Peter Jackson

...Daniel Day-Lewis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Robert Downey Jr. and directors Clint Eastwood, Peter Jackson and James Cameron, making his first feature since 1997's "Titanic." Pressing questions soon to be...

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...adapted very well. That hasn't stopped filmmakers from trying to crack the code though. There was some promise in "Halo," which Peter Jackson was going to produce and "District 9" helmer Neill Blomkamp was going to direct. Until it fizzled...

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...at Jackson premiere for city Mayor Kerry Prendergast said she was delighted with the news that the New Zealand premiere of Peter Jackson's film The Lovely Bones will be held in Wellington on Monday 14 December. "It has been four years...

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• Oscar winner Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") tells Iain Blair that test audiences demanded a more gruesome ending for one character in the upcoming "The Lovely Bones." As Peter explains, "We got a lot of people telling us that...

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By DAVE BURGESS - The Dominion Post UNIVERSAL MAN: Peter Jackson, creator of The Lovely Bones. Shallow pool for Oscar's actress contenders Peter Jackson asked to up the agony Johnny Depp's massive pay cheque Joe Wright to shoot action...

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...rare that a Hollywood movie intended to find a PG-13 rating ends up adding more violence, but that appears to be the case with Peter Jackson's Oscar contender "The Lovely Bones." Speaking to Reuters, the Academy Award winner says he was...

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Wellington film director Peter Jackson says he has had to take his movie The Lovely Bones back to the editing room to "basically add more violence and suffering". Instead of the common problem filmmakers encounter in having to cut scenes...

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...in agony and suffer a lot more. We had to create a whole suffering death scene just to give people the satisfaction they needed." -Peter Jackson on the ruthless test audience for The Lovely Bones [Reuters via Guardian UK] "I still believe...

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...that they're forced to cut violent scenes, and those edits compromise the director's vision. But Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson found he had the exact opposite problem with his eagerly-anticipated new film, "The Lovely Bones,"...

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