Jackson introduced "King Kong 360 3-D" from New Zealand in a prerecorded 3-D video to a crowd of celebrities and media gathered in a soundstage Tuesday morning. Attendees were entertained by African dancers and drummers and noshed on such dishes as shrimp skewers and bite-sized banana cream pies at the jungle-themed soiree before boarding trams.
"Today is the first day you will ever be inside of a 3-D story as opposed to viewing the story from a seat," Larry Kurzweil, president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios Hollywood, told the crowd. "You will literally be as deep inside a battlefield on Skull Island as you could possibly imagine. It's riveting. It's intense. It's perilous."