The Lovely Bones
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Director. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter Top 500 1462. Play clip 1:33. A Guide to the Films of Peter Jackson. 1. 27 Videos. 99+ Photos. Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously.
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- Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand
Other notable films include the critically lauded drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), the horror comedy The Frighteners (1996), the epic monster remake film King Kong (2005), the World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) and the documentary The Beatles: Get Back (2021).
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- Peter Robert Jackson, 31 October 1961 (age 61), Wellington, New Zealand
- 1976–present
- Fran Walsh (1987–present)
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003).
- Total (3 films):, $2.993 billion
- 2001–2003
- Total (3 films):, $287 million
- Howard Shore
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Peter Jackson. Highest Rated: 100% Forgotten Silver (1995) Lowest Rated: 26% Mortal Engines (2018) Birthday: Oct 31, 1961. Birthplace: Pukerua Bay, North Island, New Zealand. Though he began...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCreditNo Score YetNo Score YetSelf100%94%Director, Producer99%91%Unknown (Character), Director, Writer, ...26%48%Screenwriter, Producer- Meet The Feebles
- Bad Taste
- The Lovely Bones
- The Hobbit: Battle of The Five Armies
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Braindead
- The Frighteners
- They Shall Not Grow Old
- The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug
- King Kong
The first thing I would do with a time machine is travel back to a 1989 screening of Meet the Feebles and tell a few people that the man behind this depraved sex-crazed puppet acid trip would become the third-highest grossing director of all time with more than 30 Oscar nominations attached to his films. Billed as a spluppet—that's splatter + puppe...
Full disclosure, I think Bad Taste kind've rules, but Jackson's feature debut is clearly a DIY launching pad to greater things. Filmed mostly on weekends over the course of four years and cast with Jackson's friends around Pukerua Bay, New Zealand, Bad Taste follows the battle between the Astro Investigation and Defence Service—that's AIDS, in case...
Jackson just never gets a handle on The Lovely Bones. An adaptation of Alice Sebold best-selling novel, the film tells the story of high-schooler Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), brutally murdered by her neighbor George Harvey (Stanley Tucci) and stuck in a dazzling limbo watching her family struggle to move on. The Lovely Bones is occasionally stunni...
It was always going to be an effort to turn J.R.R. Tolkien's slim Lord of the Rings prequel into three epics on par with the first trilogy and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies is that stretch personified, a two-and-a-half-hour adaptation of a paragraph. The spectacle is there, but that isn't surprising; Jackson had spent most of the last decad...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has a furry foot up on Battle of the Five Armies for a few reasons. Firstly, and this is just pure nostalgia over any technical criticism, it was just really nice to be back in Middle Earth in 2012; to hear Howard Shore's floating themes again, to see the craftsmanship on every inch of the costume design, to just s...
Braindead is the crown jewel of Jackson's pre-Hollywood splatter phase. It's almost like Jackson knew it would be his gory swan song, too, because this movie splatters like no other movie has ever splattered. Released as Dead Alive in North America, Braindead uses the slightest of zombie movie premises—a Sumatran Rat Monkey bites a woman at the zoo...
The Frighteners might be the most obvious example, ever, of a director stuck firmly between his shock indie horror roots and big-budget blockbuster future. It's an incredibly charming supernatural romp starring Michael J. Fox as a psychic who uses his ghost pals to doop unaware clients into paying for an exorcism, featuring endearingly mid-90s VFX ...
Peter Jackson has made a lot of movies with ghosts and ghouls, but They Shall Not Grow Old is the only one that's actually haunted. The filmmaker's only feature documentary, They Shall Not Grow Oldis assembled from hours and hours of mostly-unseen WWI footage pulled from the Imperial War Museum's archives, cut with audio from BBC interviews with Br...
The Hobbit is possibly the only trilogy where the middle chapter had the easiest job. Where An Unexpected Journey had to convince audiences this return trip to Middle Earth was worth it and Battle of the Five Armies had to turn a brief passage into an action epic, The Desolation of Smaug just has to get from Point A to Point B and, at some point, m...
Peter Jackson really freaking loves King Kong. King Kong inspired a 9-year-old Peter Jackson to become a filmmaker. King Kong was the project Peter Jackson was trying to get made before, during, and after the entirety of Lord of the Rings. My guy owns one of the only surviving armatures of the original King Kong model. When Jackson finally, finally...
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10 titles. 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) PG-13 | 201 min | Action, Adventure, Drama. 9. Rate. 94 Metascore. Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
15 titles. 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) PG-13 | 178 min | Action, Adventure, Drama. 8.9. Rate. 92 Metascore. A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
