The movies are full of great monsters, but there's one big ape who's enthralled audiences for nearly a century. There's no character in cinema like King Kong, and no matter how many times his story ...

Upon his debut in theaters in 1933, King Kong immediately became a cinematic icon. Though not technically the first movie monster, he was certainly the biggest upon premiere, and the mesmerization ...

A passion project for producer Dino De Laurentiis, the 1976 remake of King Kong marked a return to Skull Island and the giant ape since 1933, when Merian C. Cooper’s original film (and its hastily put ...

I was a budding cinephile when Peter Jackson’s King Kong came out in 2005. And like many, I was excited. It was unavoidable, much like the marketing and subsequent public frenzy of anticipation.

1933: One of John Cerisoli's models of the giant ape, poised above the New York skyline in a scene from the classic monster movie 'King Kong'. In one of his enormous hands is leading lady Fay Wray, ...