Features The Struggles of King Kong ’76. 1976's King Kong remake was fraught with problems. We look back at its legal battle and the struggle to build a 40-foot robot ape ...

Isidoro Raponi, whose skills brought E.T., King Kong and more to life for millions of moviegoers, has died. He was 76 and died May 27 of congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles rehabilitation ...

Called King Kong Skull Island, the independent project—which has yet to find a network home—is based on Merian C. Cooper’s King Kong, a rewrite of the original novel published in 2005, and ...

The Italian expert also worked on Alien, Gangs of New York, and The Shawshank Redemption. R.I.P. Isidoro Raponi, E.T. and King Kong Mechanical Designer Dead at 76 Glenn Rowley ...

He was 76. Raponi died Friday ... build and operate E.T. for the 1982 Steven Spielberg classic and worked on such other films as King Kong, Alien and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, has died.

In his book, Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong, ... Distribution to the ’76 Kong remains with Paramount Pictures domestically.