Thanks to Diane and Justin for sending word that the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones,” is now available. Jackson’s adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel is due to hit theaters December 11, just in time for Oscar season. It is the first feature he has directed since “King Kong,” in 2005. Jackson introduced the clip looking pretty much exactly like he did at the Comic-Con geek summit. Our guess is he filmed the intro while in California last week. Watch it right here.
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Entertainment Tonight will air the first trailer for Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lovely Bones’ in a few days, meanwhile a teaser of the full trailer has been aired and is now on YouTube, take a look! More…
The plan was to be impartial and emotionless in the printed word and provide interested parties (hopefully you dear reader) all the facts and information from Peter Jackson’s un-press conference in San Diego as possible.
After all, he had 40 or so of us delighted to be trapped in a room with him in a small but luxurious hotel a few hundred meters from the convention center where the world’s biggest celebration of popular culture was taking place. It was the end of the first day of the four-day event and Jackson had swooped into town, showed off his first ever public screening of “District 9,” and then convened Geek Court. Continue reading “Peter Jackson speaks”
In the docu-style, sci-fi thriller “District 9,” which arrives in theaters Aug. 14, hundreds of thousands of aliens become stranded in South Africa after their massive spaceship comes to a standstill above downtown Johannesburg. Unable to fix the craft, this massive population of tentacle-waving, exoskeleton-sheathed aliens eventually outstays its welcome; they become reviled by humans for burdening the country’s welfare system even though all they really want to do is go home. Corralled into District 9 — a rubbish-strewn refugee camp that calls to mind Mumbai’s septic squalor, captured to striking effect in “Slumdog Millionaire” — they are segregated from the general populace by barbed wire. There, the film’s sentient yet excitable aliens are denied such basic necessities as running water and are denigrated by native earthlings as “prawns” for their resemblance to Sasquatch-sized shellfish. More..
Via WENN: Director Peter Jackson is hoping to give his upcoming Dam Busters remake a more “realistic” feel by making the movie in 3D. The Lord of the Rings moviemaker is working on a new version of the classic 1954 World War II epic, shooting the £24 million project in his native New Zealand. And he has revealed his is currently filming experimental three-dimensional footage and if the trial is successful, the whole movie will be given the special effects treatment. He says, “I think a World War Two bombing raid in 3D would be neat.”
Who has the best video of panels at Comic-Con? Why Comic-Con does! The folks there were kind enough (and they want some more hits too no doubt!) to send a link to their HD video with great audio over at YouTube. Of course its embeded here for your viewing ease and comfort. This was at least the third time in about 12 hours that PJ explained to an audience or press that no roles have been cast for the “The Hobbit,” the film isn’t greenlit yet and the process of handing in a finished script for the first of two films was about three or four weeks away. Enjoy!