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What happens when you have giant robots? You need some giant monsters to go along with it. In the case of Pacific Rim Uprising and the latest Godzilla anime it was time to do some team-up work between the two series. While this isn’t exactly the team-up that director Steven S. DeKnight...
This week we discuss Matango, a Japanese film from Ishiro Honda (director of the original Godzilla) that trades giant monsters for a more creeping, sinister kind of horror. Known in the US as Attack of the Mushroom People, the movie tells the story of a group of famous people who all get sh...
Why waste time leveling Tokyo for the millionth time when you can upgrade your stomping grounds to include the entire planet? While probably not the basic premise that the proposed trilogy’s creators had in mind, it’s where we find ourselves with Netflix‘s new anime, Godzilla:...
Godzilla is getting yet another S.H. MonsterArts figure. This one is from 2002 and focuses on the version of the monster from Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla film from the same year. That was a fun film in the series, and featured a cool version of everyone’s favorite kaiju. After the...
At some point before Pacific Rim Uprising comes out, someone is going to ask if it’s in the same universe as Godzilla or Kong: Skull Island. It would make sense since they both would exist in the same world since Pacific Rim proves that giant monsters do exist at least on some level. When...
Comic book creator Tony Isabella recently purchased a Godzilla sweatshirt from TeeSpring, only to learn that it apparently featured artwork by Todd Tennant without permission or compensation. Earlier this week, Isabella was pleased with a Godzilla-themed holiday sweatshirt he purchased from an...
Proving to be one of the more interesting cross-promotional ideas in recent years, Sanrio is teaming-up four of it’s most popular characters with “The King of Monsters” Godzilla to commemorate Godzilla: Monster Planet, Polygon Pictures’ upcoming three-film franchise...
Toho Studios released a new trailer for Netflix‘s Godzilla: Monster Planet, the first full-length animated Godzilla film from the famed Japanese film production/distribution company. This reboot of Godzilla lore (expected to be the first film in an animated trilogy) takes the franchise...
Netflix continues its commitment to anime programming as the streaming service giant announced from Tokyo on Tuesday that it would adding a dozen new series to its line-up, including a ten-episode Devilman series; and a new animated Godzilla film. Here’s a rundown on what Netflix has in...
A teaser trailer has been released for the new Godzilla anime that was announced last year. No specific release date has been set, but once it is release, it will become available on Netflix later this year. Toho’s teaser for Godzilla: Monster Planet doesn’t show much, but we got...
We don’t know that much about the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters, but what we do know sounds awesome. One of the problems with Godzilla (2014) was that the movie didn’t focus enough on the monster. It ran into the Transformers problem of focusing on the humans instead of the...
Warner Bros. and Legendary Picture’s installments into their MonsterVerse franchise continues to roll along as principal photography having begun on Godzilla: King of the Monsters, their follow up to this year’s Kong: Skull Island and 2014’s Godzilla. It’s being...
We got another step closer today towards the epic smackdown fight of the ages. Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. are continuing to ramp up production on Godzilla vs. Kong as they have signed on Adam Wingard as director. His previous works have been a range of lower-budget independent...
Big giant famous monsters will forever be alive in Hollywood, whether in the classic film memories or in reboots. Just within the last three years, we’ve gotten a new Godzilla, AND a new King Kong. If you didn’t see Kong, you missed out! Especially since it ties into the upcom...
Disney recently moved a bunch of their release dates around, and according to ComingSoon.Net, now it’s time Warner Bros. to do the same. The big one, the 4th entry in the “kaiju-verse” (yes, I’m still calling it that — no, you can’t stop me), King Kong vs. Godz...
This week we talk about the strange “monster mash” of American and Japanese giant monsters with the 1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla from Godzilla‘s own Toho Studios. Listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/castleofhorror/King_Kong_vs_Godzilla_rev.mp3 Listen on ...
Welcome to This Day in Pop Culture History, a daily look at important events, birthdays, and other oddities in pop culture! History is important, and we aim to educate here at Bleeding Cool, so without further ado, here are some things that have happened on April 16, the 106th day of the...
