Alice Sebold News

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.

Moviemaker Peter Jackson has defended his decision not to show the rape and murder of a teenage girl in his adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller The Lovely Bones , revealing he felt "morally conflicted about the whole thing". The horrific act is spelled out in the book, but Jackson and his co-producer wife Fran Walsh couldn't bring themselves to ...

"The Lovely Bones"A merges first-person and omniscient narration as Susie Salmon chronicles her journey from sensitive 14-year-old schoolgirl to shattered soul stuck in a nether zone between earth and heaven.

Peter Jackson is a spectacular filmmaker. He can capture both intimate, quiet moments and sweeping, fantastical visions with ease.

Just based on subject matter, "The Lovely Bones" always seemed an unlikely candidate for a bestseller.

Peter Jackson's big-screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones lands in theaters this Friday, which presents me with a dilemma.

Nominated for an Academy Award at age 13, and having worked with such filmmakers as Joe Wright, Peter Jackson and Peter Weir, the now 15-year-old Saoirse Ronan has had quite an impressive career, to say the least.

In "Invictus," South African president Nelson Mandela A rallies his nation's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

Things that go bump - and much, much worse - in the night have never fazed Peter Jackson.

Though the title The Lovely Bones is meant to conjure the unthinkable by combining the ideas of innocence and horror inherent in child murder, the movie itself fails in that regard, when it comes to the execution of the concept.

Reviewed by Katey Rich : 2009-12-03 10:54:44 The trick to The Lovely Bones , what made Alice Sebold's novel such a sneaky and elegant heartbreaker, is its matter-of-fact acceptance of its wild premise.

Quinton Aaron and Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side." The Bagger is catching up to her fellow pundits as they weigh in with their updates; thank goodness for Twitter .

Toy Story 2 3D Movies will be leaping out into the laps of their audiences as never before during 2010.

The lord of "The Lord of the Rings," Peter Jackson, won multiple Oscars for the final part of that Tolkien-inspired trilogy, but he has been acknowledged as a visionary since "Heavenly Creatures" put the New Zealander in the global spotlight.

Peter Jackson returns to the engrossing and poetic imagery that earned him his name more than a decade ago.

Pan MacMillan are currently in the process of working on the film edition of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones which has now been turned into a film by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.

The highly anticipated latest movie by New Zealand film director Peter Jackson has had its world premiere in London.

British royalty turned out last night to meet the cast and directors of "The Lovely Bones" during the movie's world premiere last night in London's Leicester Square.

Director Peter Jackson says he wanted his adaptation of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones -- on the rape, murder and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl, Suzie -- to be about love.

Saoirse Ronan plays murdered teen Susie Salmon in Peter Jackson's 'The Lovely Bones,' based on the book by Alice Sebold.