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[[Image:Beau-ti-ful.jpg|left|thumb|260px|King Kong holds Ann Darrow as he 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 over $51 66 million in 2017 2023 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 (as well as the second film in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse franchise), ''[[Kong: Skull Island]]'', produced by Legendary and [[Warner Bros.]] (which assumed co-production after Legendary moved production of the film from Universal), 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 , titled ''Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire'', announced to be released in on March 15, 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.