Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to Skull Island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape named Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by...

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. Soon, the line between reality and art collide, and the universe that he has created swallows up everything within it.

Morning glory: An aspiring actress is mentored to success by several Broadway veterans. Little women: Follows the lives of the four March sisters living with their mother in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is ministering to Union troops during the American Civil War. Stage door: A group of aspiring actresses share a boardinghouse in New York City. Philadelphia story: A socialite's wedding plans are complicated by the appearance of her...

New York City is besieged by the monstrous ape, King Kong, a gargantuan ape brought to the city from a remote island by a scheming oil company baron out to exploit the animal for profit.