Apes in the News.

"'A few people have already asked me why we're taking twice as long to tell essentially the same story,' says the director. 'And I don't really know. We've been asking that ourselves. I'm going to have to come up with a better answer.'" Newsweek's Devin Gordon sizes up PJ's King Kong, and he seems to really like it: Jackson "proved once again that he might be the only guy whose films are worth getting on a plane and flying halfway around the planet to see."