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Originally Posted by Greg B
Yo! You may well be right about Peter Jackson and 'KK'. Word here in Hollywood is it could beat out 'Titanic' at the box office! That's a fucking big feat to say the least. It would totally blow me away if 'KK' beat 'Titanic' at the B.O. As for 'Narnia', people here are raving about it. It must have something in it more than the trailers are saying. Also, Spielberg has another movie due about Munich.
We may well be seeing some movie history being made soon.
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Hi GregB, I know you are as geeked to see "KK" as I am judging by your earlier posts. I'm hearing its sensational already but I just can't see it beating out Titanic for the box office all time champion. Titanic made $1.8 Billion worldwide to become the number one movie of all time......to put things in perspective, only one other movie in history made over $1 Billion, and that was LOTR: Return of the King......and that didn't make quite $1.2 Billion worldwide..........so that over half a billion dollars difference from the most successful movie ever to the 2nd most successful movie ever, which is staggering.
Everybody knows by now that the thing that pushed Titanic over the edge, despite appealing to every demographic (men, women, young, old) was the ridiculous numbers of repeat teenage girl moviegoers world-wide. Its never happened before like that, and hasn't happened since. It was "Leo-Fever", and even LOTR couldn't match that with their own "Orlando-Fever." Will Kong have the power to approach such numbers? Some critics are already saying this is one of the best movies ever, or to come along in a long time. And it carries incredible emotional power, as I have been hearing repeated reports of sobbing in preview screenings. So my gut tells me this will be the 3rd movie, ever, to go over $1 Billion worldwide. But to beat Titanic? I have strong doubts about that. However, Peter Jackson wouldn't complain about another billion dollar picture. LOTR= $3 Billion........King Kong= $1 Billion? Nah, I don't think he'd mind.......nobody else has even come close to putting numbers like that up in motion picture history.