King Kong is the 2005 Academy Award-winning remake of the original 1933 King Kong about a fictional giant ape called Kong. It was directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jackson and Fran Walsh, written by Jackson, Walsh and Philippa Boyens, and its cast included 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.

In 1933, Depression-era New York City, actress Ann Darrow has just lost her job at the local theater and is faced with dancing at the local burlesque show to survive. Meanwhile, film director Carl Denham faces the cancellation of his latest movie because of his unorthodox methods and approach to filmmaking. After Carl recruits Ann to replace his leading lady, who joins the film because of the presence of her favorite writer Jack Driscoll, they set sail to evade the police and journey to a remote Indian Ocean island known as Skull Island to find the legendary creature known as Kong.

The film was released on December 14, 2005, and received very positive reviews, though not as positive as the reviews given to the Lord of the Rings trilogy that the director Peter Jackson had previously worked on. The film made a modest opening of $50.1 million, and significantly underperformed expectations at the box office. With a huge marketing campaign and many commercial tie-ins, the release was all-encompassing for the movie market, and was seriously challenged only by its other major competitor, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, However, the DVD set record sales, and the film appears to have strong enough sales to allow Jackson to make his extended edition of the movies.

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