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.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)