Kong is long, expensive, probably boring

The New York Times is saying today that the first cut of Peter Jacksons remake of King Kong has come in at over 3 hours in length and a budget well over 200 million dollars, substantially longer and one third more expensive than Universal Studios had anticipated. Hollywood has increasingly relied on big releases that bring in as much as half of their ticket sales on the first weekend, but long films receive far fewer showings per day, and must remain in theaters for 4 to 6 months to be a success. Universal lost one venue when an anticipated deal to release the film on Imax screens in December failed to materialize, and Imax chose to show Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire instead.


I know geeks seem to really like Peter Jackson, cause he