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Fresh from his "Lord of the Rings" successes, New Zealand film director Peter Jackson has taken his adaptation talent to "The Lovely Bones," a far cry from fantasy adventure sagas. "The only thing as a filmmaker that I am scared of or fear is repetition," Jackson told reporters in Los Angeles earlier this month about his adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel about a 14-year-old girl who watches her family and friends from the afterlife after being brutally raped and murdered. "I have no interest in doing the same thing over and over again, and that's not to say that I wouldn't do another fantasy ... Read Full Story

Director Peter Jackson and actor Mark Wahlberg attend the after-party for a special screening of "The Lovely Bones" at Oak Room on December 2, 2009 in New York City. (December 1, 20092009-12-01 16:00:00 - Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)  Only ET is first to take you behind the scenes of 'The Lovely Bones,' the new thriller from Oscar-winning 'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson ! "It plays as a darkly comic, very fast-paced crime thriller," says Jackson, "and it's the thriller aspect and the humor that appealed to me." Based on the best-selling 2002 novel by Alice Sebold , Mark Wahlberg and Rachel ... Read Full Story

LONDON (Reuters) - New Zealand's Peter Jackson takes a break from blockbusters with "The Lovely Bones," an adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel about girl who is brutally raped and murdered and who looks down on her family from heaven. The film, starring Rachel Weisz and Mark Wahlberg as the girl's grieving parents, had a royal world premiere in London late on Tuesday attended by the Prince of Wales. It has a limited release in U.S. theatres on December 11 and opens widely through January. The Lovely Bones is Jackson's first movie as director since the big-budget spectacular "King Kong" in 2005, which came ... Read Full Story

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) makes for The Lovely Bones. A fine line between heaven and hate By John Esther High minded by Brian Eno's musical treatments, the newest film by Peter Jackson bounces up and down between intelligence and idiocy with the latter outweighing the former in irritating measure. Making great strides in acting since her wildly overpraised performance in director Joe Wright's Atonement, the highly-photogenic Saoirse Ronan plays 14-year-old Susie Salmon.  Born in the late 1950s, raised during the 1960s, and hitting puberty in the early 1970s, Susie is a good girl living in a good home, helping her dad, Jack (Mark ... Read Full Story

The Lovely Bones produced by WingNut Films movie studio directed by Peter Jackson. Release date December 11, 2009 Movie popularity overall ranking is 217 nd with a 9.8 rating .A young girl who was brutally raped and murdered, watches the effects of her death on her family from Heaven, as her parents drift apart, her father becomes obsessed with vengeance and her sister grows into the woman she would never be. No long description of the The Lovely Bones plot yet. But we heard the movie was about the lovely bones actress lynn, the lovely bones movie, the lovely bones summary, the lovely bones ... Read Full Story