Peter Jackson News

Ian McKellen is expected to play Gandalf again in the film version of "The Hobbit." Is Peter Jackson 's Hobbit film actually going to happen? Rumors had been flying for months -- since at least this summer's San Diego Comic-Con -- that it was on, then that there wasn't even a script so it could well be off, then that it was on again.

As I stepped off the plane into an overcast, grey and miserable Wellington, I remembered exactly why it's sometimes called the Windy City.

Peter Jackson omitted a rape scene in 'The Lovely Bones' because he wanted his daughter to see it.

Tolkien's first book is finally heading into preproduction, and Peter Jackson says most of the roles are open.

AVATAR ** DIRECTED BY: JAMES CAMERON STARRING: SAM WORTHINGTON, ZOE SALDANA, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, STEPHEN LANG, MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ a Picture: Complimentary FIRST things first: Avatar is not the most eye-popping, jaw-dropping, movie-topping cinematic experience ever created.

When it comes to remakes, perhaps Hollywood should adopt the old adage of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", because more often than not, the results are disastrous.

Throughout both the North and South Islands, Lord of the Rings fans can tour the film's locations, like Hobbiton.

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.

Action and adventure films aren't always the smartest movies, but the majority are very entertaining.

COLD FEET: Susan Sarandon walks the red carpet at the premiere of The Lovely Bones in Wellington.

AT HOME: Peter Jackson on the red carpet before the New Zealand premiere of The Lovely Bones in Wellington yesterday.

Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy on 6th April 2010 priced at $99.98 SRP.

DRESSED FOR SUCCESS: Peter Jackson and Saoirse Ronan attend a press conference to promote The Lovely Bones in Wellington.

Susan Sarandon and Saoirse Ronan have found a way to spice up their interviews - they're choosing random words, such as "anthropology", "steamboat" and "eyeball", and competing to see who can use the words more in their media comments.

It has been four years since Wellington rolled out the red carpet for a Jackson film .

Peter Jackson is a busy man. In just over 30 years the Kiwi director/producer has flourished from being a wannabe filmmaker with a penchant for splatter and gore, to being a bonafide Oscar-winner with one of the most enviable writing partnerships in the industry.

It should be little wonder that the book, by Alice Sebold, was such a phenomenon.

HOLLYWOOD is still suffering from the financial crisis but Peter Jackson, one of the world's most successful directors, wants to keep making risky movies.

Peter Jackson sees dead people. Or rather, he likes seeing dead people. From the zombies of Braindead to the ghosts of The Frighteners to the Armies of the Dead in Return of the King , the no-longer-living seem to be a favorite subject of his.

There are all sorts of ways to botch a book-into-film adaptation: A filmmaker can be too cavalier about changing an author's character conception or meaning, or he can be so slavishly respectful of those things that he fails to make a work that resonates cinematically.