Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZMis a New Zealand filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of The Lord of the Rings trilogyand The Hobbit trilogy, both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama Heavenly Creatures, the mockumentary Forgotten Silver, the horror comedy The Frighteners, the epic monster remake film King Kongand the supernatural drama film The...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth31 October 1961
CityPukerua Bay, New Zealand
I'm a huge fan of the game and look forward to helping it come alive on the cinema screen.
Piracy has the very real potential of tipping movies into becoming an unprofitable industry, especially big-event films,
It had such a profound affect on me as a 9-year-old that it made me want to make films. The next day I got my parents' Super 8 movie camera and started to do stop-motion animation with a clay dinosaur.
I'm so honored and relieved that the academy and the members of the academy that have supported us have seen past the trolls and the wizards and the hobbits in recognizing fantasy this year,
We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.
I was 12-years-old and I'd never seen her wear it, so I figured she didn't want it anymore.
It is a wonderful acknowledgment of what has been a six-year journey to make and release this first film in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
It is a major surgery. Major by any definition of the word.
I think it's gonna be a lot of lawyers sitting in a room trying to thrash out a deal before it will ever happen
It is a great achievement and no surprise to me that we have the most Academy players coming through into the first team,
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If Andy is feeling okay then he will be involved in the squad,
For us to win would rank as one of the great FA Cup upsets of all time.
We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.