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Peter Jackson - news / articles
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Lovely Bones marked new start for Jackson -
22 February 2010
-Peter Jackson was thrilled to direct emotional drama The Lovely Bones - because it was such a contrast to his Lord Of The Rings franchise.-
-The moviemaker headed up the fantasy trilogy, which raked in more than $2.7 billion at the worldwide box office in the early 20
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Jackson couldn't shoot The Lovely Bones' rape and murder -
11 December 2009
-Moviemaker Peter Jackson has defended his decision not to show the rape and murder of a teenage girl in his adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller The Lovely Bones, revealing he felt "morally conflicted about the whole thing". -
-The horrific act is spelled out in th
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Peter Jackson adds to The Lovely Bones cast -
13 July 2007
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson has cast a young girl named Saoirse Ronan in his next film, an adaptation of bestselling novel The Lovely Bones.-Ronan is to play Susie Salmon, the protagonist of the story who narrates from beyond the grave after she is violent
Peter Jackson - what members say
review by from Saffron Walden, England
Great entertainment, but not as good as some of Jackson's other films. 5 October 2004
review by from HUNGERFORD
26 March 2004
review by from BLACKPOOL
4 April 2004
Peter Jackson - filmography
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The Hobbit - Part 1
(2012)
Starring: Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Rob Kazinsky
Director: Peter Jackson
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A band of wandering dwarves shows up one or two at a time. The goal? To hire poor Bilbo for a quest that entails defeating a dragon and recovering a treasure. Along the way there are adventures with trolls and elves and The Battle of Five Armies. But most importantly of all he acquires a peculiar ..read more »
 
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The Lovely Bones
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon
Director: Peter Jackson
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Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings, King Kong) and produced by Steven Spielberg, stars Susan Sarandon, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan.
The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susan Salmon ..read more »
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The Lovely Bones - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci
Director: Peter Jackson
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Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings, King Kong) and produced by Steven Spielberg, stars Susan Sarandon, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci and Saoirse Ronan.
The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susan Salmon ..read more »
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King Kong - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black
Director: Peter Jackson
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KING KONG is director Peter Jackson's sprawling, epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it sees a film crew travel to the mysterious Skull Island, picks up giant gorilla King Kong, and bring him back to 1930s New York City. Despite his origins as ..read more »
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King Kong
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black
Director: Peter Jackson
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It is 1933, and vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) has found herself - like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression - without the means to earn a living. Unwilling to compromise and allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque, she considers her limited ..read more »
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The Frighteners - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Peter Jackson
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For Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox), death is a great way to make a living: ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome "guests". But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam..until frank finds himself at the centre of a dark mystery. A diabolical spirit is on ..read more »
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The Frighteners
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Peter Jackson
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For Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox), death is a great way to make a living: ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome "guests". But he's in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It's the perfect scam..until frank finds himself at the centre of a dark mystery. A diabolical spirit is on ..read more »
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The Frighteners - HD
(1996)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Jeffrey Combs
Director: Peter Jackson
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When his hometown is struck by a series of mysterious deaths that appears to be the work of a malicious supernatural killer, a psychic private investigator (Michael J. Fox) who is able to communicate with the dead attempts to get to the bottom of things and put a stop to the murders. But even with ..read more »
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Heavenly Creatures
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey, Sarah Peirse
Director: Peter Jackson
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After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (..read more »
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Braindead
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Elizabeth Moody, Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver
Director: Peter Jackson
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita (..read more »
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Bad Taste
(1989)
Starring: Pete O'Herne, Mike Miett, Terry Potter
Director: Peter Jackson
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After working on this movie for more than four years on an extremely tight budget (and with a cast and crew consisting only of himself and a group of close friends), filmmaker Peter Jackson eventually completed it with the help of the New Zealand Film Commission, who were very impressed with what ..read more »
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King Kong - HD
Starring: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black
Director: Peter Jackson
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KING KONG is an epic remake of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's 1933 movie of the same name, and it is as big as the gorilla that runs riot through Jackson's rendering of Depression-era New York. Keeping the simple yet effective plot intact a film crew travels to the mysterious Skull ..read more »
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King Kong Production Diaries
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Peter Jackson, Naomi Watts, Jack Black
Director: Peter Jackson
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Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson invites you to join him on a journey into the creation of King Kong. This groundbreaking 2-disc set will transport you onto the set to experience the thrilling highlights of the intense eight-month production. From the first day of filming, to the last ..read more »
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Peter Jackson facts
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...s a massively overdone FBI investigator).
This film isn't as good as some of Peter Jackson's earlier work (Braindead/Dead-Alive, Meet the Feebles and Bad Taste spring to ...
