Re: Will Kona ever be TRUE 24fps???

Yes, that's a regular question over here: "Why does does such and such a film run for 98 minutes according to the Film books, but when I saw it on TV it was 4 minutes shorter. Has it been cut?"
I remember at the BBC when I worked in Post sound, we had a merry old time dubbing an "Only Fools and Horses" episode, half of which was shot in the UK, and the other half in the US. We had never had to do that kind of job before, but we found that doing everything at 25 didn't work sometimes, i.e. when there was a jump cut from the UK stuff to the US stuff. You could see the difference, marginally, but it was there.

On a related note, I take it this is why there is quite a good deal of PAL shooting going on in the US, because the PAL standard is closer to film, and looks a bit more "filmic" than NTSC, not to mention the greater resolution and better colour accuracy.