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November 12, 2018 3:49 PM

Chris Mirjahangir

The first official trailer for Pokémon: Detective Pikachu has been released, as well as a brand-new poster and the film's press notes. More details can be found in the News Section.
Update as of 4:27 PM, an official press release for 2020's Godzilla vs. Kong has been made available, courtesy of Warner Bros., which includes a plot synopsis for the upcoming movie.

November 11, 2018 4:44 PM

Joshua Sudomerski

Jessica Henwick and Shun Oguri join the cast of Godzilla vs. Kong (2020), while director Adam Wingard shares a teaser image of the movie's storyboards. More details can be found in the News Section.

November 10, 2018 12:20 PM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added Godzilla Halloween Print Cookie Review to the Blog

November 9, 2018 3:51 PM

Anthony Romero

Added more details to Rodan 1956 (Showa) in the Monster Bios
Added a German lobby card to Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) in the Movies

November 8, 2018 8:46 PM

Anthony Romero

Added two German lobby cards to Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) in the Movies

November 7, 2018 7:44 PM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added a review of Movie Comics - Mechagodzilla's Counterattack (Akita Shoten) to the Comics

November 6, 2018 1:46 AM

Anthony Romero

Added Space Mons, an aborted 1960's space creature feature, to the Cutting Room

November 5, 2018 6:12 PM

Anthony Romero

Updated the Influences and Remakes of Toho Films in the Blog
Also please note that we are in the process of updating both the blog and the front of the site, as can be seen. Issues on the blog, as we convert entries, should be many but will be ironed out in time. In particular, body text is gonna appear too small and title text way too big... one of many things we are working on.

November 4, 2018 12:21 PM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added Godzilla Halloween Print Cookie Review to the Blog

November 3, 2018 4:31 PM

Chris Mirjahangir

Added Godzilla: Secrets of the MonsterVerse Panel Recording to the Blog
Catching up on some news, Rebecca Hall and Eiza González are the newest additions to the ever-growing cast of Godzilla vs. Kong (2020). More details can be found in the News Section.

November 2, 2018 11:02 PM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added a review of Movie Comics - Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas (Akita Shoten) to the Comics

November 1, 2018 10:54 PM

Marcus Gwin

We've expanded our Toho Film Recommendations for Halloween further, now with my recommendations as well.

October 31, 2018 2:17 AM

Tyler Trieschock

Added Match 243: Orga in Hell... aka Orga vs. King Ghidorah (Heisei), SpaceGodzilla, Gyaos (Heisei), Destoroyah, Gigan (Millennium), MUTO, Goliath, Kumasogami & Desghidorah to the K.W.C. (match by Matthew Williams & Matthew Freese and banner by Matthew Williams)

October 30, 2018 1:18 AM

Anthony Romero

We've expanded our Toho Film Recommendations for Halloween, now including recommendations from both myself and Nicholas. Also, feel free to leave your own recommendations in the comments section as well.

October 29, 2018 1:12 AM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added a review of Movie Comics: Godzilla 1984 (Akita Shoten) to the Comics

October 28, 2018 4:16 PM

Anthony Romero

Added more background and a Mexican poster to Lake of Dracula (1971) in the Movies

October 27, 2018 3:53 PM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added some Toho Film Recommendations for Halloween to the Blog to help get people in the mood with a horror fix

October 26, 2018 1:43 PM

Chris Mirjahangir

Emmy Award-winning actor Alexander Skarsgård is set to join the growing cast of 2020's Godzilla vs. Kong. Also, a press release for the prequel graphic novel Godzilla: Aftershock has been made available. And lastly, a live-action adaptation of My Hero Academia is currently being produced by Legendary. More details for each article can be found in the News Section.

October 25, 2018 1:59 AM

Anthony Romero

Added details, stock footage, background and a Japanese poster to Lake of Dracula (1971) in the Movies

October 24, 2018 6:16 PM

Anthony Romero

Added two United States lobby cards to Mothra (1961) in the Movies

October 23, 2018 5:49 PM

Joshua Sudomerski

Toho has released a promotional animation for the upcoming book featuring a child-friendly take on their famous monster: Chibi Godzilla. More details can be found in the News Section.

October 21, 2018 0:00 AM

Nicholas Driscoll & Chris Mirjahangir

Added Noshi Chocolate Godzilla Store Noshi Review to the Blog
An exclusive image and article regarding Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) have appeared in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine. More details can be found in the News Section.

October 20, 2018 4:59 PM

Chris Mirjahangir & Joshua Sudomerski

Actor Demián Bichir is in talks to join the cast of 2020's Godzilla vs. Kong. Meanwhile, a young Godzilla fan makes headlines with his "Godzilla power", and is treated to an early look at some scenes for 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters. And lastly, scientists at NASA have released 21 gamma-ray constellations, with Godzilla being one of them! More details for each article can be found in the News Section.

October 19, 2018 10:24 AM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added Godzilla Poster Collection Chocolate Review to the Blog

October 18, 2018 10:03 PM

Anthony Romero

Added two United States lobby cards to Mothra (1961) in the Movies... with the last of them being a rather creepy alteration to the Mothra larva

October 17, 2018 1:28 AM

Nicholas Driscoll

We interviewed author Kevin Derendor about his book, Kaiju for Hipsters: 101 "Alternative" Giant Monster Movies, and on obscure kaiju films in general.

October 16, 2018 6:06 PM

Anthony Romero

Added two United States lobby cards to Mothra (1961) in the Movies

October 15, 2018 10:06 PM

Anthony Romero

Added two United States lobby cards to Mothra (1961) in the Movies

October 14, 2018 11:55 PM

Anthony Romero

Added three French lobby cards to Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) in the Movies

October 13, 2018 1:12 PM

Joshua Sudomerski

Added additional trivia to Union Mechagodzilla (Unused Character) in the Cutting Room where its design influence over the Mechagodzilla from Ready Player One (2018) is detailed, information courtesy of Jared Krichevsky
Added additional trivia to Godzilla X Varan, Baragon and Anguirus: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (Lost Project - 2001) in the Cutting Room regarding its reference found in Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse by Renji Oki

October 12, 2018 6:51 PM

Christian Salabert

Hey everyone, over the next month the KWC staff will be looking for feedback through this new survey, which includes voting for your favorite writers, matches and monsters: The 2018 Tohokingdom K.W.C. Survey
Added Match 242: Frankenstein vs. Maguma to the K.W.C. (match by Patrick Alan Green and banner by Andrew Sudomerski)

October 11, 2018 1:18 AM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added a review of Apocalypse Then: American and Japanese Atomic Cinema, 1951-1967 (McFarland Press) to the Books

October 10, 2018 1:01 AM

Chris Mirjahangir & Joshua Sudomerski

Catching up with some overlooked news for Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a January interview of O'Shea Jackson Jr. with GameStop and a 25-minute press conference uploaded by Mulderville have been included in the News Roundup. More recently, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced production of Godzilla vs. Kong in Australia. More details for each article can be found in the News Section.
Update as of 6:54 AM, a new trailer for the third Anime Godzilla movie Godzilla: The Planet Eater has been released
Update as of 11:05 PM, Variety has reported that actor Brian Tyree Henry will star in Godzilla vs. Kong

October 9, 2018 1:54 AM

Anthony Romero

Added an Italian lobby card to Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) in the Movies
Added trivia to Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) in the Movies

October 8, 2018 1:18 AM

Anthony Romero

Added Red Beard (Toho Music) to the Soundtracks, another Masaru Sato score with ties to Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

October 7, 2018 5:14 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to All Monsters Attack (1969) in the Movies

October 6, 2018 9:40 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) in the Movies

October 5, 2018 1:16 AM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to Space Amoeba (1970) in the Movies

October 4, 2018 0:27 AM

Christian Salabert

Added Match 241: Godzillasaurus vs. Rodan (Heisei) vs. M.U.T.O. to the K.W.C. (match and banner by Christian Salabert)

October 3, 2018 0:32 AM

Chris Mirjahangir

Added Anguirus 1968: Toho 30cm Series (X-Plus) figure review to the Toys - special thanks to Entertainment Earth for sending in Anguirus for review!
A new version of the Pokémon: Detective Pikachu logo background has been released. More details can be found in the News Section.

October 2, 2018 0:00 AM

Patrick Galvan

Added Urban Legends: Godzilla + Seven Samurai = Bankruptcy? to the Blog. It's been widely reported for many years now that the simultaneous shooting of Seven Samurai and Godzilla (1954) nearly bankrupted Toho. But now, it's time for some persepective on this rather apocryphal story. Special thanks to Stuart Galbraith IV for his contribution to this piece.

October 1, 2018 0:03 AM

Joshua & Andrew Sudomerski

Added additional info and pictures covering Thrashburg to Environments for Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (Gamecube/Xbox) in the Video Games
Added additional trivia to Bagan (Unused Character) in the Cutting Room regarding its exclusion from Renji Oki's anime Godzilla tie-in novels

September 30, 2018 1:30 AM

Nicholas Driscoll

Added Daiji Kazumine Interview to the Blog

September 29, 2018 8:21 AM

Chris Mirjahangir

Added Godzilla 2016 Frozen Ver.: S.H. MonsterArts (Bandai) figure review to the Toys

September 28, 2018 1:57 AM

Tyler Trieschock

Added Match 240: Godzilla® (Heisei) vs. Godzillasaurus to the K.W.C. (match by Harley Jameson & Andrew Sudomerski and banner by Andrew Sudomerski)

September 27, 2018 1:59 AM

Anthony Romero

Added High and Low (Toho Music) to the Soundtracks, an odd soundtrack which both borrows a track from H-Man and would have a theme reused in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

September 26, 2018 6:35 PM

Chris Mirjahangir

The names of several motion-capture actors for Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) have been shared in an article from Newsweek. More details can be found in the News Section.
The TV sci-fi network COMET is having a COMET / COMET Instagram Godzilla Giveaway! The contest is running from September 20th to October 4th. Rules and prize information can be found in the link supplied.

September 25, 2018 7:30 AM

Patrick Galvan

Added Anzukko (1958) to the Movies and also added a review for this Mikio Naruse film to the Movie Reviews. I was hoping to share these with you sooner, but now that the outage has been taken care of (thanks again to our host for resolving the situation), here they are!

September 24, 2018 8:12 PM

Anthony Romero

Well... the site just experienced its worst outage in a decade, if not longer if one ignores times we have switched hosts. The outage lasted for over 48 hours, almost the entire weekend and a lot of Friday. This was something that was host related. It was regrettable, but at least the host reached out to me, proactively, before I even contacted them about the issue. In all honesty, even though the situation was frustrating, the host did try their hardest, basically having sleepless nights on their part trying to get it up with constant communication. When the site came back but the forums were having issues, the CEO of the company personally responded about it as well, which was a nice touch.

Overall, it was a bad incident made better by the way the host handled it and hopefully an isolated incident, as they have been reliable leading up to this. Anyway, apologies to everyone for the downtime. The amount of emails, texts, social posts and others was touching but also sad to always give the bad news at the time that we didn't know when we would be back... at any rate, the site is totally back now and on to the regular updates.
Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to Throne of Blood (1957) in the Movies
Updated the DVD and Blu-ray release dates... belated in doing so as the title comes out tomorrow

September 20, 2018 6:30 PM

Anthony Romero & Patrick Galvan

Added trivia to Godzilla (Heisei Series) in the Monster Bios
Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies

September 19, 2018 0:43 AM

Tyler Trieschock

Added Match 239: Godzillasaurus vs. King Ghidorah (Heisei) to the K.W.C. (match by Landon Soto and banner by Matthew Williams & Landon Soto)

September 18, 2018 1:50 AM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) in the Movies

September 17, 2018 1:36 AM

Anthony Romero & Joshua Sudomerski

Added Gigan's Ninja Art of Revival Technique to Gigan (Showa) in the Monster Bios

September 16, 2018 6:23 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added more trivia to Matango (1963) in the Movies

September 15, 2018 12:21 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) in the Movies

September 14, 2018 1:48 PM

Chris Mirjahangir & Joshua Sudomerski

Godzilla: King of the Monsters has officially been rated PG-13, while the latest issue of Production Weekly revealed that principal photography for Godzilla vs. Kong is set to begin on October 1st. In the Godzilla anime department, a new poster and story details have been released for Godzilla: The Planet Eater, which gives a much closer look at King Ghidorah. More details for each article can be found in the News Section.

September 13, 2018 7:32 PM

Anthony Romero & Joshua Sudomerski

Added another secondary image to Gigan (Showa) toward the bottom of the bio in the Monster Bios
Cited the heat power of Gigan (Showa)'s laser in the Monster Bios

September 12, 2018 10:57 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia to Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000) in the Movies

September 11, 2018 11:02 AM

Chris Mirjahangir

Updated MFS-3 Type 3 Kiryu Mechagodzilla 2002: S.H. MonsterArts (Bandai) in the Toys to the new format, with the addition of a mini-review of MFS-3 Type 3 Kiryu Mechagodzilla 2002 [Shinagawa Final Battle Ver.] added to the bottom of the page

September 10, 2018 6:40 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added trivia and box office data to Matango (1963) in the Movies

September 9, 2018 1:38 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added more trivia to Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999) in the Movies

September 8, 2018 10:25 AM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added more trivia to Snowman (Showa) in the Monster Bios

September 7, 2018 9:52 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Japanese poster to Attack on Titan (2015) in the Movies
Added more trivia to Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man (1958) in the Movies

September 6, 2018 11:06 PM

Anthony Romero

Added a Howl's Moving Castle cover to the Custom Music File Art in the TK Projects and Media

September 4, 2018 6:13 PM

Patrick Galvan

Added a review for Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man to the Movie Reviews.

September 3, 2018 6:13 PM

Patrick Galvan

Added Muhomatsu, the Rickshaw Man to the Movies, complete with a plot synopsis, cast and crew listing, and some trivia. Expect a review tomorrow!

September 1, 2018 10:20 PM

Patrick Galvan

New article, in before the scheduled maintenance! No doubt all of you have heard the story that Akira Ifukube turned down the job of scoring The Return of Godzilla (1984) by stating: "I do not write music for 80-meter monsters!" Well, as it turns out, that story might not have been true. Special thanks to film historian Ed Godziszewski and Ifukube biographer Erik Homenick for their contributions to this article Urban Legends: "I Do Not Write Music for 80-Meter Monsters!" now available to read in the Blog!

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