King Kong enjoyed a booming box-office business in 1933; it was one of the biggest hits of that year and it was a shot in the arm for the studio that produced it, RKO Radio Pictures. But the influence of King Kong went far beyond mere box-office receipts. Seeing the film on its first release at Grauman's Chinese Theater at the age of 12, a young Ray Harryhausen decided to find out how the effects were done, which set him on a career in stop-motion animation. Harryhausen worked with Willis O'Brien on Mighty Joe Young (1949), and went on to create the unforgettable effects for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Clash of the Titans (1981), and many more fantasy and science fiction films. Many others in the film industry have cited King Kong as a major influence, including Eiji Tsuburaya in Japan. When producers at Toho Studio there decided to create a monster-on-the-loose in the early 1950s (following the successful reissue of King Kong in 1952), Tsuburaya created the giant dinosaur-lizard Gojira (1954), which was released in America as Godzilla, King of the Monsters in 1956 and spawned an entire industry of daikaiju (monster movies) in Japan. New Zealand-born filmmaker Peter Jackson has also called King Kong his favorite film. Jackson became world famous for producing and directing a trilogy of films adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings beginning with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). He followed up this trilogy with a re-make of his favorite film, King Kong (2005). This was the second remake, following an expensive version by Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis in 1976. Most agree that the remakes pale in comparison to the power and imagination of the 1933 original.