New Zealand-based visual effects company Weta Digital has launched Weta Animation, a new division which will create its own original content.
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The latest Mortal Engines trailer unleashes giant cities on wheels in the YA adaptation from Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Peter Jackson.
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In our first Mortal Engines set visit report, we explore the world of this Peter Jackson-produced epic, which diverges from the source novel in some key ways.
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The Mortal Engines trailer gives us our first glimpse of the Peter Jackson-produced dystopian YA adaptation, where gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth
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Peter Jackson claims that Harvey Weinstein allegedly blocked actresses Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino from joining the Lord of the Rings cast.
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Director Peter Jackson took to Facebook to share some Mortal Engines concept art for the new film adaptation. In it, a city moves across a barren wasteland.
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Lord of the Rings veteran Hugo Weaving has been cast in Mortal Engines, producer Peter Jackson's upcoming adaptation.
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A Mortal Engines movie is in the works from producer Peter Jackson (The Hobbit). The YA adventure is set in a post-apocalyptic steampunk London.
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This November, you'll see 25 new minutes of Middle-Earth adventures in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug extended edition blu-ray.
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What does one do after spending years in Middle-Earth? If you're Peter Jackson, you remake King Kong, adapt The Lovely Bones, and then go back to Middle-Earth. (Even if the return trip was unplanned.) The Fellowship of the Ring began early pre-productiin in 1997 and really kicked into gear in 1999, which means that by…
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One of the few complains fans didn't have with Peter Jackson's first Hobbit film, An Unexpected Journey, was "it's too short." Clocking in at about 2 hours and 50 minutes, it felt like the story of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) joining a group of dwarves on a journey to the Lonely Mountain barely even began…
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When The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is good, it's really good. Throughout Peter Jackson's first film in the Hobbit trilogy, his camera sweeps through an epic battle, and Howard Shore's score crescendos through the speakers as thirteen dwarves, one wizard and a hobbit fight for their lives. That's what most audiences are paying to see, and the film provides that on…
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The Lord of the Rings saved the West Memphis Three. It sounds like a crazy statement but one of the many things a viewer takes from Amy Berg's breathtakingly detailed and effective documentary West of Memphis is that co-producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh spent a lot of time, and even more money, to assist…
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When we started to hear about West of Memphis, the new documentary about the West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley) produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, and directed by Amy Berg, the big question was: what will this movie offer? The movie was born out of an investigation funded by…
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Yesterday we showed you the poster for West of Memphis, the West Memphis Three documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh and directed by Amy Berg. At the time I wondered what new ground this doc would find when the story has been so thoroughly covered by Joel Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost…
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When the West Memphis Three (Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols) were freed last year, we learned that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh had been paying for investigations into the case for which the three were convicted. The murders for which the WM3 went to prison are widely believed to have been committed…
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The West Memphis Three -- Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols -- may be free, but their story isn't over. Driven to enter guilty pleas and accept 'time served' sentences in order to return to the free world, the men are saddled with felony records for crimes that very few believe were ever…
Read MoreSo, you thought that after SAG and AFTRA called off the labor union boycott of The Hobbit that things would be all smooth sailing for the production? Nope. Despite an end to the union dispute that started with a pairing of a small New Zealand actors' organization and an Australian outfit and grew to encompass…
Read MoreThis is a surprising turn of events for The Hobbit. When a small coalition of actors' unions in New Zealand and Australia pushed actors' guilds across the world to boycott work on the films, citing an unfair residuals arrangement, Peter Jackson responded by threatening to move the production to Eastern Europe. But that would never…
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Someone probably saw this coming, after his frustrated-sounding comments the other day (with respect to MGM's troubles slowing down the films) but it is still a shock to see that Guillermo del Toro is no longer directing The Hobbit for producer Peter Jackson. del Toro announced his departure via long-running LotR fansite The One Ring,…
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Update: Entertainment Weekly have spoken to Ken Kamins, Jackson's manager and received some kind of weak denial. He said: "It sounds like an April Fool's joke. Peter and Fran are working diligently on The Hobbit for the foreseeable future." Which is basically equivalent to answering the question "Will you join me for dinner tonight?" by…
Read MorePeter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro have announced that writing has begun on The Hobbit and the announced Hobbit sequel. Jackson partner Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens have also been revealed as part of the writing team. Both Walsh and Boyens were part of the creative team behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Originally…
Read MorePan's Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro has OFFICIALLY signed on to direct The Hobbit and it's sequel. The Hobbit sequel, which is currently untitled will deal with the 60-year period between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh will executive produce the project…
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