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Skull Island: Birth of Kong comic trailer

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Following the box office success of Kong: Skull Island, Legendary Pictures have unveiled a teaser for a comic book series which delves deeper into the myths and mysteries of the island.

Titled Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, the comic is both a prequel and a sequel to the American film. They are planning for just a few (monthly) issues and not making this into a long running series. The stories will probably fill some gaps between various instalments in the MonsterVerse franchise.

The battle at 0:30 – the video’s preview image at the time of writing – looks pretty awesome. The filmmakers may be tempted to make a scene out of it in future films, bet the fans are going to love that. They should have just included that in the recent movie though, could be epic.

Regardless, the Kong will be back with Godzilla vs Kong in 2020. It will be the fourth movie in the MonsterVerse series, which also includes Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 2019.

Update – Apparently Legendary has published a graphic novel, Godzilla: Awakening, in conjunction with the 2014 Godzilla film too. Guess the stories are related to this Kong comic in some ways.

Marvel Avengers Assemble movie trailer

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Trailer for Avengers Assemble (or The Avengers, depends on where you live), a Hollywood scifi-action flick starring a bunch of superheroes, and Scarlett Johansson…

To be frank I’m not familiar with Marvel’s comics, and this is the first time I’ve read of the Avengers (and realising that all these superfolks are actually connected). Seems like an interesting movie regardless. Coming soon in April (UK) or May (US).

Marvel Avengers Assemble UK movie poster

SM Entertainment to sue cartoonist

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SNSD cartoon sexual harassmentKorean entertainment agency SM Entertainment is going to take legal action against a cartoonist for his drawing which is said to have sexually harassed their pop group Girls’ Generation.

The cartoon by Yoon Seo-in shows the girls ‘taking exams’ while covered with just a cloth, and with some ambiguous messages. Sexual harassment or not, it’s up to debate; but it has caused uproar among the protective fans.

I find it ironic though, that the company is suing people for a suggestive cartoon when they themselves are busy sexing up the girls to sell more products. The MV of their previous hit, Tell Me Your Wish for example, shows the girls in ultra short pants, and in a few scenes, jumping on bed singing “Tell Me Your Wish.” There’s plenty of rooms for imagination.

Off course that doesn’t mean that the fans are entitled to respond to their fantasy in public in an indecent manner. But countering it with legal action? That’s probably a bit too much for this case in particular… it’s just a freaking cartoon.