Reception
In North America King Kong grossed $9.7 million during its Wednesday opening and $50.1 million over its first weekend for a five day total of $66.1 milion. Some analysts considered these initial numbers disappointing, saying that studio executives had been expecting more. The film went on to gross $218.1 million in the domestic market and ended up in the top five highest grossing films there. The film grossed an additional $332.4 million in the international box office for a worldwide total of $550.5 million which not only ranked it in the top five grossing films of 2005 worldwide, but also helped the film bring back more than two and a half times its production budget.
During its home video release King Kong sold over $100 million worth of DVDs in the largest six-day performance in Universal Studios history. As of April 3, 2006, King Kong has sold more than 7.5 million DVDs, accumulating over $140 million worth of sales numbers in the domestic market. As of June 25, 2006 King Kong has generated almost $38 million from DVD rental gross. In February 2006 TNT/TBS and ABC paid Universal Studios $26.5 million for the television rights to the film.
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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