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88-424: Among the company's many releases are Peter Jackson 's 1992 film Dead Alive , which they chose to release theatrically due to Jackson's possessing a following. They are well known for releasing films considered to be controversial for the time period, as in the case with the 1999 film Better Than Chocolate , as some newspapers refused to carry advertisements for the film that featured the word "lesbian" as part of

176-558: A Golden Globe , two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Saturn Awards among others. His production company is WingNut Films , and his most regular collaborators are co-writers and producers Walsh and Philippa Boyens . Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. He was later knighted (as a Knight Companion of the order) by Sir Anand Satyanand , the Governor-General of New Zealand , at

264-472: A duffel coat with "an obsession verging on religious". He had no formal training in film-making, but learned about editing, special effects and make-up largely through his own trial and error. As a young adult, Jackson discovered the work of author J. R. R. Tolkien after watching The Lord of the Rings (1978), an animated film by Ralph Bakshi that was a part-adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy trilogy. When he

352-607: A video game adaptation of the film, which released 21 November 2005 and was also a critical and commercial success. In 2007, Jackson directed a short film entitled Crossing the Line , to test a new model of digital cinema camera, the Red One . The film takes place during World War I , and was shot in two days. "Crossing the Line" was shown at NAB 2007 (the USA National Association of Broadcasters ). Clips of

440-777: A 10-minute multimedia display called Over the Front for the Australian War Memorial in 2008. He contributed to the defense fund for the West Memphis Three . In 2011, Jackson and Walsh purchased 1 Kent Terrace, the home of BATS Theatre in Wellington, effectively securing the theatre's future. In 2012 Jackson supported the American Red Cross "Zombie Blood Drive" together with other famous artists such as The Black Keys band members and

528-526: A biennial air show. He owns a scale modeling company Wingnut Wings that specializes in World War I subjects. Wingnut Wings however closed in March 2020 with the ultimate fate of the company and its moulds not yet known. Jackson is known for his attention to detail, a habit of shooting scenes from many angles, a macabre sense of humour, and a general playfulness – the latter to a point that The Lord of

616-579: A ceremony in Wellington in April 2010. In December 2014, Jackson was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 in Wellington and was raised in its far northern suburb of Pukerua Bay . His parents – Joan ( née Ruck), a factory worker and housewife, and William "Bill" Jackson, a wages clerk – were immigrants from England . As a child, Jackson

704-544: A child Jackson made a World War II epic called The Dwarf Patrol seen on the Bad Taste bonus disc, which featured his first special effect of poking pinholes in the film for gun shots, and a James Bond spoof named Coldfinger . Most notable though was a 20-minute short called The Valley , which won him a special prize because of the shots he used. Jackson attended Kāpiti College , where he expressed no interest in sports. His classmates also remember him wearing

792-475: A church in the Wellington suburb of Seatoun for $ 1.06 million, saving it from demolition. He also contributes his expertise to 48HOURS , a New Zealand film-making competition, through annually selecting 3 "Wildcards" for the National Final. Jackson, a World War I aviation enthusiast, is chair of the 14–18 Aviation Heritage Trust. He donated his services and provided replica aircraft to create

880-491: A critic blurb. Vidmark Entertainment was formed in August 1984 and began operating as a domestic home video distributor in early 1985. In April 1986, Vidmark Entertainment signed a deal with ABC Video Enterprises , to distribute six titles on videocassette. In 1987, Vidmark began distributing and sub-licensing motion pictures for international distribution. That year, the company entered theatrical distribution and production with

968-465: A deal with the Embracer Group to produce a new series of Lord of the Rings live-action films. On 10 May, RNZ reported that Wellington would serve as the production hub for the new Lord of the Rings films. Jackson was set to make games with Microsoft Game Studios , a partnership announced on 27 September 2006, at X06 . Specifically, Jackson and Microsoft were teaming together to form

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1056-465: A doctor. The doctor suspects that Pauline is homosexual and uses it to explain her dramatic weight loss and increasing anger at her mother. Juliet's parents announce their intention to divorce and leave Christchurch, with Juliet to stay with a relative in South Africa. Increasingly distraught at the thought of separation, the two girls plan to run away together. When that plan becomes impossible,

1144-529: A film adaptation of the novel Mortal Engines . In October 2016, Jackson stated that the film would be his next project, as producer and co-writer, once again alongside Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens . The film was directed by his long-time collaborator Christian Rivers . It stars Robert Sheehan , Hera Hilmar , Hugo Weaving , Jihae , Leila George, Ronan Raftery , and Stephen Lang . It premiered on 27 November 2018 in London, received negative reviews and

1232-660: A film that looks more like a demo reel than a movie". In February 1997, Jackson launched legal proceedings against the New Zealand Listener magazine for defamation , over a review of The Frighteners which claimed that the film was "built from the rubble of other people's movies". In the end, the case was not pursued further. Around this time Jackson's remake of King Kong was shelved by Universal Studios , partly because of Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla , both giant monster movies, that had already gone into production. Universal feared it would be thrown aside by

1320-418: A lot of people. It's very black, very satirical, very savage." Released in 1994 after Jackson won a race to bring the story to the screen, Heavenly Creatures marked a major change for Jackson in terms of both style and tone. The real-life 1950s Parker–Hulme murder case , in which two teenage girls murdered one of their mothers, inspired the film. It was Fran Walsh that persuaded him that these events had

1408-595: A major hit on HBO , Return of the Living Dead III and Pinocchio's Revenge . Trimark also made the dramatic Eve's Bayou , starring Samuel L. Jackson , which received critical acclaim. Trimark also released the miniseries Storm of the Century on home video. On June 29, 1990, Vidmark Entertainment began trading on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol VDMK. On December 31, 1991, Vidmark acquired International Broadcast Systems, Ltd. for $ 1.6 million and renamed

1496-437: A movie – a rhapsody in purple – has been photographed in sun-drenched candy color that lends it the surreal clarity of a dream... There's something bracing about the way that Heavenly Creatures serves up its heroines' fantasies with literal-minded brute force." Gleiberman complains that Jackson never quite explains "why the two girls have metamorphosed into the '50s teenybop answer to Leopold and Loeb ," yet concludes, "Still, if

1584-512: A new Lord of the Rings film with the working title The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum . The film is intended to be released in 2026, with Andy Serkis directing from a screenplay written by Walsh, Boyens, Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou. The Hunt for Gollum is the first slate in a new Lord of the Rings film series developed through Warner Bros. label New Line Cinema . In February 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery had signed

1672-408: A new school and befriends Pauline Parker, a 14-year-old girl from a working-class family. Bonding over a shared history of severe childhood disease and isolating hospitalizations, they develop an intense friendship. Pauline admires Juliet's outspoken arrogance and beauty. Unlike the peaceful intellectual life Juliet shares with her family, Pauline's relationship with her mother, Honora, is hostile, and

1760-739: A new studio called Wingnut Interactive. In collaboration with Bungie , he was to co-write, co-design and co-produce a new game taking place in the Halo universe – tentatively called Halo: Chronicles . On 27 July 2009, in an interview about his new movie (as producer) District 9 , he announced that Halo: Chronicles had been cancelled, while Microsoft confirmed that the game is "on hold". In July 2009 Jackson's game studio Wingnut Interactive were said to be at work on original intellectual property. As of August 2023, there are no games released nor developed by Wingnut Interactive. In 2006, Jackson gave NZ $ 500,000 to embryonic stem cell research . He purchased

1848-435: A number of Hollywood films. Jackson is one of the lead actors in two of his films: in Bad Taste , he plays two characters named Derek and Robert, even engaging them both in a fight. In the mockumentary Forgotten Silver , he plays himself. However, he appears in most films he directs, mostly in cameos, just as director Alfred Hitchcock had done: He has also made cameos in several films not directed by him. In

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1936-457: A pink charm the girls have deliberately dropped, Juliet and Pauline bludgeon her to death with a broken piece of brick put in an old stocking. A textual epilogue reveals that Pauline and Juliet were arrested shortly after the murder, sentenced to five years in prison, as they were too young to face the death penalty, and released separately in 1959 on the condition that they never see each other again. Fran Walsh suggested to Peter Jackson (who

2024-487: A sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street , have never been made into movies; the proposed zombie film Braindead underwent extensive rewrites. Jackson's next film to see release was Meet the Feebles (1989), co-written with Sinclair, Walsh and Mulheron. Begun on a very low budget, Meet the Feebles went weeks over schedule. Jackson stated of his second feature-length film, "It's got a quality of humour that alienates

2112-406: A single scene. This is evident in his work where even scenes featuring simple conversations often feature a wide array of multiple camera angles and shot-sizes as well as zooming closeups on characters' faces. One of his most common visual trademarks is shooting close-ups of actors with wide-angle lenses. He was an early user of computer enhancement technology and provided digital special effects to

2200-436: A two-film production, Jackson was later pressured to render the story as a single film, and finally overcame a tight deadline by making a last-minute deal with New Line , which was keen on a trilogy. Principal photography stretched from 11 October 1999 to 22 December 2000 with extensive location filming across New Zealand. With the benefit of extended post-production and extra periods of shooting before each film's release,

2288-444: A writer and executive producer and Guillermo del Toro directing. In early 2010, del Toro dropped out due to production delays and a month later Jackson was back in negotiations to direct The Hobbit ; and on 15 October he was finalised as the director – with New Zealand confirmed as the location a couple of weeks later. The film started production on 20 March 2011. On 30 July 2012, Jackson announced on his Facebook page that

2376-481: Is based on a true story, and as such I felt it important to shoot the movie on locations where the actual events took place." The visual effects in the film were handled by the then newly created Weta Digital . The girls' fantasy life, and the ‘Borovnian’ extras (the characters the girls made up) were supervised by Richard Taylor while the digital effects were supervised by George Port. Taylor and his team constructed more than 70 full-sized latex costumes to represent

2464-416: Is often associated. Weta, initiated by Jackson and key collaborators, grew rapidly during this period to incorporate both digital and physical effects, make-up and costumes, the first two areas normally commanded by Jackson collaborator Richard Taylor. The Frighteners was regarded as a box office failure. Film critic Roger Ebert expressed disappointment stating that "incredible effort has resulted in

2552-569: Is well known that Jackson has a passion for King Kong , often citing it as his favourite film and as the film that inspired him early in his life. Jackson recalls attempting to remake King Kong when he was nine. At the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con , while being interviewed alongside Avatar and Titanic director James Cameron , Jackson said certain films gave him a "kick". He mentioned Martin Scorsese 's crime films Goodfellas and Casino , remarking on "something about those particular movies and

2640-509: The Metro article Jackson criticised the Commission over funding decisions concerning a film he was hoping to executive produce, but refused to drop a client-confidentiality provision that would have allowed them to publicly reply to his criticisms. Jackson won the rights to film Tolkien's epic in 1997 after meeting with producer Saul Zaentz . Originally working with Miramax Films towards

2728-623: The Cannes Film Festival would make the film more appealing than it already was. The film made top ten of the year lists in Time , The Guardian , The Sydney Morning Herald , and The New Zealand Herald . It appears in Schneider's book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die . The film also did exceptionally well at the 1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards , being nominated for 10 awards and winning nine. In 1996

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2816-490: The Lord of the Rings series, and knew Peter Jackson's company Weta Digital would make his vision a reality. It received positive reviews and grossed $ 374 million at the box office. In December 2011, Spielberg said that a sequel was planned, but this time he would be in a producing role, with Jackson as director. Kathleen Kennedy said the script might be done by February or March 2012 and motion-captured in summer 2012, so that

2904-453: The Tintin sequel would be made "at some point soon", although he intended to focus on directing two New Zealand films before that. The following year, Anthony Horowitz , who was hired as the sequel's screenwriter even before the release of the first film, stated that he was no longer working on the sequel, and was unsure if it was still being made. In June 2016, Spielberg confirmed that

2992-723: The Venice Film Festival in September 1994, where it was awarded the Silver Lion . It went on to receive widespread critical acclaim, becoming one of the best-received films of that year. Reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular attention given to the work of the previously unknown Lynskey and Winslet, as well as Jackson's directing. The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1995. In 1952 Christchurch , Juliet Hulme , an affluent 13-year-old English girl, transfers to

3080-639: The black comedy Meet the Feebles (1989) before filming the zombie comedy Braindead (1992). He shared a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with his partner Fran Walsh for Heavenly Creatures , which brought him to mainstream prominence in the film industry. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), including Best Picture , Best Director , and Best Adapted Screenplay . His other awards include three BAFTAs ,

3168-476: The Borovnian crowds—plasticine figures that inhabit Pauline and Juliet's magical fantasy world. Heavenly Creatures contains more than thirty shots that were digitally manipulated, ranging from the morphing garden of the ‘Fourth World’ to castles in fields and the sequences with " Orson Welles " (played by Jean Guérin). Heavenly Creatures garnered wide critical praise. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives

3256-584: The Rings conceptual designer Alan Lee jokingly remarked, "the film is kind of incidental, really". Jackson was a noted perfectionist on the Lord of the Rings shoot, where he demanded numerous takes of scenes, requesting additional takes by repeatedly saying, "one more for luck". Jackson is also renowned within the New Zealand film industry for his insistence on "coverage" – shooting a scene from as many angles as possible, giving him more options during editing. Jackson has been known to spend days shooting

3344-703: The Special Presentation at the BFI London Film Festival and followed by a question-and-answer session hosted by English film critic Mark Kermode . The film was created using original footage from Imperial War Museums ' extensive archive, much of it previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM interviews with servicemen who fought in the conflict. The majority of the footage (save for the start and end sections) has been colourised , converted to 3D and transformed with modern production techniques to present detail never seen before. Before

3432-760: The above films except The Frighteners . And partner Fran Walsh makes a short cameo in The Frighteners as a woman walking next to Cyrus and Stuar just prior the scene featuring their son Billy. Heavenly Creatures Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand biographical film directed by Peter Jackson , from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh . It stars Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their feature film debuts, with Sarah Peirse , Diana Kent, Clive Merrison and Simon O'Connor in supporting roles. The film blends elements of various genres, such as period drama , crime , psychological thriller , romance , and fantasy . Based on

3520-427: The acquisition of four films and completion of its first in-house productions, namely American Gothic , That's Adequate , Silent Memory and Born of Fire . Vidmark Entertainment entered motion picture production in 1988 with the feature Demonwarp . Trimark picked up its first film, Warlock , a 1989 film starring Julian Sands which was a major theatrical hit with fans of such films. Trimark eventually made

3608-426: The biggest per-screen gross of the weekend with an average of $ 15,796, grossing $ 41,323 in its opening 5 days. Heavenly Creatures was an Academy Award nominee in 1994 for Best Original Screenplay and won for Best British Actress at the 1st Empire Awards . It featured in a number of international film festivals, and received very favourable reviews worldwide. Miramax International believed that reception at

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3696-403: The cast of the show The Walking Dead . His property portfolio in 2018 was estimated at NZ$ 150 million. In 2009, he purchased a Gulfstream G550 jet registered ZK-KFB; his total net worth is estimated by National Business Review at NZ$ 450 million. In early 2014 he replaced his Gulfstream G550, with a Gulfstream G650 also registered ZK-KFB. In April 2014, the aircraft

3784-464: The commission to become Jackson's producer). Bad Taste debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May ;1987. Around this time, Jackson began working on writing a number of film scripts, in varied collaborative groupings with playwright Stephen Sinclair, writer Fran Walsh and writer/actor Danny Mulheron . Walsh would later become his life partner. Some of the scripts from this period, including

3872-547: The company as Trimark Television. In June 1992, Vidmark, Inc. changed its name to Trimark Holdings, Inc. to reflect Trimark's diversification of its distribution streams. In March 1993, the company formed Trimark Interactive to expand into the emerging market for interactive software and multimedia. Trimark Interactive's assets were sold to Graphix Zone in March 1997. In June 2000, Trimark was acquired by Lions Gate Entertainment for approximately $ 50 million in stock and cash including taking on $ 36 million in debt., with Amin becoming

3960-496: The diary entries it became apparent that Pauline and Juliet were intelligent, imaginative, outcast young women who possessed a wicked and somewhat irreverent sense of humour. In the film all of Pauline's voice-overs are excerpts from her journal entries. The role of Pauline was cast after Walsh scouted schools all over New Zealand to find a Pauline 'look-alike'. She had trouble finding an actress who resembled Pauline and had acting talent before discovering Melanie Lynskey. Kate Winslet

4048-409: The director submitted a lengthy criticism of the commission for a magazine supplement meant to celebrate the body's 20th anniversary, criticising what he called inconsistent decision-making by inexperienced board members. The magazine felt that the material was too long and potentially defamatory to publish in that form; a shortened version of the material went on to appear in Metro magazine. In

4136-499: The film a 95% score based on 108 reviews, with an average rating of 8.20/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Dark, stylish, and captivating, Heavenly Creatures signals both the auspicious debut of Kate Winslet and the arrival of Peter Jackson as more than just a cult director." On Metacritic , the film has a score of 86 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Nick Hyman, writing for Metacritic , thought that 1994's Oscar-winning Forrest Gump

4224-628: The film can be found at Reduser.net. Jackson completed an adaptation of Alice Sebold 's bestseller, The Lovely Bones , which was released in the United States on 11 December 2009. Jackson has said the film was a welcome relief from his larger-scale epics. The storyline's combination of fantasy aspects and themes of murder share some similarities with Heavenly Creatures . The film ended up receiving generally mixed reviews and middling box office returns yet earned Stanley Tucci an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Jackson

4312-517: The film. New Line Cinema's head Robert Shaye commented that Jackson "... will never make any movie with New Line Cinema again while I'm still working at the company ...". This prompted an online call for a boycott of New Line Cinema, and by August 2007 Shaye was trying to repair his working relationship. On 18 December 2007, it was announced that Jackson and New Line Cinema had reached agreement to make two prequels, both based on The Hobbit , and to be released in 2012 and 2013 with Jackson as

4400-457: The film. It was our intention to make a film about a friendship that went terribly wrong," said Peter Jackson. Walsh had been interested in the case since her early childhood. "I first came across it in the late Sixties when I was ten years old. The Sunday Times devoted two whole pages to the story with an accompanying illustration of the two girls. I was struck by the description of the dark and mysterious friendship that existed between them—by

4488-441: The first time, perceiving it as a land where all is beautiful and she is safe. She asks Pauline to come with her, and this world also becomes visible to Pauline. This shared spiritual vision confirms their Fourth World belief and begins to affect their perception of events in the everyday world. When Juliet is diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a clinic, she and Pauline begin writing to each other, not only as themselves but in

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4576-480: The horror comedy The Frighteners (1996), the epic monster remake film King Kong (2005), the World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) and the documentary The Beatles: Get Back (2021). He is the fifth-highest-grossing film director of all-time , his films having made over $ 6.5 billion worldwide. Jackson began his career with the " splatstick " horror comedy Bad Taste (1987) and

4664-403: The makings of a movie; Jackson has been quoted saying that the film "only got made" because of her enthusiasm for the subject matter. The film's fame coincided with the New Zealand media tracking down the real-life Juliet Hulme, who wrote books under the name Anne Perry . Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet played Parker and Hulme, respectively. Heavenly Creatures was critically acclaimed and

4752-814: The most evil people on earth. What they had done seemed without rational explanation, and people could only assume that there was something terribly wrong with their minds," states Jackson. To bring a more humane version of events to the screen, the filmmakers undertook a nationwide search for people who had had close involvement with Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme forty years earlier. This included tracing and interviewing seventeen of their former classmates and teachers from Christchurch Girls' High School . In addition, Jackson and Walsh spoke to neighbours, family friends, colleagues, police officers, lawyers and psychologists . Jackson and Walsh also read Pauline's diary, in which she made daily entries documenting her friendship with Juliet Hulme and events throughout their relationship. From

4840-663: The movie would be on track to be released by Christmas 2014 or mid-2015. In February 2012, Spielberg said that a story outline for the sequel had been completed. In December 2012, Jackson said that the Tintin schedule was to shoot performance-capture in 2013, aiming for a release in 2015. On 12 March 2013, Spielberg said, "Don't hold me to it, but we're hoping the film will come out around Christmas-time in 2015. We know which books we're making, we can't share that now but we're combining two books which were always intended to be combined by Herge." In December 2014, Peter Jackson said that

4928-479: The notorious Parker–Hulme murder case , Heavenly Creatures examines the relationship between two teenage girls—Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme —which culminates in the premeditated killing of Parker's mother. The story's events span the period from the girls' first meeting in 1952 to the carrying out of the crime, which took place in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 June 1954. Heavenly Creatures debuted at

5016-482: The opening sequence of Hot Fuzz (2007), he played a demented man dressed as Father Christmas , who stabs Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg ) in the hand. Jackson's eldest son, Billy (born 1995), has made cameo appearances in almost every one of his father's films since his birth, namely The Frighteners , The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, King Kong , The Lovely Bones , and the third film of The Hobbit trilogy. His daughter, Katie (born 1996), appears in all

5104-566: The pleasures of Heavenly Creatures remain defiantly on the surface, on that level the movie is a dazzler." Heavenly Creatures had a limited box office success but performed admirably in various countries, including the United States, where it grossed a total of $ 3,049,135 during its limited run in 57 theatres; it grossed $ 5,438,120 worldwide. In the US it opened on two screens in New York City ( Angelika Film Center and Lincoln Plaza) and had

5192-466: The real world. Juliet introduces Pauline to the idea of "the Fourth World," a Heaven without Christians where music and art are celebrated. Juliet believes she will go there when she dies. During a day trip to Port Levy , Juliet's parents announce their plan to go on a trip together, leaving Juliet by herself. Hysterical at the prospect of being left alone, Juliet experiences the Fourth World for

5280-476: The release of the first movie in the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring . There was a special showing of the film after her funeral. Universal Studios signed Jackson for a second time to remake the 1933 classic King Kong . The film was released on 14 December 2005 to critical acclaim and grossed around US$ 562 million worldwide. He also collaborated with game designer Michel Ancel from Ubisoft to make

5368-467: The roles of the royal couple of Borovnia. During this time, Pauline has a sexual relationship with a lodger, making Juliet jealous. Their fantasy life becomes a useful escape from the real world, and the two engage in increasingly violent, even murderous, fantasies about people who oppress them. After Juliet is released from the clinic, their relationship intensifies. Wary of her attachment to Pauline, Juliet's father speaks to Pauline's parents, who take her to

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5456-520: The screening, Jackson said, "This is not a story of the First World War, it is not a historical story, it may not even be entirely accurate but it's the memories of the men who fought – they're just giving their impressions of what it was like to be a soldier." Reviewing the film for The Guardian , critic Peter Bradshaw said: The film was broadcast on BBC Two on 11 November 2018. In late December 2009, Jackson announced his interest in

5544-557: The selection. Peter Jackson Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand filmmaker. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), 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 (1994),

5632-441: The sequel Warlock: The Armageddon in 1993. Trimark also saw success in other familiar film series the studio produced and distributed. Leprechaun , released in 1993 starring a young Jennifer Aniston and Warwick Davis as the sinister leprechaun grossed over $ 10 million during its theatrical run. One theatrical sequel and four direct to video sequels eventually followed. Other Trimark productions included The Dentist ,

5720-422: The sequel was still in development, but Jackson is working on a secret project in the meantime. Jackson's involvement in the making of a film version of The Hobbit has a long and chequered history. In November 2006, a letter from Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh stated that due to an ongoing legal dispute between Wingnut Films (Jackson's production company) and New Line Cinema , Jackson would not be directing

5808-513: The series met with huge success and sent Jackson's popularity soaring. The Return of the King itself met with huge critical acclaim, winning all eleven Oscars it was nominated for, including Best Picture and Best Director . The film was the first of the fantasy film genre to win the award for Best Picture and was the second sequel to win Best Picture (the first being The Godfather Part II ). Jackson's mother, Joan, died three days before

5896-454: The single largest shareholder of Lions Gate. Trimark was folded into Lions Gate on March 12, 2001. In 2001, Mark Amin founded Sobini Films , and is its CEO. In late 2017, Lionsgate launched a channel for Roku streaming players using the Vidmark name and a modified variant of their late 1980s logo, with Lionsgate-owned movies, including some from the original Vidmark and Trimark, amongst

5984-620: The studio". The documentary used the techniques developed for They Shall Not Grow Old to transform the footage with modern production techniques, and seeks to display a new side of a period in the Beatles' history usually remembered as highly conflictual. Most of the used footage was originally recorded for the 1970 Let It Be documentary . Clare Olssen and Jabez Olssen , respectively producer and editor of They Shall Not Grow Old , returned for this new project, with Ken Kamins, Jeff Jones and Jonathan Clyde as executive producers. The project

6072-513: The two fight constantly. Pauline spends most of her time at the Hulmes', where she feels accepted. Together, Juliet and Pauline paint, write stories, make figurines, and eventually create a fantasy kingdom called Borovnia. It is the setting of the adventure novels they write together, which they hope to have published and made into films in Hollywood . Over time, it begins to be as real to them as

6160-547: The two higher budget movies. This period of transition seems not to have been entirely a happy one; it also marked one of the high points of tension between Jackson and the New Zealand Film Commission since Meet the Feebles had gone over-budget earlier in his career. Jackson has claimed the Commission considered firing him from Feebles , though the NZFC went on to help fund his next three films. In 1997,

6248-540: The two planned Hobbit movies would be expanded into a trilogy. He wrote that the third film would not act as a bridge between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings films, but would continue to expand The Hobbit story by using material found in the Lord of the Rings Appendices . On 16 October 2018, Jackson's documentary about the First World War , They Shall Not Grow Old , was premiered as

6336-449: The two share a bathtub and talk about murdering Pauline's mother, seeing her as the primary obstacle to their being together. The two girls spend the last three weeks together at Juliet's house. At the end of that time, Pauline returns home, and the two finalize plans for the murder. Honora plans a trip for the three of them to Victoria Park . After having tea, the three walk on a path down a steep hillside. When Honora bends over to pick up

6424-413: The uniqueness of the world the two girls had created for themselves." Jackson and Walsh researched the story by reading contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the trial. They decided that the sensational aspects of the case that so titillated newspaper readers in 1954 were far removed from the story that Jackson and Walsh wished to tell. "In the 1950s, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were branded as possibly

6512-505: The way Martin Scorsese just fearlessly rockets his camera around and has shot those films that I can watch those movies and feel inspired." Jackson said the 1970 film Waterloo inspired him in his youth. Other influences include George A. Romero , Sam Raimi and the special effects by Ray Harryhausen . Jackson's first feature was Bad Taste , a haphazard fashion splatter comedy which took years to make. It included many of Jackson's friends acting and working on it for free. Shooting

6600-441: The way for Jackson's first big budget Hollywood film, The Frighteners starring Michael J. Fox , in 1996. Jackson was given permission to make this comedy / horror film entirely in New Zealand despite being set in a North American town. This period was a key one of change for both Jackson and Weta Workshop , the special effects company – born from the one-man contributions of George Port to Heavenly Creatures – with which Jackson

6688-535: The world. Though the programme played in a slot normally reserved for drama, no other warning was given that it was fictionalised and many viewers were outraged at discovering Colin McKenzie had never existed. The number of people who believed the increasingly improbable story provides testimony to Jackson and Botes' skill at playing on New Zealand's national myth of a nation of innovators and forgotten trail-blazers. The success of Heavenly Creatures helped pave

6776-470: Was 16 years old, Jackson left school and began working full-time as a photo-engraver for a Wellington newspaper, The Evening Post . For the seven years he worked there, Jackson lived at home with his parents so he could save as much money as possible to spend on film equipment. After two years of work Jackson bought a 16 mm camera , and began shooting a film that later became Bad Taste . Jackson has long cited several films as influences. It

6864-548: Was a box-office bomb . On 30 January 2019, the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles ' rooftop concert , which was the band's final performance, Jackson announced that his next directorial work would be a documentary about the making of their final album Let It Be . In a process similar to his previous documentary project They Shall Not Grow Old , this created around "55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to [Jackson's team]", which are "the only footage of any note that documents them at work in

6952-520: Was a keen film fan, growing up on Ray Harryhausen films, as well as finding inspiration in the television series Thunderbirds and Monty Python's Flying Circus . After a family friend gave the Jacksons a Super 8 cine-camera with Peter in mind, he began making short films with his friends. Jackson has long cited King Kong as his favourite film, and around the age of nine he attempted to remake it using his own stop-motion models. Also, as

7040-468: Was among 175 girls to audition for the film and was cast after impressing Jackson with the intensity she brought to her part. The girls were both so absorbed by their roles that they kept on acting as Pauline and Juliet after the filming was done, as is described on Jackson's website. The entire film was shot on location in Christchurch in 1993. Jackson has been quoted as saying " Heavenly Creatures

7128-447: Was equally matched by "Memorable Film(s) Not Nominated for Best Picture ", including Heavenly Creatures , of which Hyman said, "Peter Jackson's masterful blend of fantastical visions and a heartbreaking real-life murder tragedy has arguably never been topped." Owen Gleiberman , writing for Entertainment Weekly , gave the film a B+ and said, "Set in the early '50s, in the New Zealand village of Christchurch, this ripe hallucination of

7216-424: Was made with "the full co-operation" of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr , the last two living Beatles, as well as John Lennon and George Harrison 's widows Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison . The film includes the full 42-minute last rooftop concert. In March 2020, Walt Disney Studios announced they had acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Jackson's documentary, now titled The Beatles: Get Back . It

7304-682: Was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards and made top ten of the year lists in Time , The Guardian , The Sydney Morning Herald , and The New Zealand Herald . The following year, in collaboration with Wellington film-maker Costa Botes, Jackson co-directed the mockumentary Forgotten Silver (1995). This ambitious made-for-television piece told the story of New Zealand film pioneer Colin McKenzie , who had supposedly invented colour film and 'talkies', and attempted an epic film of Salome before being forgotten by

7392-480: Was normally done on weekends since Jackson was then working full-time. Bad Taste is about aliens that come to earth with the intention of turning humans into food. Jackson had two acting roles including a famous scene in which he fights himself on top of a cliff. The film was finally completed thanks to a late injection of finance from the New Zealand Film Commission , after Jim Booth , the body's executive director, became convinced of Jackson's talent (Booth later left

7480-439: Was noted for horror-comedy films) that they write a film about the notorious Parker–Hulme murder. Jackson took the idea to his long-time collaborator, producer Jim Booth (who died after filming). The three filmmakers decided that the film should tell the story of the friendship between the two girls rather than focus on the murder and trial. "The friendship was for the most part a rich and rewarding one, and we tried to honour that in

7568-510: Was one of three producers on The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn , directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2011. He is officially credited as producer but before he began working on The Hobbit , helped Spielberg direct the film. Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis were cast due to their collaboration with Peter Jackson on King Kong and The Lord of the Rings . Spielberg chose to work with Peter Jackson due to his work on

7656-512: Was originally set to be released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on 27 August 2021 in the US and Canada with a subsequent global release to follow. In June 2021, it was announced that it would be released on Disney+ as a three-part documentary series on 25, 26 and 27 November 2021. The documentary was released to generally positive reviews. In May 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed that Jackson and his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens would be producing

7744-623: Was used in the search for MH370 . The aircraft has subsequently been sold. Jackson owns an aircraft restoration and manufacturing company, The Vintage Aviator (based in Kilbirnie, Wellington, and at the Hood Aerodrome , Masterton), which is dedicated to World War I and World War II fighter planes among other planes from the 1920s and 1930s. He is chairman of the Omaka Aviation Heritage Trust , which hosts

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