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King Kong is the Academy Award-winning 2005 remake of the original 1933 King Kong about a fictional giant ape called Kong. This 2005 version was directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jackson and Fran Walsh, and written by Jackson, Walsh and Philippa Boyens. The cast includes Naomi Watts in the role of Ann Darrow, Jack Black as Carl Denham, Adrien Brody as Jack Driscoll, and through performance capture, Andy Serkis as Kong. Much of the crew had previously worked on Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, with the exception of the composer James Newton Howard, who replaced Jackson's Lord of the Rings collaborator Howard Shore due to "differing creative aspirations for the score of King Kong."

Filming was done in Miramar, New Zealand, and the film was released on December 14, 2005. It was rated PG-13 in the US, and 12A in the UK for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images.

The film consists of three sections: the preparations and boat trip, the time on Kong's island and the scenes in New York after the return, with the middle section spanning almost half the film and the other two sections almost one hour long.

King Kong won 3 Oscars, for sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects. The official site for the film has said that the DVD version of it would be released on March 28 2006.

Tagline: The Eighth Wonder of the World

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Carl Denham is a documentary filmmaker whose penchant for "safari films" does not go over well with his studio bosses who prefer to see him turn in a romance film for a change. When he discovers that they would rather sell his films off as stock footage than fund his latest movie, Denham steals the film and quickly organises to leave for his next shoot immediately. Still in need of a leading lady, along the way he meets Ann Darrow, an unemployed vaudeville actress whose theatre was recently closed down due to lack of money. He convinces Ann to join him in his latest movie endeavour and boards a tramp steamer with her; Jack Driscoll - a hapless playwright who has written part of the screenplay - is tricked by Denham into joining the journey in order to finish the story. The ship leaves just in time for Denham to escape the police, who have been sent by Denham's angry studio bosses, and sets off on a voyage to what Ann and Jack believe to be Singapore.

Along the way, Denham reveals they're actually heading for Skull Island, a place unknown to the outside world that Denham believes will make for some spectacular footage for his production. Although the captain of the steamer voices his concerns about their destination, he sets out to find the island anyway. Meanwhile Ann, a fan of Jack's plays, falls in love with the playwright.

Eventually Captain Englehorn discovers Denham has an arrest warrant out for him and decides to change course and head to Rangoon for the sake of his crew. However, a thick fog sets in and they find themselves at the island, crashing the boat into massive rocks.

As the steamer's crew try to fix the ship, Denham, Ann, Jack and the film crew go ashore where they are ambushed by a mob of angry natives. Some of the crew are killed, but Denham and the rest of the landing party are saved by Captain Englehorn. They return to the boat and make preparations to leave, but a native slips on board and kidnaps Ann. She is soon tied up and strapped to a wooden frame that juts across the other side of a massive wall which separates the natives from the rest of the island. The ship's crew arm themselves and attempt a rescue mission, but are too late as Carl watches Ann get taken away by a giant ape.

The crew discover that the ape, named "Kong" by the natives, lives in a massive jungle where prehistoric creatures have been protected and hidden for millions of years. After some discussion, the captain allows Denham and Jack to go look for her, with 15 armed crewmen as bodyguards. As they trek through the jungle, the crew has a number of dangerous encounters with the local fauna, escaping from a Brontosaurus stampede and an attack on the herd by a pack of Venatosaurus, but 4 of them are killed, including Denham's cameraman. When they are crossing a log bridge, Kong arrives and knocks the bridge down a ravine. Several crewmen are killed by the fall, and the survivors find themselves trapped in a ravine with giant invertebrates, including giant maggot-like Carnictis (which kill Lumpy, the ship's cook), crickets-like Weta Rexes, giant land crabs, and many Arachno-Claws that look like a cross between a spider and a scorpion. Most of the remaining crew are killed, but the survivors are rescued by Captain Englehorn. Alone, Jack continues his determined search for Ann whilst Denham (whose camera and film were destroyed in the fall down the ravine), decides to capture Kong and bring him back to New York City.

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