![]() While Hollywood has battled various forms of film looting for decades, this time seems different. Peter Jackson, the maestro behind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is directing Naomi Watts is stepping into Fay Wray's shoes as the imperiled, scantily clad heroine and the film is rumored to be embroidered with mind-blowing special effects.īut even the mighty Kong may not be safe from the clutches of a nebulous, tech-savvy network of film pirates who specialize in stealing copies of first-run movies and distributing them globally on the Internet or on bootleg DVD's. The new version, aimed squarely at the hearts, minds and wallets of the teenage-to-mid-30's set that Hollywood prizes, has blockbuster written all over it. SHORTLY before Christmas, Universal Pictures plans to unveil its $150 million remake of "King Kong," the 1933 sci-fi classic featuring an overgrown beast with a soft spot for blondes, a craggy, fog-shrouded island inhabited by dinosaurs and a squadron of biplanes buzzing the Empire State Building.
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