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...this puts Sony Pictures in the ambiguous position of being simultaneously red-hot and not exactly. After the studio releases Zorro and Godzilla next summer, it's not clear what major projects it will have on its menu. In an industry that retains heat about as well as plastic, the cry is predictable: Show us the movies...
...thrust of a Jurassic Park sequel seems simple enough: get the dinosaurs off the island to run rampant in a big city, a la King Kong and Godzilla. But Michael Crichton's follow-up to his best-selling novel was less a continuation of the original than a rewrite. It provided just two notions that excited Spielberg: the existence of a secret island where the DNA dinos had been created, and a set piece where a T. rex tries pushing a trailer off a cliff after its babies are threatened by scientists...
...Rainbow (1973), rumors have circulated among the faithful that the elusive author was working on two new projects: a novel about Japanese monster movies and one dealing with the 18th century drawing of the Mason-Dixon line between the (then) colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Fragments of a Godzilla-like episode indeed appeared in Pynchon's Vineland (1990), and now here comes a real monster: Mason & Dixon (Henry Holt; 773 pages...
...Godzilla, however, is a special case. When one thinks of Japanese exports, one generally thinks of cars or electronics. Maybe sushi. But definitely not popular culture. There is one growing exception to this trend: Japanese animation, more commonly referred to as anime, from a children's series called Doraemon...
Earlier this month, an 86-year-old Japanese man named Tomoyuki Tanaka died of a stroke. He was none other than the creator of Godzilla, and his legacy is surviving beyond...