BOC: New Godzilla

Laj Waldner erebus7 at DLCWEST.COM
Thu Dec 17 00:31:07 EST 1998


Warrick Bell wrote:
>
> I just spoke to a friend of mine who runs the G-Con conventions in the
> U.S. and who knows the Japanese guys in the rubber suits and has personal
> contacts in Toho.
> According to him, Toho has yanked Tri-Star's rights to the Godzilla name,
> effectively stopping the U.S. Godzillas in their tracks.  Toho's "Godzilla
> Millenium" is slated for Japanese release on December 13, 1999.  Their
> press release in Japan stated that their reason for pulling the Tri-Star
> licensing was "to make up for the mistakes of the American Godzilla."
> As with most of the Japanese-only Godzilla/Kaiju films, this one probably
> won't be "officially" released in the U.S., though high-quality tapes can
> be obtained from "importers," if you know where to locate such people.
> My friend was unable to tell me, though, if any BOC music would be in the
> new movie.
>
> Warrick Bell
>
> <wbell at techno.king.net>
> http://techno.king.net/~wbell/
> http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/

Since the BOC are going to do a five day tour in Japan, maybe they have
a chance on getting in on that movie :-). I was a little upset when I
heard that there was no "Godzilla" on the American movie, that is until
I saw it.


Laj.



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