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King Kong

2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 03/28/2006
Features: DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Featurette: THE VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG & KONG Interactive Features: See More of NYC in "Wish You Were Here"
Time:  188  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_2
UPC # 025192626029
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 03/28/2006
Features: DVD Features: Region 1 Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Featurette: THE VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG & KONG Interactive Features: See More of NYC in "Wish You Were Here"
Time:  188  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_3
UPC # 025192626128
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 03/28/2006
Features: DVD Features: Region 1 Snap Case With Outer Sleeve Disc 1: KING KONG (2005) Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Featurette 1. THE VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG & KING KONG Interactive Features: See More of NYC in "Wish You Were Here" Disc 2: KING KONG (2005) Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78 Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English Subtitles - English (SDH), French, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Introduction by Peter Jackson Featurette - 1. SKULL ISLAND: A NATURAL HISTORY 2. KONG'S NEW YORK, 1933 Text/Photo Galleries: Post Production Diaries
Time:  188  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_4
UPC # 025192994524
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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Special Edition Anamorphic Widescreen DVD
 
2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 11/14/2006
Features: DVD Features: 3-Disc Set Region 1 Slipsleeve Snap Case Extended Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 Letterbox - 2.35 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Subtitles - English (SDH), Spanish, French - Optional Disc: 1996 AND 2005 SCRIPTS Disc 1: KING KONG PART 1 Additional Release Material: Deleted Scenes: 16 Deleted Scenes Feature Commentary - Peter Jackson - Producer/Director/Writer; Philippa Boyens - Co-Writer/Producer Disc 2: KING KONG PART 2 Additional Release Material: Trailers Feature Commentary - Feature Commentary - Peter Jackson - Producer/Director/Writer; Philippa Boyens - Co-Writer/Producer WETA Collectables Featurette: 1. THE EIGHTH BLUNDER OF THE WORLD 2. THE PRESENT 3. A NIGHT IN VAUDEVILLE 4. KING KONG HOMAGE Disc 3: THE KING KONG ARCHIVES Additional Release Material: Featurette: 1. THE ORIGINS OF KING KONG 2. PRE-PRODUCTION PART 1: THE RETURN OF KONG 3. PRE-PRODUCTION PART 2: COUNTDOWN TO FILMING 4. THE VENTURE JOURNEY 5. RETURN TO SKULL ISLAND 6. NEW YORK, NEW ZEALAND 7. BRINGING KONG TO LIFE PART 1: DESIGN AND RESEARCH 8. BRINGING KONG TO LIFE PART 2: PERFORMANCE AND ANIMATION 9. THE 1996 KING KONG VIDEO GALLERY 10. THE VENTURE VIDEO GALLERY 11. SKULL ISLAND VIDEO GALLERY 12. NEW YORK VIDEO GALLERY 13. KONG VIDEO GALLERY 14. ARRIVAL AT SKULL ISLAND PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 15. BRONTO STAMPEDE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 16. T-REX FIGHT PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 17. KONG'S CAPTURE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 18. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING BATTLE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 19. ANN DISARMS KONG MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON 20. KONG'S CAPTURE MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON 21. KONG IN NEW YORK MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON 22. DVD CREDITS DVD-ROM Features: Features - INTRODUCTION BY PETER JACKSON
Time:  200  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_5
UPC # 025193167927
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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3-Disc Deluxe Extended Version DVD
 
2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 11/14/2006
Features: DVD Features: Region 1 Slipsleeve Snap Case Extended Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 Full Frame - 1.33 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English Subtitles - English (SDH), Spanish, French - Optional Disc: 1996 AND 2005 SCRIPTS Additional Products: Collectable Packaging King Kong Figurine Disc 1: KING KONG PART 1 Additional Release Material: Deleted Scenes: 16 Deleted Scenes Feature Commentary - Peter Jackson - Producer/Director/Writer; Philippa Boyens - Co-Writer/Producer Disc 2: KING KONG PART 2 Additional Release Material: Trailers Feature Commentary - Feature Commentary - Peter Jackson - Producer/Director/Writer; Philippa Boyens - Co-Writer/Producer WETA Collectables Featurette: 1. THE EIGHTH BLUNDER OF THE WORLD 2. THE PRESENT 3. A NIGHT IN VAUDEVILLE 4. KING KONG HOMAGE Disc 3: THE KING KONG ARCHIVES Additional Release Material: Featurette: 1. THE ORIGINS OF KING KONG 2. PRE-PRODUCTION PART 1: THE RETURN OF KONG 3. PRE-PRODUCTION PART 2: COUNTDOWN TO FILMING 4. THE VENTURE JOURNEY 5. RETURN TO SKULL ISLAND 6. NEW YORK, NEW ZEALAND 7. BRINGING KONG TO LIFE PART 1: DESIGN AND RESEARCH 8. BRINGING KONG TO LIFE PART 2: PERFORMANCE AND ANIMATION 9. THE 1996 KING KONG VIDEO GALLERY 10. THE VENTURE VIDEO GALLERY 11. SKULL ISLAND VIDEO GALLERY 12. NEW YORK VIDEO GALLERY 13. KONG VIDEO GALLERY 14. ARRIVAL AT SKULL ISLAND PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 15. BRONTO STAMPEDE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 16. T-REX FIGHT PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 17. KONG'S CAPTURE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 18. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING BATTLE PRE-VIZ ANIMATIC 19. ANN DISARMS KONG MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON 20. KONG'S CAPTURE MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON 21. KONG IN NEW YORK MOTION-CAPTURE/ANIMATION COMPARISON 22. DVD CREDITS DVD-ROM Features: Features - INTRODUCTION BY PETER JACKSON
Time:  200  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_6
UPC # 025193168023
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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3-Disc Deluxe Extended Edition Gift Set DVD
 
2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 01/20/2009
Features: Blu-ray Features: Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 - English DTS 5.1 Surround - French, Spanish Subtitles - English, (SDH), French, Spanish Additional Release Material: Theatrical Version: Interactive Features: BD Live Features - My Scenes Sharing My Scenes U Control - The Art Galleries Extended Version: Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - Writer/Director Peter Jackson and with Co-Writer/Producer Philipa Boyen Interactive Features: BD Live Features: My Scenes Sharing My Scenes U Control: Picture in Picture U Control: The Art Galleries
Time:  388  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_8
UPC # 025192008283
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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2005 - Rated PG-13 (MPAA)
Release Date: 05/24/2009
Features: DVD Features: Region [unknown] Special Edition Full Frame - 1.33
Time:  188  mins.
J&R Item # 1144008_9
UPC # 025192026423
Label: Universal Studios Home Video
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Special Edition Anamorphic Widescreen Includes LAND OF THE L DVD
 
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Despite his origins as a low-budget filmmaker with a taste for the unsavory side of life, Peter Jackson has turned into an "event" filmmaker--someone who can conjure up a movie on a scale unlike anything we've seen before. KING KONG is his sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it is as big as the gorilla that runs riot through Jackson's rendering of Depression-era New York. Keeping the simple yet effective plot intact--a film crew travels to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up Kong, and brings him back to New York City--Jackson expands on this basic premise by drawing on the jaw-dropping talents of his special effects team to satisfy his thirst for the grand spectacle. The movie posits Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow, the starry-eyed blonde beauty whom Kong falls for; Jack Black as Carl Denham, a low-rent Orson Welles look-alike who drags the crew to the island to make his movie; and Adrian Brody as Jack Driscoll, a hack playwright who battles Kong both physically and for Darrow's heart. As the men struggle against Kong and the lumbering dinosaurs of Skull Island, Andy Serkis, who made the character of Gollum so believable in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, steps in to form the facial features of the mighty gorilla, lending a real emotional sucker-punch to the scenes between Darrow and Kong. But it's the final third of the movie where Jackson really delivers; his 1930s New York is stunning, and when Kong breaks free from his shackles and stampedes on a lovelorn trek through the city, then iconically climbs the Empire State Building with his sweetheart, it's impossible to not be swept away by the sheer beauty and sadness of the moment. While its three-hour length may prove daunting to some, the payoff in Jackson's KING KONG is ultimately worth it, proving once again that he is a director of breathtaking vision.

"Jackson worked fresh magic at his Weta studios in his native New Zealand, where he had Kong do battle with prehistoric predators on Skull Island..." -- Peter Travers , (Rolling Stone)

"[T]he movie seals Jackson's reputation: He's the most gifted big-picture artist working today....What resonates is the story, which is a very human tale of compassion, greed, loss, bravery, creativity, foolishness, and love." -- Grade: A -- Lisa Schwarzbaum , (Entertainment Weekly)

"[Jackson] succeeds through a combination of modesty and reckless glee, topping himself at every turn and reveling in his own showmanship." -- A. O. Scott , (New York Times)

"Jackson is a visionary filmmaker who is not only a technical wizard but also a master storyteller." -- Claudia Puig , (USA Today)

"[A] witty comment on the darkness at the heart of adventure stories, a bazillion-dollar spectacle that reserves the right to question the morality of spectacles, and, mostly, a tender love story about a melancholy girl and her tragically misunderstood monkey." -- Carina Chocano , (Los Angeles Times)

Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[I]t has a marvelous fairy-tale kinetic grandeur....KING KONG attains a primal-pop romantic glory..." -- Owen Gleiberman , (Entertainment Weekly)

"Once in the lost world, Jackson reproduces the breathless pacing of the 1933 film, tipping from one huge set-piece to the next..." -- Kim Newman , (Sight and Sound)

4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's made with love, care, and tremendous intelligence&.This is still a moving love story at heart..." -- Michael Bonner , (Uncut)

"[The] picture does a great job of creating the period of the storytelling....The fantastic mix is energetic and invigorating." -- Widescreen Review Staff , (Widescreen Review)

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