"Usually movies that crash so quickly underperform as VHS and DVDs."
Then Peter Jackson ought to be thanking his lucky stars cause KK made the most ever on a first day of sale on DVD.
How do you figure? King Kong debuted softly, only making $14 million its first Friday. By its 2nd monday, it was still at $12 million. It's 3rd weekend, it zoomed UP 23%. All of this is a little wierd because of the holiday schedule, but the point remains that the movie, written off as a dud, went on to $218 million. It's total take was was 15 times its first Friday's take, and 22 times its debut's take. In comparison, the DaVinci Code is on track to make only about 7 times its debut Friday's take.