British
Opera Singer Joins King Kong
Source:
The Dominion Post
Saturday, August 14, 2004
The Dominion Post has learned
that British opera singer-turned-actor
has joined Peter Jackson's
King Kong,
which starts shooting in Wellington
next month.
Lobo Chan, who has sung in British productions of "Turandot," "La Boheme," "The Marriage of Figaro," and in BBC dramas including Sweet and Sour, will play a character called Choy.
What Choy will do in the film is still to be announced, says the trade, but in the original 1933 film, and its sequel, Asian American actor Victor Wong played a ship's cook.
Lobo Chan, who has sung in British productions of "Turandot," "La Boheme," "The Marriage of Figaro," and in BBC dramas including Sweet and Sour, will play a character called Choy.
What Choy will do in the film is still to be announced, says the trade, but in the original 1933 film, and its sequel, Asian American actor Victor Wong played a ship's cook.
King Kong Actress
Fay Wray Dies
Source:
Associated Press
Monday, August 9, 2004
Fay
Wray, who won everlasting
fame as the damsel held
atop the Empire State
Building by the giant ape
in the 1933 film classic
King Kong, has died,
according to the
Associated Press.
She was 96.
Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.
"She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep," said McKay, director of the documentary Broadway: The Golden Age. "She just kind of gave out."
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Wray died Sunday at her Manhattan apartment, said Rick McKay, a friend and director of the last film she appeared in. There was no official cause of death.
"She just kind of drifted off quietly as if she was going to sleep," said McKay, director of the documentary Broadway: The Golden Age. "She just kind of gave out."
Read more about Wray's career by clicking here
King Kong Comes
Down Under
Source:
The Daily Telegraph
Wednesday, August 4, 2004
The Daily Telegraph
reports that filming on
Peter Jackson's
King
Kong
remake will start next
month and work is
two-thirds finished on a
state-of-the-art $10.95
million sound stage in the
Wellington suburb of
Miramar.
Just next to the sound stage, a monster-sized "blue screen" has been built out of freight containers, more than 10m high, to create an outside "backlot".
A ship inside the backlot is a near full-sized model of the Manuia berthed at nearby Miramar wharf. Both ships will become Jackson's version of the SS Venture, the ship that took the great ape from Skull Island to New York.
Universal is targeting a December 14, 2005 release for the film.
Just next to the sound stage, a monster-sized "blue screen" has been built out of freight containers, more than 10m high, to create an outside "backlot".
A ship inside the backlot is a near full-sized model of the Manuia berthed at nearby Miramar wharf. Both ships will become Jackson's version of the SS Venture, the ship that took the great ape from Skull Island to New York.
Universal is targeting a December 14, 2005 release for the film.