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Logic notwithstanding, studios are increasingly grabbing for the brass ring. Warner Brothers last week began production of Exorcist II, starring Richard Burton. Initial budget: $10 million. Next year Warner will release two new megadisaster flicks produced by Irwin (Towering Inferno) Allen: The Swarm (bees do it) and The Day the...
No cuffs, please-at least not on the suit being tailored for Hollywood's newest screen giant. He is, after all, a 40-ft. mechanical gorilla named King Kong, and after months of appalling technical problems, he is almost out of the woods and onto the sets of Producer...
THERE IS STILL ONLY ONE KING KONG, proclaim the Paramount Pictures Dino De Laurentiis ads and posters, and they are right in a way the copywriters never intended. In the $13 million movie's seventh week of production, King Kong still lacks a star. In his race to beat...
Doubtless, with something like $25 million in advance bookings at stake, Italian electronics will win through. Meanwhile, over at Universal, the folks who gave you Jaws and three snappin'-live mechanical sharks have a workable model of King Kong that they are much too gentlemanly to offer De Laurentiis...
Over at Paramount, De Laurentiis is brooding about Kong in a different way. He is building a miniature Manhattan to be crushed by Kong's vast paws. Paramount's Kong is to be destroyed '70s-style with nuclear-tipped rockets, no doubt as he chews on the...