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...land. The Lovely Bones » Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") tackles Alice Sebold's best-selling novel about a family's grief over the murder of their daughter ("Atonement's" Saoirse Ronan), who's watching from the afterlife. Rachel...

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...as her murderer prepares to kill again. Wahlberg praises the film's Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson but is quick to add he wasn't the only factor that attracted him to the film. "I've made movies in the past I normally wouldn't...

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...day we will have an official ceremony." Weisz stars in the Oscar-buzzy screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's popular book, The Lovely Bones, which is helmed by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson. Weisz seemed a bit surprised to hear that...

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...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, due in theatres on December 11. Based on the 2002 best-seller by...

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...Alice Sebold's novel about a slain girl (Saoirse Ronan) watching over her family from heaven. Jackson said he cried when he read the novel. "If the things that I was imagining that made me cry could be put on screen, I thought this would...

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...Ford told Reuters. Oscar winner Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings" films) is back with a big screen adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel "The Lovely Bones," starring Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon. The film is about a...

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...girl who watches her family from heaven after being murdered. The film, adapted from Alice Sebold's best-selling novel, is Jackson's first major directing role since King Kong. The film also stars Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz, as well as...

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...Dec. 25 The story: Director Peter Jackson takes on an adaptation of Alice Sebold's riveting (and seemingly unfilmmable) 2002 novel about a girl who is raped and murdered but still watches over her family from the world beyond. Oscar buzz:...

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