Re: [MOPO] "King Kong" gets an extended cut

[JR]

koose,   Even though I personally rated Jackson's KONG to be a 7 out of 10 when it hit the theaters (on IMDb some 62,252 votes put it as 7.8 out of 10), I don't see how it can be considered a bust.  Heck, IMDb places it at #36 on the list of all time top money makers world-wide. Box Office Mojo reports its production budget at $207 million and the world-wide box-office take (not counting DVD sales) at $549,216,896 --   http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=kingkong05.htm   ... heck, even if they spent another $100 million on promotion, everyone involved did much better than just "break even" (except perhaps by Hollywood accounting standards). If you figure in the DVD money, I think they probably did very well, maybe getting 3 bucks back for every 1 they spent. Only in today's Hollywood, where if you don't make back at least 5 bucks for every dollar spent can a movie that brings in over half a billion dollars at the box office be somehow considered a "bust". People have got awfully greedy recently.   I'm not about to be suckered into popping for no 3-disc set, but I'll definitely Netflix this extended edition when it comes out. I'd love for the added material to be good enough to allow me to bump my rating up to at least 8 out of 10 if not higher. That was certainly the case with Jackson's LORD OF THE RINGS films... the extended DVD versions are definitely superior to the theatrical releases.   -- JR   ----- Original Message ----- From: David Kusumoto To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 22:59 Subject: [MOPO] "King Kong" gets an extended cut Sure enough, this might be old news to most, but it was news to me.  At the San Diego Comic-Con last month, Peter Jackson talked about yet another "extended cut" he plans to put out on DVD later this year of his box-office bust, "King Kong."  (A bust only because it "broke even" worldwide).  Well at Amazon.com, it showed up.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000H30B2C There will be 13 minutes added to an already LONG-a** film, plus on extra discs will will be sixteen deleted scenes totalling 40 minutes.  A three disc set.  Ridiculous. Peter Jackson's next project is the "small, intimate" adapation of Alice Sebold's 2002 monstrous USA best seller (4 million copies), "The Lovely Bones," which was narrated by a murdered teenage girl who watches how "life goes on" with her friends and family and a killer who's never caught.  I've read the book and my fear is Jackson will turn a "little" story set in American suburbia -- that could probably be made for $15 million tops (the budget for this year's "United 93," which more than doubled its return) -- into an $70 million CGI fest filled with ghosts. -koose. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.