King Kong | movie news and insight

King Kong the video game scored strongly and came in 8th during the critical holiday shopping month of December 2005. According to stats from gamedaily.com that were released today:

- The console versions of the game have been a critical success, garnering over 80% GameRankings.com.
- NPD has reported that the PS2 version of the game has sold 376,000 copies in just two months, with the Xbox pushing 180,000 units ( make sure to have an hdtv if you grab the xbox360 version ).
- In the U.K., the game has been in the top 5 best sellers for the past seven weeks according to the ELSPA.
- All told, the PS2, PSP, GCN, DS, PC, Mobile, Xbox and Xbox 360 versions have sold more than 2 million copies worldwide.

Like many movies before it, King Kong is shaping some of the latest fashion trends.

In today’s Sunday Times, Tony Allen writes that:

FORGET the camisole, the bustier and all the other bits of exotic underwear that have lately become more familiar as women’s skimpy outerwear. The hot international fashion trend for summer this year is likely to be the petticoat.

Several decades after the fashion world’s least fashionable undergarment appeared to vanish from boutique racks, a giant gorilla and his female sidekick are helping to spur a comeback.

not only that …

Fashion gurus have lined up to predict that women tired of the tacky excesses of Madonna-style bras and bustiers would soon be gratefully turning to what one retail executive described as “the new pristine version of sexiness”.

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Our friends over at HDTV Xbox 360 have confirmed first hand that Ubisoft made the King Kong game too dark for those with non-HDTV sets. The problem seems to stem from that fact that all the game developers tested and built the game while running HD televisions. So for those who have a choice of console version and still don’t have an HDTV, you may want to pickup the PS2 or original Xbox version.

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Interesting story over on CNN.com discussing how “Fictional King Kong mirrors odd island facts”. The basic idea being that animals on remote islands can evolve into massive versions of their mainland kin. Sue Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist and director of the global species program for WWF International makes the case: “There is evidence that this happens because of isolation and a lack of competition … the further an island is from the mainland the more potential there is for the evolution of new species,” she told Reuters by telephone from Rome.

The article goes on to say: “There are many examples of what biologists term ‘gigantism’ on islands. These include the Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards which can be 10 feet long or more and weigh up to 500 pounds. Found on a few small Indonesian islands, the Komodo — a recorded man-eater — is in many ways as chilling as anything from Jackson’s fertile imagination.”

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For those of you who use the Google Earth satellite imaging program ( you can download a free version ), a user who goes by the name of ‘pmaxfield2 ‘, has created a placemark with King Kong on the Empire State Building.

pretty cool !

If you search for ‘king kong’ on google, you will now see an option to lookup showtimes and read reviews.

Should be helpful as we all hunt for tickets !

sites that I follow on a regular basis:

IMD

Kong is King

Killer Movies