Weirum's wife and children filed a wrongful death action against both teenagers, the manufacturer of Weirum's car, and RKO General.

In June 1995, AMC filed a $ 250 million breach of contract lawsuit against Turner Entertainment, which alleged that Turner violated AMC's exclusive cable television rights to the RKO Pictures film library approximately 30 times between July 1994 and April 1995, charging that Turner's objective in violating the contract was " to gain unfair advantage for the Turner Classic Movies cable network ( which debuted in April 1994 ) at the expense of AMC.

When Universal got wind of this, they filed a lawsuit against RKO claiming that they had a verbal agreement from them in regards to the remake.

Richard Cooper then filed a cross-claim against RKO claiming while the publishing rights to the novel had not been renewed, his estate still had control over the plot / story of King Kong.

Weirum's wife and children filed a wrongful death action against both teenagers, the manufacturer of Weirum's car, and RKO General, which was the owner of KHJ.

Among other things, he found that RKO misled advertisers about its ratings, engaged in fraudulent billing, lied repeatedly to the FCC about a destroyed audit report, and filed numerous false financial statements.

They also obtained stock footage from the film The Mysterians from RKO ( the film's US copyright holder at the time ) which was used to not only represent the ICS, but which was also utilized during the film's climax.

In 1991, the couple merged their company, Pavilion Communications, with RKO to form RKO Pictures ( which owns the copyright to the films and intellectual property of RKO Radio Pictures movie studio ).

In 1993 Republic won a landmark legal decision reactivating the copyright on Frank Capra's 1946 RKO film It's a Wonderful Life ( under NTA, they had already acquired the film's negative, music score, and the story on which it was based, " The Greatest Gift ").

RKO originally owned the copyright, but the film was sold years later to American Broadcasting Company, which owns the rights to some of Selznick's other films.

Toho wanted to have King Kong fight their own monster Godzilla instead of the Frankenstein giant in the original story and, after working out a deal with Beck as well as RKO, the copyright holder of King Kong at the time, produced King Kong vs Godzilla.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

Toho had planned to shoot this film on location in Sri Lanka, but had to forgo that ( and scale back on production costs ) because they ended up paying RKO roughly $ 200, 000 ( US ) for the rights to the King Kong character.

He eventually settled for being billed as assistant director and then left Paramount to work with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

Karloff appeared in three of producer Val Lewton's atmospheric B-pictures for RKO Pictures in the mid-1940s, including The Body Snatcher ( 1945 ), which also featured Lugosi.

Sheffield appeared as Boy in the first five features for RKO.

In 1929, Steiner went to Hollywood to orchestrate the European film version of the Florenz Ziegfeld show Rio Rita for RKO.

The score for King Kong ( 1933 ) made Steiner's reputation ; it was one of the first American films to have an extensive musical score ( it was re-used in a number of RKO films, including Back to Bataan.

Since then, former next-door neighbor RKO closed up shop in 1957 ; Warner Bros. ( whose old Sunset Boulevard studio was sold to Paramount in 1949 as a home for KTLA ) moved to Burbank in 1930 ; Columbia joined Warners in Burbank in 1973 then moved again to Culver City in 1989 ; and the Pickford-Fairbanks-Goldwyn-United Artists lot, after a lively history, has been turned into a post-production and music-scoring facility for Warners, known simply as " The Lot ".

This has been done in the case of AT & T, which uses a tone sound followed by a woman speaking the company's name to identify its long distance service, MGM, which uses the sound of a lion's roar, and RKO, which uses a Morse code signal for their motion pictures.

He entered filmmaking on a whim, selling a script to RKO for the 1948 picture Bodyguard, which he co-wrote with George W. George.

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

The blue screen and traveling matte method were developed in the 1930s at RKO Radio Pictures and other studios, and were used to create special effects for The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 film ).

Song of the South was re-released in theatres several times after its original Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Pictures premiere, each time through Buena Vista Pictures: in 1956 ; in 1972 for Walt Disney's 50th anniversary ; in 1973 as the second-half of a double bill with The Aristocats ; in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Harris ' classic stories ; and in 1986 for the film's own 40th anniversary and in promotion of the upcoming Splash Mountain attraction at three of Disney's theme parks.

The RKO comedy Bride for Sale, in which Colbert was part of a love triangle that included George Brent and Robert Young, was well reviewed and modestly successful.

The Secret Fury ( 1950 ), also for RKO, was a mystery melodrama that was widely panned.

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Producer David O. Selznick, then production head at RKO Studios, petitioned the Academy Board of Governors to recognize the work of animator Willis O ' Brien for his groundbreaking work on 1933's King Kong.

William Wyler directed Davis for the third time in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes ( RKO, 1941 ), but they clashed over the character of Regina Giddens.

She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (" Gold Diggers of 1933 "), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.

After 15 months apart and with RKO facing bankruptcy, the studio hired Fred and Ginger for another movie called Carefree, but it lost money.

The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name in 1931 through RKO Pictures.

Stage Door ( 1937 ) is an RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City.

The poem inspired a 1939 adventure film of the same name from RKO Radio Pictures starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Fontaine, and Sam Jaffe in the title role.

With Infinity already owning and managing competing Unistar Radio Networks ( formerly known as the RKO Radio Networks and later as United Stations Radio Networks, which merged with Transtar in the late 1980s ), the two companies were combined under the Westwood name in 1994 ( later spinning off Transtar in 2006 ).

He began with RKO, which immediately changed his name from " Aurness ".

:" Universal thus owns only those rights in the King Kong name and character that RKO, Cooper, or DDL do not own.

Room Service ( 1938 ) is an RKO film comedy starring the Marx Brothers and based on the 1937 play of the same name by Allen Boretz and John Murray.

RKO changed her screen name to Vanessa Brown and assigned her to a series of ingenue roles over the next few years.

The holding company acquired the name of RKO General in 1959 after General Tire dissolved the film studio.