help but wonder why Sony picked Godzilla from their massive library to push their blazing new format on the masses.
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