The Lovely Bones: who has seen this movie? :)

[peewee_toot]

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dugaya pa d i ani oi. cant wait...

[bleed214]

now i wanna read the book . the movie looks promising, and u can't go wrong with Peter Jackson

[peewee_toot]

^^pila kha ang book ani sis?

[sharkey360]

Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated “The Lovely Bones” will have its world premiere as the Royal Film Performance 2009 at Leicester Square in London late next month. The principal fundraising event of The Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), all money raised from the event will go directly to the charity, which supports film and TV employees and their families in times of hardship.

“We are delighted to be able to premiere a film of such distinction for the Royal Film Performance 2009,” CTBF President, David Murrell said. “This will be a truly world-class event, attended by an internationally acclaimed director and cast and members of the Royal Family. We are truly grateful to Paramount Pictures for arranging this special premiere two months ahead of UK release and to the Royal Family for their unstinted support of this exceptional fundraising event.”

Source - 'Lovely Bones' To Premiere For Charity - indieWIRE

[peewee_toot]

worth the wait dw ni ingon akong miga.

[sharkey360]

Five years ago, while Peter Jackson was immersed in directing his large-scale remake of "King Kong" for Universal, executive Mary Parent mentioned a project the studio was developing based on the wildly popular video game "Halo."

Jackson was intrigued. He loved to play "Halo" with his two teenage children; his special effects company, New Zealand-based WETA, seemed perfect to handle the FX; and a 15% tax rebate made a Kiwi shoot ideal for Universal and co-financier Fox. So Jackson agreed to produce, alongside his lifetime partner Fran Walsh and their colleague Carolynne Cunningham.

Jackson would not direct, but he would find a promising young helmer to work under his supervision. When Parent suggested Neill Blomkamp, based on a short film of his she'd seen, the South Africa-born filmmaker left his home in Vancouver and flew to meet the Jackson team.

"All of a sudden," Blomkamp recalls, "I went from being this lowly commercials director to doing a really high-profile film."

Then things went wrong. Five months after the producers started work on the script, doing digital previsualizations, manufacturing and designing sets, Fox and Universal pulled the plug.

"The studios were saying they had real concerns about a movie of this size in the hands of a first-time director--after they'd suggested it," says Ken Kamins, Jackson and Walsh's longtime rep. "Peter was really aggravated; he felt it was very unfair. So he and Fran said, 'Why don't we do something independent?' "

That was the beginning of "District 9," the South Africa-based sci-fi movie that is among the most acclaimed releases of the year, and a reminder of just how effective Jackson, Walsh and Cunningham are as producers. For this and their upcoming adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel "The Lovely Bones," The Hollywood Reporter has named them Producers of the Year.

Curiously, Jackson doesn't think of himself as a producer. Then again, he doesn't entirely think of himself as a director, either.

"If I have to fill out a passport form or something, in the space to list your occupation I always put 'filmmaker,' " he says by phone from New Zealand as he puts the final touches on "Bones." "I've always thought of myself making films, whether that's directing, producing or writing. It's all part of the same process."

Unlike many producers, the trio -- through Jackson and Walsh's Wellington, New Zealand-based Wingnut Films -- don't seek out projects from others. "We always develop our own," Jackson explains. "We don't regard our company or our activities as having any broader context than just making the films we want to make."

Nor do they have any particular vision for their company: no five-year plan, no detailed strategy for the future. They just take things on as they stumble upon them, as was the case when Walsh read "Lovely Bones."

Source - Producers of the Year: The Jackson Hive

[ladybird78]

Super excited for this one! Woohoo!

[SmaRkieS]

I love the low budget District 9 pero super bitin kaayo.

So this is another Peter Jackson's Movie, mag atang dyud mi ani.

[sharkey360]

This film just might get nominated for certain awards. It's more of an artistic and sentimental project of Jackson's, as opposed to his blockbusters.

[sharkey360]

Death as a dream world in 'Lovely Bones'

After young Susie Salmon is murdered by the local pedophile in "The Lovely Bones," she ends up in a place easily mistaken for heaven, but what she discovers is that this magical terrain is actually an in-between state, "a place she's caught in until she can resolve the issues of her death," says co-writer Phillipa Boyens. "This in-between world is a 14-year-old's idea of what an ideal world can be."

Boyens, along with Fran Walsh and director Peter Jackson, is part of the Oscar-winning troika that wrote Jackson's epic "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and now the three return, with Jackson directing, to bring to the big screen Alice Sebold's best-selling novel about Salmon, played by Saoirse Ronan ( "Atonement"), who watches her family grapple with her death from her perch in the hereafter. The film, which opens Dec. 11, also stars Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon.

In Sebold's novel, this vision of the afterlife is presented comically -- Susie's dream world consists of a 1960s suburban high school, much like the one she would have attended, and she lives in a duplex with her roommate. Jackson's vision is a dreamlike landscape filled with startling, otherworldly imagery, such as a giant ship in a bottle, much like the ones Susie built on Earth with her father, or a gazebo -- where she was supposed to meet her crush, Ray -- now in a foreboding lake of water, with the moon turned into a clock.

Source - Death as a dream world in 'Lovely Bones' -- chicagotribune.com