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New Extended TV Spot for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones

22 hours ago | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Paramount has debuted a new TV spot for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones. It runs a minute long and is a good compliment to the original trailer, especially because I think it's good that they don't give away too much of the story. We get to see a few more scenes of heaven with finished CGI and a bit more of the story. I'm actually really excited for this, I've got high hopes (despite the mixed early buzz). The one part of this I am still a bit hesitant about is heaven, just because it looks so wildly imaginative that I'm not sure if I'll be able to get into it. I sort of had the same problem with What Dreams May Come. Anyway, give this a shot. Watch the new TV spot for Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones: [flv:http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/lovely-bones-extended-TVspot.flv http://media2.firstshowing.net/firstshowing/lovely-bones-extended-TVspot.jpg 598 254] You can also watch The Lovely Bones TV »

- Alex Billington

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Early Buzz on The Lovely Bones

24 November 2009 10:53 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Earlier today we ran a story featuring a new poster and two new clips from Peter Jackson’s upcoming adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones.  While a couple of the reviews are glowing, the others range from negative to lukewarm with the nature of the adaptation and the emphasis on the visuals as a major point of contention.  Hit the jump to read excerpts from the reviews of Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Total Film, Screen Daily, The Guardian, The Sun, and AintItCool.

For those who aren’t aware of the story, The Lovely Bones centers on Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a young girl in 1973 who is murdered by her neighbor (Stanley Tucci) and watches from heaven of how the loss affects her family, friends, and even her killer.  I found Sebold’s book hard to read at times due to its unblinking observation of incomprehensible loss friends »

- Matt Goldberg

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Buzz Break: When Moore is Less

19 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

· Was one of Demi Moore's hips shaved off for the cover of W? Jeez, airbrushers, let's not give the woman a plastic surgery complex or something. Click for bigger.

· One of Jeff Wells's tipsters caught The Lovely Bones and is calling it What Dreams May Come, Part II. Ouch.

· Everyone is threatening to quit Hollywood. Chris Weitz! Robert Downey Jr! Your neighbor who just got cut from the Groundlings' Sunday company! It's an epidemic.

· Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus have hung a defiant sign on their treehouse: "No Twilight fans allowed!"

· Ricky Jay once assaulted Pierce Brosnan by throwing a playing card at him from 50 feet away (Gambit-style!) and hitting him right above the eye. Sure, there's context, but who needs it? »

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Family Guy Quotes: "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag"

9 November 2009 8:33 AM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »

During the first of two new episodes during Family Guy's live action special last night, Brian was dating an older woman, Rita (voiced by guest star Aimee Garcia).

The episode, "Brian's Got a Brand New Bag," began with Peter's obsession with the movie Round House (the episode was also dedicated to Patrick Swayze) and somehow led to Brian dating a fifty year old woman.

Along the way Brian proposed, cheated, and got dumped all within one hilarious half hour.  Relive some of the better moments with our Family Guy quotes from the episode:

 

Peter: Oh my god, Road House. I want to buy this

Clerk: Great and as a bonus I'll throw in What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams

Peter: No thank you

Clerk: No charge

Peter: I do not want it

Clerk: But it's free, sir

Peter: If that DVD even touches Road House, I will kill »

- eric@iscribelimited.com (The Barnacle)

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The Box review (3/5) - The premise turns out to be amazingly simple.

5 November 2009 9:59 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

What would you do if you were given the opportunity of receiving a million dollars? Unfortunately there is a catch. Someone you don’t know will die. That is the intriguing premise behind “The Box”, a movie that is both thrilling and baffling. Director/screenwriter Richard Kelly has been waiting a long time to spring another mind trip on people like he did with “Donnie Darko”. That was a movie that became a cult classic after going to video. That was way back in 2001. After that, Kelly wrote the screenplay for the universally panned “Domino” and directed the little seen “Southland Tales”. He was due to bring his furtive mind back to the forefront. What better way to do it than bringing short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson to the big screen. Matheson’s previous work includes “A Stir of Echoes”, “I Am Legend”, “What Dreams May Come” and countless “Twilight Zone” episodes. »

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Lovely Bones: Cynical Awards Fodder Or Box Office Gold?

14 October 2009 10:04 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

The Lovely Bones has been a decade-long project: traversing continents; switching directors; growing in budget; Ryan Gosling fired; Mark Wahlberg hired; delayed for almost a year. Alarm bells start to ring. Despite all the rumours and gossip-mongering Peter Jackson’s latest feature has been, rather cynically, held back for “awards season”. In other words, the studio is unsure of how its product is going to play at the box office, so is hoping critical praise might help.

What started off as a Film Four production with Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsey has turned into an effects-laden, multi-million dollar behemoth. The trailer hit the internet in August and instantly recalled fellow Kiwi filmmaker Vincent Ward’s “beautiful disaster” What Dreams May Come. The similarities in tone and imagery are striking (dodgy wigs included).

The inexorable rise of Peter Jackson appears utterly incongruous given his origins in low budget splatter-horror. But is it? »

- Martyn Conterio

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Is Hugh Jackman Real Steel?

1 October 2009 2:04 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

Variety is reporting that Hugh Jackman is in talks to star in Real Steel, a film about a ex-fighter father and his 13-year-old estranged son who reunite to compete in a futuristic robot fighting league. The Dreamworks film is being directed by Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Cheaper By The Dozen), who is taking over directing duties from Peter Berg (Dune, Hancock 2).

Jackman is reportedly in talks to the play the role of the father, who becomes a promoter for the robot fighting league after his career as a human boxer is deemed obsolete.

 

With the news that Hugh Jackman is eyeing a role in Real Steel, we also get a little more about what the film will actually be about. According to Variety, the father character starts out at a disadvantage in the robot league, only having access to sub-standard parts - that is until he discovers »

- Kofi Outlaw

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‘Departures’ - The “Ticket Stubs Review”

1 September 2009 12:08 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »

By Austin Lugar

for MovieSet.com

{Ed Note: ‘Departures‘ is also known by the Japanese title ‘Okuribito’}

Like most film nerds, I watched the Oscars with a lot of anticipation and predictions. So when the Best Foreign Film category came along, I was hoping The Class was going to beat out Waltz With Bashir because, as I mentioned, I’m a nerd. Yet Departures went home with the golden statue, which left all of America saying, “What in the world is Departures?” It only played at the Hawaii Film Festival in 2008, which qualified it for the Oscars and is only now starting to trickle to theatres across the country.

Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) and Shokichi Hirata (Takashi Sasano) in 'Departures.'

So now that I’ve seen it, I can safely say: Yes, it deserves the prize. There are a lot of movies about death, but there aren’t many »

- Austin Lugar

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'The Lovely Bones' trailer makes our Must List. Do tell -- what's on yours?

5 August 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

Remember five years ago when that trilogy about the midgets trying to return jewelry to Pompeii made billions of dollars and swept the Oscars? And how two years later its director tried his hand at resuscitating another famous property and was met with a lot of "meh"s and "it's too long!"s? And how in the intervening four years everyone has asked "is he doing The Hobbit?", "what about Halo?" and various other sweaty, agitated questions? Well fret no more, Peter Jackson fans! The Lord of the Rings director is back this December with his adaptation of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones, the first trailer of which went live yesterday. Check it out:   Yeah? Having never read the book I can hardly speak with any authority on its translation to screen, but those images...I mean, they're scrumptious. Just Edible. This is the most visually exciting treatment of »

- Henning Fog

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See Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones Trailer

5 August 2009 7:37 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Paramount Pictures have unveiled the full trailer for Peter Jackson's theatrical adaptation of The Lovely Bones. The beautiful surreal and otherworldly imagery strewn throughout the trailer is reminiscent of the dazzling visuals in What Dreams May Come. Like that film, The Lovely Bones is hard to classify with touches of drama, mystery, suspense and the supernatural. Which is perhaps why the trailer gives away more of the story than you might expect. Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family . and her killer . from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, »

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Lovely Bones Trailer Online

4 August 2009 11:48 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Following yesterday's Entertainment Tonight trailer for the trailer, the full trailer for The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestselling novel, is now available for your perusal at Apple.There are shades of What Dreams May Come and Paperhouse in the visualisation of Susie Salmon's own personal Heaven, and the emphasis on standard amateur sleuthing might ring alarm bells for those who've read the novel and were expecting Jackson to come up with Heavenly Creatures Part 2. But the film is a potentially tough sell, given that its source begins with the rape, murder and dismemberment of a teenage girl. If the trailer turns out to be slightly disingenuous, you can hardly blame the marketing people. This film will not be Nancy Drew in the Afterlife, we promise.And there's no disguising the awesomeness of the cast: Rachel Weisz, Stanley Tucci, Susan Sarandon, Rose McIver, Atonement's Saoirse Ronan, »

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'The Lovely Bones' Has a Trailer

4 August 2009 9:10 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

From what I’ve seen, The Lovely Bones looks like a cross between What Dreams May Come and Ghost, albeit from the director of Heavenly Creatures and The Lord of the Rings films. Frankly, after a decade-spanning run of genre movies, it’s good (and somewhat jarring) to see Jackson’s latest partially set in a universe of cars, high school and Vogue magazine.

That’s only partially, of course. Based on the Alice Sebold bestseller, The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susie Salmon, a young girl who is raped and murdered in 1973. The movie follows her to Heaven, where she is able to watch her loved ones — including her parents, grandmother and friends — grieve for her. She also watches as the man who took her life, George Harvey, escapes capture.

Even if Jackson’s vision of the afterlife looks too CGI-oriented at times, the first half of the preview hooks us. »

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The Box Trailer – Richard Kelly And Richard Matheson Make Bizarre Pair

26 June 2009 7:10 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

Richard Matheson is one of the strangest writers associated with Hollywood. I don't say that because of the myriad horror efforts, Twilight Zone episodes, or things like What Dreams May Come that have his name attached. I say it because so many things he's written just won't go away. Matheson has credits going back to things like 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, based on his novel The Shrinking Man, and it's exactly the movie you think it might be based on knowing nothing more than the year and title. He wrote a lot of television back in the day, and then in 1964 we got a movie known as The Last Man on Earth based on a little novel he wrote called I Am Legend. In 1971 we get Omega Man, based on I Am Legend. In 2007 we got both I Am Omega and I Am Legend, also based on the same work. »

- Marc Eastman

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Tennant's Hamlet To Be Filmed

29 May 2009 5:08 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

David Tennant, lately Doctor Who around these parts, gave an absolutely storming performance as Hamlet last year in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of that play, so we thought you'd want to know that he's reprising his role - along with fellow thespian Patrick Stewart, who played both Claudius and the Ghost - for a three-hour BBC version of the play.Yes, if you were one of the many, many people who either couldn't get a ticket to see the play in London or Stratford or who missed Tennant when he was forced to retire due to a bad back, there's another chance.The play is one of the world's most famous, and basically sees a guy dither for four acts about whether or not to avenge his father's death. It is, however, one of the greatest pieces of drama ever written and certainly one that's provided the titles to »

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Richard Matheson: An Appreciation By Matthew R. Bradley

22 February 2009 12:02 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 After the hundreds of pages I have written and edited about Richard Matheson, it’s tough to sum up his significance to film and television in a few sentences, but here goes.  Start with the movies that would never have been made if he hadn’t written the novels or stories—and in many cases the scripts—first:  the Hugo Award-winning The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Emmy Award-winning Duel (Steven Spielberg’s feature-length debut), The Legend of Hell House, Trilogy of Terror (with Karen Black’s Zuni-doll smackdown), the Oscar-nominated Somewhere in Time, the Oscar-winning What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, and a little half-billion-dollar hit called I Am Legend (plus its two previous incarnations, The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man).

Now add his adaptations of works by Edgar Allan Poe (House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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2009 | 2002 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998

15 articles from 2009

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