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SFSFF09: Chang (1927): Introductory Remarks by Mark Cotta Vaz
15 December 2009 9:10 PM, PST
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Admitting his pleasure at having been invited by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (Sfsff) to introduce Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack's Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927), Mark Cotta Vaz--author of Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong--extolled the Castro Theatre as "the greatest living movie theater in the world" and the seed of inspiration for his authoring Living Dangerously.
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Peter Jackson Still Pondering a New Take on Gallipoli
15 December 2009 5:10 AM, PST
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He's hardly got a plate as full as that of Guillermo del Toro, but now that The Lovely Bones is in theatres, Peter Jackson still has a few things to work on. There's Tintin and a couple of Hobbit movies to finish, just for starters. But he's still talking about a project that is dear to him: a new take on the Battle of Gallipoli, an attempt made during World War I to take the Turkish Peninsula. It was the first major engagement for the then-new Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac); scores of Anzac troops fought and were killed in the battle.
This may not be as much of a personal dream project as King Kong was, but Jackson has talked about this off and on for years. His grandfather fought in the battle, which lasted eight months, and Jackson was even involved in the restoration of a
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Peter Jackson Announces, Hints At Elaborate Blu-Ray Shenanigans
15 December 2009 4:23 AM, PST
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It has been announced that the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is finally arriving on Blu-Ray April 6th. Currently, Peter Jackson’s only film available in the format is 2005’s King Kong. While the Kong Blu-Ray contains both the theatrical and extended cuts of the film, these Lord of the Rings Blu-Rays will contain only the theatrical versions.
In a recent radio interview, however, Jackson mentioned additional plans to release some of his ‘earlier films’ on Blu-Ray as well in the near future — a list we can only hope covers everything up to 1996’s The Frighteners.
The Lord of the Rings Blu-Ray set will span 9 discs, with the extra features on Standard-Definition DVDs and Digital Copies thrown into the mix as well. Retail price: $99.98.
Updated — Enjoy the trailer for the Blu-Ray
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Peter Jackson Goes Blu-ray
14 December 2009 9:32 AM, PST
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The only Peter Jackson title so far available on Blu-ray is King Kong, a beautifully transferred rendition of the rather underrated film that comes with both theatrical and extended versions on the one disc. Indeed, it is a nice reminder of the superiority of Blu-ray that you can watch the entire extended cut without having to switch discs half way through.
When the Lord of the Rings films hit Blu-ray on April 6th next year, however, they're coming only in their shorter, theatrical cuts. How long until the extended cuts come? Nobody really knows, but as if rubbing salt into a wound, these short-cut BDs are going to contain a special feature plugging the imminent extended editions. More details on what else the discs will offer after the break.
Another altogether less antagonising tease for some upcoming Peter Jackson Blu-ray releases came when the director made a guest appearance on
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King Kong
14 December 2009 6:25 AM, PST
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No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong. I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. It has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age.
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After 'The Lovely Bones,' Here Are Five Novels Peter Jackson Should Consider
11 December 2009 12:00 PM, PST
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There's no denying it. Peter Jackson knows his way around an adaptation. "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy was stellar, as we all know. And "King Kong," for all of it's issues, carried with it the spirit of the original. Now he's on to "The Lovely Bones," Alice Sebold's beautiful-yet-disturbing story of a young girl's trip through the afterlife following her murder at the hands of a sadistic serial killer. He had his work cut out for him there. Making that story something an audience can stomach without succumbing to overblown emotion is nigh on impossible.
I suppose that’s why it’s so strange that Jackson came to direct an adaptation of the massively successful novel in the first place. “The Lovely Bones” is a quiet book, a narrative crushed underneath the weight of trauma and loss, it’s only release in the eventual comeuppance visited upon its
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Interview: Peter Jackson
10 December 2009 6:15 PM, PST
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Trying to figure out why people do what they do, even when you're interviewing them, can be a monumental task - as much for them as for you. Spirits are moved, muses are called upon, and in Hollywood, careers must often be maintained, but getting to the heart of what motivates filmmakers to take on challenges can be confounding because one suspects that it's not altogether different than what prods us in our daily lives - basic interest, casual discovery, or even arbitrary whim. Thankfully, however, with folks like Peter Jackson, there's almost enough information on how he does what he does that dissecting the reasons why seems redundant, or at least unnecessary.
Jackson's latest film is The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold's acclaimed novel of the same name. Suffice it to say that the reasons precisely why this project would become his follow up to four
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Jackson Planning Dragon TV Series?
8 December 2009 5:31 PM, PST
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Director Peter Jackson is rethinking plans to turn dragon adventure books Temeraire into a money-spinning movie franchise, because he's convinced the stories would be better told as a TV series.
The King Kong filmmaker purchased the rights to author Naomi Novik's fantasy novels in 2006 with a view to turning the stories into movies. Five of the books have already been released, while Novik has promised a further four tales to wrap up the series.
But Jackson is having second thoughts about the daunting project and could take Temeraire to the small screen instead.
He tells movie website AintItCool.com, "I can't see any degree of common sense in trying to mount them one at a time as feature films. To me the stories, having read the first ones, already work as this continuing, on-going saga, so I'm thinking 'Is there a marketplace out there yet for a large budget mini-series?'
"...I'm thinking is there actually a market out there that'd give us the budget to do this properly and allow us to shoot this as a six, seven or eight part series where we have freedom, we have great production values and are able to tackle it as the epic saga that it deserves?"
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Early Concept Art: The Gate 3D
7 December 2009 11:00 PM, PST
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One remake we're looking forward to that has a really good chance of being good is Alex Winter's redux of The Gate in 3D. If Winter can capture just a fraction of the original film's charm then we're pretty damned golden. Some concept art snuck online today along with a boat load of details about the film.
Winter will be working from a script penned by himself and Kerric Macdonald. Charlotte Huggins (Journey to the Center of the Earth) and Andras Hamori are producing. The legendary H.R. Giger will be designing the creatures
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When best friends Miles and Terry discover a mysterious crystalline rock in Miles's back yard, they quickly dig up the lawn in search of more. Instead, they unearth the Gate—the opening to an underground chamber containing terrifying evil.
The teenagers soon realize the horror they have unleashed, as one dire event follows another. With supernatural fiends invading suburbia,
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'The Gate 3D' Concept Art, H.R. Giger Designing Creature!!
7 December 2009 10:28 PM, PST
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Monster news regarding Alex Winter's The Gate 3D remake as we got our hands on some early concept art, along with pages, upon pages of details regarding the pic.
One of the most interesting tid-bits is that the creatures for the remake were designed by three-time Academy Award winning FX guru Randall William Cook (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong), and new creature design will be done by H.R. Giger (Alien)!
The classic 1987 children's fantasy, The Gate, reopens after twenty years and this time in 3D format.
On its opening weekend, in August 1987, The Gate outperformed Ishtar (starring box-office giants Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty), and earned North American revenues approximately ten times its production budget. The Gate became the most profitable Canadian movie of 1988, and as such, was awarded the Golden Reel for the highest grossing movie of the year at the 1988 Canadian Academy Awards.
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'Invictus' Dominates In This Week's Box Office Poll
7 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST
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There's only a single brand-new wide release this week, and it's "Invictus." Set in post-apartheid South Africa, the story follows Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) as he joins with the country's national rugby team captain Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon) in the hopes of uniting his scattered nation. In addition to featuring a dynamite cast, "Invictus" also happens to be the latest directorial effort from Clint Eastwood.
Also getting a big opening this week is Disney's triumphant return to 2-D animation with "The Princess and the Frog," which was previously only available in limited release. It opens on more than 3,000 screens this weekend, an even higher number than the 2,000+ for "Invictus." It's a (somewhat) contemporary fairy tale about young New Orleans girl who sets out to find a local voodoo priestess after she is magically transformed into a frog.
A trio of fine options await in the limited release world, offering very
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Peter Jackson and Stanley Tucci Talk The Lovely Bones
6 December 2009 3:34 PM, PST
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Dread Central hit The Lovely Bones press conference in Beverly Hills, CA, where director Peter Jackson, along with the film’s stars Stanley Tucci, Saoirse Ronan, Rose Mclver, Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Rachel Weisz, talked up their cinematic incarnation of Alice Sebold’s best-selling novel.
Centering around lead character ‘Susie Salmon’ (Ronan) who is murdered by child-rapist and killer ‘Mr. Harvey’ (played in the film by Tucci), The Lovely Bones’ source material is at times a challenging read in its portrayal of violence, particularly in the first chapter. The tome though at its core focuses on the effect of the crime on the victim and her relatives, as Susie watches them from a hallucinogenic limbo while struggling with her feelings of vengeance towards her killer and her empathy toward the plight of those that remain. Jackson, whose previous efforts include the rather fantastical The Lord of the Rings trilogy and 2005’s King Kong,
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Game Rant’s 2009 Game of the Year Round-Up
1 December 2009 6:15 PM, PST
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Every year, publishers push to get their high-profile titles into gamers’ hands before Black Friday, leaving a quality-title dead zone until the beginning of Quarter 1. The end of release season also signals the official beginning of Game of the Year speculation. Every big-budget, large-scale, game is now available on store shelves which means players should have a pretty good idea about which 2009 title they enjoyed the most – unless you are holding your breath for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game, which most of us aren’t.
Instead of relying on the outcome of the upcoming Spike VGAs, which in 2005 nominated 50 Cent: Bulletproof and Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game for awards, Game Rant has decided to put together a list of our nominations, along with a bit of commentary, for our Game of the Year choices. As usual, we’re interested to hear what our readers think,
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Peter Jackson Talks Upcoming/Future Projects
27 November 2009 5:54 PM, PST
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An Italian website has an interview up with director Peter Jackson. He talks about some upcoming/future projects, including "The Hobbit" briefly. The text is in Italian, but the video is Jackson himself talking in EnglishPeter Jackson is one of my favorite directors. He is certainly one of the best genre guys working right now. And hearing him talk is always inspiring, mostly because he has an interesting perspective on things, but also because he is one of those people that genuinely seems like they love what they are doing, and as an extent, Deserves to be doing what they're doing.Also, his "King Kong" remake seems to be one of those nerd punching bag movies that everyone loves to rag on. Well, I love that film; it's one of my favorite of the past decade. It's pure escapist adventure emotional filmmaking, and I will never understand the backlash it received.
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Peter Jackson: Looking Fierce Debuting "The Lovely Bones" (Photos)
27 November 2009 6:58 AM, PST
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Director Peter Jackson is busy doing press for "The Lovely Bones," and he's looking fantastic doing it.
Jackson has been in Rome this week for the Italian premiere and he's barely recognizable as the Oscar-winning director of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. He lost 70 lbs between the early 2004 awards and the December 2005 premiere of "King Kong" by eating right and working out, and he got laser surgery to lose the glasses.
The healthier lifestyle clearly agrees with him as this week in Rome, decked out in a tuxedo with his beard trimmed, he looked a decade younger than his 48 years.
"The Lovely Bones" stars Mark Wahlberg, Susan Sarandon and Rachel Weisz and opens in the Us on December 11. Scroll to the bottom to watch the trailer.
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Oscar Watch: 'The Lovely Bones' hits London and the reviews are in
25 November 2009 5:10 PM, PST
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Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" premiered in London on Tuesday night as the 2009 Royal Film Performance and the English papers and domestic trades have already weighed in on the potential Oscar contender. Variety's Todd McCarthy was not a fan saying, "the massive success Jackson has enjoyed in the intervening years with his CGI-heavy "The Lord of the Rings" saga (the source of which receives fleeting homage in a bookstore scene here) and "King Kong" has infected the way he approaches this far more intimate tale. Instead of having the late Susie Salmon occupy a little perch in an abstract heavenly...
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"The Lovely Bones" in London
25 November 2009 9:05 AM, PST
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"The Lovely Bones, which was given its premiere last night at the Royal Film Performance in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, is a domestic tragedy that unfolds under a mushroom cloud of flamboyantly kitsch special effects," reports Wendy Ide in the London Times. "In many ways Alice Sebold's massively successful metaphysical coming-of-age drama was an unexpected choice of movie for Peter Jackson. After the vast undertaking of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, followed by the exuberant, overgrown B-movie that was King Kong, this sentimental tale of a murdered teenager called Susie Salmon [Saoirse Ronan] watching her grieving family from a personal afterlife seems intimate by comparison." Two out of five stars.
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Prince Charles welcomes the stars of 'The Lovely Bones'
24 November 2009 11:17 PM, PST
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Peter Jackson first film since 2005's "King Kong" had its world premiere Tuesday night as the 2009 Royal Film Performance in London. The drama's stars including Susan Sarandon and Saiorse Ronan were greeted by Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales at his annual charity event. Strangely, three of the films bigger stars, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci were not in attendance.
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Clip and Poster From The Lovely Bones
24 November 2009 3:22 PM, PST
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The Lovely Bones is Peter Jackson’s first full length feature film spent in the director’s chair since King Kong, after having spent so many years invested in high budget fantasy and action films. He returns to his roots this time with a very haunting and lovely character story, based on a lauded 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. If you’ve seen the trailer, then you know that the film has plenty of fantastical elements wrapped in a supernatural mold. Ain’t it Cool already has a review of it and lavishes it with profuse praise. While most people have to wait until December 11th for the limited release, MySpace has posted both a clip and a new poster, which you can see below. The poster looks beautiful and artistic, with almost a heavenly use of colors contrasted with the sea of bones under foot. It’s very similar to
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Avatar May Debut at Knowles Butt-Numb-a-Thon
24 November 2009 1:37 PM, PST
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AICN’s Harry Knowles has long cultivated close friendships with powerful filmmakers. Peter Jackson showed him The Lovely Bones before any one else, and now I hear that James Cameron, who often calls Knowles when he wants to promote something, is trying to override studio Twentieth Century Fox’s antipathy toward the Austin-based webmaster (who likes to blast co-chairman Tom Rothman) by giving him Avatar to screen at his annual December 24-hour film marathon Butt-Numb-a-Thon. The Bnat shows classic films as well as such premieres as The Passion of the Christ, Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, Dreamgirls, Chicago, Magnolia, Knocked Up, 300 and …
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