November 15, 2005

How Hollywood Manipulates Science

There was a story on Slashdot this morning about new research involving a giant ape. It's awfully coincidental that this research came out 1 month before the King Kong movie. Think I'm being cynical? Listen to this NPR piece on how Hollywood manipulates science (8:54) to promote its movies.

Universal Pictures worked with paleontologists to ensure that dinosaur news would coincide with the release of each Jurassic Park movie. They even had one scientist lie about the discovery date of some fossils by a few weeks, in order to have the discovery date closer to Jurassic Park 3's opening. He was fine with it, since Universal paid for a lot of his research. Universal is also the studio that is releasing King Kong.

Still think I'm being cynical?

Posted by george at November 15, 2005 09:09 AM
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Grape Ape, Grape Ape!

Posted by: Stephen McKenna at November 15, 2005 02:10 PM

I must say what a well choosen picture

Posted by: Jonas at November 16, 2005 04:06 AM

I also recall a bunch of Titanic documentaries on Discover throughout the year leading up to the movie release.

Posted by: gabe at November 22, 2005 01:56 PM

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