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==Reception==

==Reception==

[[Image:Beau-ti-ful.jpg|left|thumb|260px|King Kong sits on a ledge of the [[Empire State Building]] in the 2005 version of ''King Kong'', directed by Peter Jackson.]]''King Kong'' was a success for its production company Radio Pictures (later RKO Radio Pictures), earning $2.8 million in its initial release (adjusted for inflation to $51 million in 2017 dollars) and was re-released in 1938, 1942, 1946, 1952 and 1956, with cuts made to the movie for violent and gruesome scenes in those later re-releases due to the Hays Code.  It was followed by a sequel, ''[[Son of Kong]]'' released later in 1933, then made appearances in two [[Japanese]] films from Toho Studios, ''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' and ''[[King Kong Escapes]]'' (both distributed in North America by [[Universal Studios]]), and was remade twice; [[King Kong (1976 film)|once in 1976]] by director Dino de Laurentiis for [[Paramount Pictures]] (with stuntman Rick Baker donning a King Kong suit to play the giant ape), and [[King Kong (2005 film)|again in 2005]] by director [[Peter Jackson]] for Universal (with actor Andy Serkis playing Kong via motion-capture and rendered via CGI into Kong's appearance).  A less-successful sequel to the 1976 ''King Kong'' film, ''[[King Kong Lives]]'', was made by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in 1986.  Another movie in the ''King Kong'' franchise, ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'', produced by Legendary Pictures and [[Warner Bros.]], had its world premiere in London on February 28, 2017 and premiered in North America on March 10, 2017.  Another Kong movie from Legendary and Warner Bros., ''[[Godzilla vs. Kong]]'', is set for release on November 20, 2020.  The original movie was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the [[Library of Congress]] in 1991. A digital restoration of the movie, with all previously-cut scenes restored, was released by Warner Bros. on DVD in 2005 and on Blu-ray in 2010.

[[Image:Beau-ti-ful.jpg|left|thumb|260px|King Kong sits on a ledge of the [[Empire State Building]] in the 2005 version of ''King Kong'', directed by Peter Jackson.]]''King Kong'' was a success for its production company Radio Pictures (later RKO Radio Pictures), earning $2.8 million in its initial release (adjusted for inflation to $51 million in 2017 dollars) and was re-released in 1938, 1942, 1946, 1952 and 1956, with cuts made to the movie for violent and gruesome scenes in those later re-releases due to the Hays Code.  It was followed by a sequel, ''[[Son of Kong]]'' released later in 1933, then made appearances in two [[Japanese]] films from Toho Studios, ''[[King Kong vs. Godzilla]]'' and ''[[King Kong Escapes]]'' (both distributed in North America by [[Universal Studios]]), and was remade twice; [[King Kong (1976 film)|once in 1976]] by director Dino de Laurentiis for [[Paramount Pictures]] (with stuntman Rick Baker donning a King Kong suit to play the giant ape), and [[King Kong (2005 film)|again in 2005]] by director [[Peter Jackson]] for Universal (with actor Andy Serkis playing Kong via motion-capture and rendered via CGI into Kong's appearance).  A less-successful sequel to the 1976 ''King Kong'' film, ''[[King Kong Lives]]'', was made by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group in 1986.  Another movie in the ''King Kong'' franchise, ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'', produced by Legendary Pictures and [[Warner Bros.]], had its world premiere in London on February 28, 2017 and premiered in North America on March 10, 2017.  Another Kong movie from Legendary and Warner Bros., ''[[Godzilla vs. Kong]]'', premiered in the United States on March 31, 2021, with a planned sequel for that movie announced to be released in 2024.  The original movie was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the [[Library of Congress]] in 1991. A digital restoration of the movie, with all previously-cut scenes restored, was released by Warner Bros. on DVD in 2005 and on Blu-ray in 2010.

==Cast==

==Cast==