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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


  • Tolkien's great-grandson calls for Jackson Hobbit - 13 January 2004
    JRR Tolkien's great-grandson has expressed his desire to see Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson make a film version of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. -Royd Tolkien declared, “I would love to see Peter Jackson make a film of The Hobbit. That would be the perf

Peter Jackson - what members say


  • The Frighteners
  • The Frighteners review by from Saffron Walden, England
    Rated - 4 stars Great entertainment, but not as good as some of Jackson's other films. 5 October 2004
    ...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 ...  
  • Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship Of The Ring
  • Rated - 5 stars 26 March 2004
    ...Simply superb. Peter Jackson's interpretation of the Lord of the Rings is stunning. Watch this epic and you won't want to wait for the third installment, Return of the Kin...  

Peter Jackson - filmography


  • The Lovely Bones (2009)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Rachel Weisz,  Susan Sarandon
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A young girl who was brutally raped and murdered, watches the effects of her death on her family from Heaven, as her parents drift apart, her father becomes obsessed with vengeance and her sister grows into the woman she would never be. Based on the Alice Sebold novel.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 56 members
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  • King Kong on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Adrien Brody,  Jack Black
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 80,159 members
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  • The Frighteners (3 discs) on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Michael J. Fox,  Trini Alvarado,  Jeffrey Combs
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,339 members
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  • Braindead on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Elizabeth Moody,  Timothy Balme,  Diana Penalver
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Peter Jackson, master of subversive comedy, presents the story of a hapless young man whose overbearing mother gets him into a heap of trouble when she catches a bizarre zombie virus and starts turning innocent passersby into walking corpses. This grandiose splatterfest features loads of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,104 members
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  • Bad Taste (1989)
    Starring: Pete O'Herne,  Mike Miett,  Terry Potter
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,735 members
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  • The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy Box Set
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Sean Astin,  Ian Holm
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Lord Of The Rings - The Fellowship Of The Ring: In a time before history, in a place called Middle-earth, a dark and powerful lord has brought together the forces of evil to destroy its cultures and enslave all life caught in his path. Sauron's time has come and he needs only one small object - ..read more »
    Rate this: 4.5 stars out of 5 94% from 71 members
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  • King Kong - HD DVD Version
    Starring: Naomi Watts,  Adrien Brody,  Jack Black
    Director: Peter Jackson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,227 member
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