Peter Jackson's King Kong : The Official Game of the Movie
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saoirse Ronan, who stars as the doomed Susie Salmon in Peter Jackson's upcoming adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel The Lovely Bones, told reporters that the film's events are heartbreaking, but that it's ultimately a hopeful story.
Destructoid (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
If you have never watched Braindead ( Dead/Alive in the US) then I highly suggest that you make it a priority. It was one of Peter Jackson's earliest films, a slapstick zombie splatter epic that is incredibly violent and extreme, yet lighthearted and very, very funny. It includes self-aware intestines, zombie sex and a kung fu priest who "kicks arse for The Lord." The above scene shows Lionel -- who...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
"Strange Girls actually has more in common with Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures than, say, Halloween," writes Mike Everleth. "Like Pauline and Juliet in Jackson's film, Virginia and Georgia are working on an epic romance story and live more in...
Game Over Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Shacknews has the story that several big-name players have been signed and may be working on the upcoming Halo game helmed by Peter Jackson. Here's the list, with their respective former jobs: Ryan Payton, Metal Gear Solid 4 Producer...
Joystiq (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360 , Business Microsoft confirmed today that Ryan Payton , the assistant producer on Metal Gear Solid 4 who left Kojima Productions in August , will be working on a Halo game. Microsoft wouldn't confirm to Edge the rumors that Payton is heading the Peter Jackson Halo project , merely that he's on the team working on "upcoming and existing Halo games." Also confirmed for...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Rugby Correspondent Peter Jackson interviewed Jonny Wilkinson recently, this remarkable insight into his life revealed the changes he has made in order to stay at the top.
The Film Fiend (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Demonic possession makes me gassy, too. Looking for that oh-so elusive sensation of uncontrollable giddiness you experienced while watching the films produced during the heyday of Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson? Jon Knautz certainly hopes you are. His impossibly enjoyable albeit shamelessly trendy 80's throwback Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is just the sort of unbridled free-for-all this jaded
Sparkster.net (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Who here has seen the movie King Kong ? Not the old, black & white original; the Peter Jackson remake. Remember the fight between King Kong and the T-Rex? Arguably the ultimate 'battle of the beasts' - well that fight has now been surpassed... This afternoon, a wasp flew into my flat. I somehow managed to avoid being stung and even chased it back out of the open window. Right outside my flat, the mother...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Lincoln City manager Peter Jackson agrees a two-year contract extension.
World Hum (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Forget about concerns over who’ll be directing : Before anyone can get behind the camera, the ‘Tintin’ movie needs someone to foot the bill. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Universal Pictures turned down a Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson pitch for a 3D animated feature about the traveling boy detective. Writes the Times’ Claudia Eller: “Universal’s refusal to finance ‘Tintin’ underscores how...
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Simon Pegg drops in on the motion capture operation of Steven Spielberg's Tintin trilogy operation, meets the Great Director (Peter Jackson is producing), and the idea of Pegg and his Spaced/Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz cohort Nick Frost playing The...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Sign of the times, or maybe studio bigwigs weren’t big fans of INDY IV or KING KONG III, but Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have had a hard time getting financing for their proposed TINTIN motion-capture trilogy, with Universal — previously Spielberg’s safe haven — turning it down, Claudia Eller reported: But after they submitted a [...]
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Sad new for Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, Universal Pictures has decided to pull out of the three picture deal for the CGI adaptation of Tintin. The biggest reason for the break in the deal wasn’t Spielberg trying to break DreamWorks away from Paramount, but the $130 million budget. In a day an age where [...] ShareThis
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Filed under: Action , Comedy , Independent , Casting , Deals , Paramount , Sony , Universal , Family Films , Newsstand , Steven Spielberg , Peter Jackson , Comic/Superhero/Geek , Games and Game Movies , Images It looks like another quiet week in the land of the geek -- particularly since all my friends are off at Fantastic Fest. If you're one of the lucky people attending, eat a Wild at Artichoke...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
We didn't moan when the credit crunch meant that our house got repossessed or that we had to give up food, but we never thought Tintin would be taken from us. Sadly, it looks like it has. Despite being masterminded by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson - the directors of some of the best loved and wildly overlong films about robot children and big monkeys ever made - it's been reported that the proposed...
