'King Kong' Bombing Big Time at Box Office

FoxNews ^ | December 16,2005 | Roger Friedman

[Rome2000]

It will be fine.

The movie will make a profit and the masses will be entertained.

I am looking forward to the 2046 remake.

[systematic]

Production Budget: $207 million

Est. Marketing Costs: $50 million

Domestic Total as of Dec. 15, 2005: $16,051,500

[kingu]

I've seen the movie - everyone I know has seen the movie. Everyone reading this has probably seen the movie. Why should we shell out $11 more to see a colorized version of it?

[bigsigh]

and?

[ecurbh]

All these posters around here p!ssing on King Kong actually makes me want to go see it instead of Narnia.

[birbear]

It averaged $2,700 per screen on Wed. and $1700 per screen Thursday.

In comparison Narnia averaged $907 and $1,006 on the same days.

Bareback Mountain averaged $14,112 and $12886 on the same days.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

IT'S COLD, IT'S SNOWING, AND PEOPLE ARE STILL DOING HOLIDAY SHOPPING! PETER JACKSON IS AN IDIOT TO RELEASE THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER - AND ON A WEDNESDAY AT THAT! WHO IS GOING TO GO TO THE MOVIES ON A WEDNESDAY WHEN TEENS ARE IN SCHOOL (PREPARING FOR WINTER BREAK) AND ADULTS ARE GETTING OFF OF WORK? (Hmmm...I got laundry, pick the kids up, cook supper...oh yeah! I got time to watch a three-hour remake! NOT!) THIS IS A SUMMER MOVIE, NOT A WINTER MOVIE TRYING TO WIN STUPID ACADEMY AWARDS!

[birbear]

What' wrong with Naomi Watts, or Adrein Brody anyway?

Like I said, I never heard of Andrien Brody. And I wasn't sure who Naomi Watts was.

If I was tortured, I couldn't tell you anything about either of those two. Not a damn thing.

[marajade]

Um... he released KK the same time he has released LOTR Triology.

[marajade]

Adrien Brody has an oscar for The Pianist and was also excellent in The Village.

[birbear]

Adrien Brody has an oscar for The Pianist and was also excellent in The Village.

Two movies that never made my radar screen.

[marajade]

Well that's your problem.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Um... he released KK the same time he has released LOTR Triology.

Apples and oranges. LOTR had that holiday feel to it. Some movies are made to be released in a certain month. Should "Independence Day" have been released on a cold January weekend?

[HairOfTheDog]

Agreed, marajade... wintertime and the holidays is a really good time to release movies... People got to movies when it's cold out... He released this one about a week earlier than the LoTR movies... and I bet it'll pick up.

There's a lot of big movies out now... Narnia, the Potter movie... it's got competition for it's likely audience.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"I've seen the movie - everyone I know has seen the movie. Everyone reading this has probably seen the movie. Why should we shell out $11 more to see a colorized version of it?"

The LOTR trio of films were well done. Jackson had great material to work with.
This remake had about as much potential as a remake of Godzilla or Wolfman meets the Mummy.

PS The Simpsons Did It!!!!!

It aint Slim W, but this'll gitr done!
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[marajade]

Um were talking KK here...

How would LOTR have a holiday feel to it?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I liked Adrien Brody's acting in "Summer of Sam" too. (Though I didn't like his character - he was gay on the down-low).

[Rocko]

This is Jackson's Folly; I've predicted it ever since I first heard about it. It was a stupid idea for him to remake this classic.

Time for him to go back to his castle and begin working on The Hobbit.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Well, I am hoping to see it tomorrow.

[marajade]

It'll be okay... Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha starts 12/23.

It may not beat Harry Potter or SW this year, but it'll do just fine.