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King Kong is a 1976 American monster adventure film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a modernized remake of the 1933 film about a giant ape that is captured and taken to New York City for exhibition.
Lange made her film debut in the 1976 King Kong, beating actresses Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn for the role of damsel-in-distress. [citation needed] Despite the film's success – it was the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1976 and received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects – it and Lange's performance were widely panned. [22] But film ...
Highest-grossing films of 1976 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Rocky: United Artists: $117,235,147 2 To Fly! IMAX Films $86,600,000 3 A Star Is Born: Warner Bros. $63,129,898 4 King Kong: Paramount: $52,614,445 5 Silver Streak: 20th Century Fox: $51,079,064 6 All the President's Men: Warner Bros. $51,048,435 7 The Omen: 20th Century Fox ...
The Making of King Kong: The Story Behind a Film Classic. A. S Barnes and Co. Morton, Ray (2005). King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon. Applause Theater and Cinema Books. ISBN 1557836698. Ryfle, Steve (1998). Japan's Favorite Mon-Star: The Unauthorized Biography of the Big G. ECW Press. ISBN 1-55022-348-8. Van Hise, James (1993).
Highest-grossing films of 1976 Rank Title Distributor Domestic rentals 1 Rocky: United Artists: $55,900,000 [1]: 2 A Star Is Born: Warner Bros. $37,100,000 [1]: 3 King Kong
The first one was in a September 11, 1976 strip with Snoopy playing as King Kong while holding Woodstock as Ann Darrow (with a brief mention of her co-star Bruce Cabot); [24] and in an August 29, 1976 Sunday strip format where Snoopy is dreaming that his nose is the Empire State Building and Woodstock, as King Kong, is climbing atop of it in ...
Queen Kong is a 1976 British-West German adventure comedy film parodying King Kong. The film was never released theatrically in the United Kingdom, due to legal action by Dino De Laurentiis, producer of the 1976 King Kong remake and RKO, the copyright holder of King Kong at the time. [1] It got a limited release in Italy and Germany.
Jack Driscoll (credited as John Driscoll in the 1933 film) is a fictional character in the King Kong franchise.In the original 1933 film he was the first mate of the ship named the Venture, while in its 2005 remake he was a playwright (the less faithful 1976 remake had an analogous character named Jack Prescott, played by Jeff Bridges).