planet of the apes

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"Caesar's legacy will continue."

No monkeying around here.

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This shocking list of movies that are somehow rated G includes a psychedelic sci-fi movie and a bloody vampire horror film.

Few franchises have had a more successful or impressive reinvention in recent years as Planet of the Apes. The original series, beloved in its day, petered out by the middle of the 1970s, and the first attempt to revive it, in a 2001 film from director Tim Burton, proved disastrous. But the new prequel series, charting the descent of our human world into a planet full of those damn, dirty apes, has breathed new life into the old property. Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a late-summer hit in August 2011, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes outgrossed it three years later. (It made about $30 million more in the U.S. and a whopping $220 million more worldwide.)

For the first time, moviegoers are getting a glimpse at the upcoming Planet of the Apes reboot starring James Franco. But forget Franco, and forget rubber masks. For Rise of the Planet of the Apes, special effects shop Weta Digital has created computer-generated apes by using next-generation motion-capture technology based on what the company used to breathe life into Na'vi aliens from Avatar and