World first exhibition brings King Kong back
15 Apr 2007
Peter Jackson’s King Kong will return in a world first exhibition hosted exclusively by Lower Hutt’s TheNewDowse museum.
The art gallery and museum will host ‘The Imagining of King Kong - The Exhibition’, from 23 June until 11 November.
The museum, which reopened last month after a $6 million expansion, is developing the exhibition with Weta Workshop and Weta Digital. The Wellington studios, co-owned by Jackson, created the Oscar-winning visual effects for the $US207 million ($NZ290m) King Kong movie.
The exhibition will include insights into new technology used in creating visual effects for the film and the secrets to how it was achieved, including thousands of drawings and hundreds of models.
Previous displays of Jackson’s work include ‘The Lord of the Rings’ exhibition at Te Papa, which broke attendance records when 350,000 people saw it at the waterfront museum. More than one million people saw this exhibition when it was shown overseas, including in Britain, Australia and Germany.
Further information:
TheNewDowse
Phone +64 4 570 6500
newdowse@huttcity.govt.nz
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