Warning: SPOILERS for Kong: Skull Island ahead. With Kong: Skull Island, King Kong has triumphantly returned to movie theaters after an absence of nearly 12 years.Though Godzilla, now Kong's franchise mate in Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.' MonsterVerse shared movie universe, has long boasted the title "King of the Monsters," Kong makes a serious bid to wrest that title from Godzilla with
Godzilla is king for total box office. King Kong's movies make more money on average ($262 million worldwide vs. $216 million worldwide), but Godzilla's movies have made more total than Kong's
As we’ve already mentioned, there are a lot of Godzilla movies to mention, so it’s best to start by ordering them in their release date order. Godzilla (1954) Godzilla Raids Again (1955) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) One of the first films involving giant monsters was the 1933 classic King Kong, as developments in cinema and animation enabled the creation of realistic giant creatures. The film influenced many giant-monster films in its wake, including many produced in Japan.There might be no other movie franchise that has stacked up quite as many films as Godzilla and King Kong.Godzilla, which first hit theater screens in 1954, boasts 36 entries, while King Kong
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