Early peek at 'King Kong'

Footage from Peter Jackson's movie King Kong is being shown to 200 of the film world's movers and shakers.

The movie's maker, Universal Studios, has flown distributors and exhibitors to Wellington to showcase the "flavour and tone" of the $200 million remake of the 1933 classic.

"We're going to present them with the first footage of King Kong," Jackson said in his online production diary. "Some of the visual effects shots are finished but a lot [are not]."

In an introduction filmed for the executives, he said "a huge amount" still had to be done.

- NZPA