Remember when New Line/Warner Bros. announced that Andy Serkis would direct “The Lord Of The Rings” spin-off and prequel, “The Hunt For Gollum,” with Peter Jackson producing, and the film would be a two-part movie?

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Well, Apparently, Ian McKellen, who said the film would be split into two, misspoke.

In a new Empire interview with “Lord Of The Rings” screenwriter Philippa Boyens, who will likely be involved at least as a producer, the producer/writer said ‘Hunt For Gollum’ won’t be two parts, but there is another secret ‘LOTR’ movie in the works.

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It seems like it’s been forever.  Since first being announced in June 2021, “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” has titillated fans with all the possibilities. The film is a semi-rare American anime feature from a major studio, which alone makes it a very intriguing offering from New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Animation.

While it hasn’t been forever, the “War of Rohirrim” has faced delays due partly to the SAG-AFTRA strikes in the summer of 2023. 

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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has announced that the next “Lord of The Rings” movie is aiming for a theatrical release in 2026 and will have the creative involvement of filmmaker Peter Jackson, who co-wrote and directed all six Middle-Earth feature films based on the beloved high-fantasy novels of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien. The new movie is only in the “early stages of script development” and will be titled “The Lord of The Rings: The Hunt For Gollum,” which will feature the return of Andy Serkis in the iconic role. 

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Despite his already epic, nearly eight-hour docuseries, “The Beatles: Get Back,” getting released in 2021 (read our review), filmmaker Peter Jackson’s obsession with the Beatles is not quite over. The filmmaker has restored “Let It Be,” director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1970 film about The Beatles, and Disney+ will release the movie on May 8, 2024, the first time the film has been readily available in 50 years.

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For anyone in the midst of, or having previously endured, the pains associated with the salad days of youth, that time-honored tradition of finding one’s unique voice while attempting to entrench oneself within the local population of similarly-aged peers as new feelings and emotions emerge on a seemingly daily basis is, at best, an uphill battle. At worst, it can serve to cripple a developing soul in ways adults may struggle to comprehend fully; it is for these reasons that any successes along the way need not be ignored but celebrated; friendships with like-minded individuals and membership in groups catered to one’s passions are more than a hallmark of these undeniably short years and could be seen as wholly necessary to a developing personality.

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Yesterday, The Beatles released their first single since 1995’s “Free As A Bird” with “Now And Then” as part of the lead-up to Apple Corps‘ re-release of the legendary compilation albums of the band. And to drum up hype even further, here’s a music video for the new song courtesy of Peter Jackson, who did “The Beatles: Get Back” docuseries in 2021.

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Sure, many film fans might know Peter Jackson best from his time directing numerous ‘Lord of the Rings’ films. But if you’re a fan of his earlier work (such as “Braindead” and “Bad Taste“), you know Jackson got his start in the horror genre and knows a thing or two about creative scares. So, when the filmmaker is outspoken about a new horror film, fans should heed his words. 

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Stanley Tucci has had plenty of memorable roles over the years, including “Big Night,” “Road To Perdition,” “Spotlight,” and “The Hunger Games” franchise, among others. But there’s one role the actor hopes never to play again and almost tried to get out of playing it entirely.

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Deadline reports (via Entertainment Tonight) that Tucci never wants to reprise his role as a serial killer in 2009’s “The Lovely Bones.” “I would not play George Harvey again in “The Lovely Bones,” which was horrible,” Tucci told ET.

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Late last month, news broke that Warner Bros. Pictures had a new multi-year deal in place with Embracer Group‘s Middle-Earth Enterprises for New Line Cinema to make more “The Lord Of The Rings” movies. That’s great news for J.R.R. Tolkien fans, but it begs the question: what will these new movies be, anyway?  Peter Jackson already did both “The Lord Of The Rings” and “The Hobbit” as trilogies.

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Yesterday, it was revealed that Warner Bros. Discovery (and its New Line studio) and Embracer Group have hammered out a deal to make more “Lord of the Rings” films in the future. Obviously, it’s not really known exactly what those films will cover and who is going to work on them, specifically, but they’re happening. And you can’t talk about new “Lord of the Rings” films without talking about Peter Jackson, the director of two separate ‘Rings’ film trilogies. 

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Directed and shaped by filmmaker Peter Jackson—based on footage shot by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the little-seen 1970 “Let It Be” documentary— perhaps no piece of pop culture has reignited Beatlemania like the documentary “Beatles: Get Back,” save for maybe the “The Beatles Anthology” docu-series in 1995. Released last fall to much acclaimed, Jackson’s gargantuan six-hour, three-episode long series put the band in a whole new light for a whole new generation, recontextualizing previously unseen footage of the band writing, practicing, and recording their final album before their infamous breakup.

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Kiwi director Peter Jackson helped revolutionize modern studio blockbusters with his original “Lord of The Rings” trilogy, using practical effects in conjunction with newly developed CGI effects from his companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop. These companies would later help bring James Cameron’s “Avatar” to life. While there were mixed reactions to “The Hobbit” critically, the three films in the trilogy almost made $1 billion each.

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Peter Jackson’s 6-hour Disney+ documentary series “The Beatles: Get Back” was a revelation for fans of The Beatles. Jackson made the doc over four years culling through 130 hours of audio and 57 hours of video left over from Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 band break-up doc “Let It Be.” The result? A dream for any Beatles fans, and five Emmy nominations for Jackson, including Outstanding Documentary and Director.

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When it was announced that Amazon was developing a live-action TV series based on “The Lord of the Rings,” fans were elated. But there were a ton of questions. Is this a continuation or expansion of the already-existing world created by Peter Jackson? Will the series use various other Tolkien Middle-earth writings, such as “The Silmarillion,” for inspiration when crafting new stories? Well, as the series approaches its debut later this year, we’re starting to get answers.

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Peter Jackson is an incredibly accomplished filmmaker who just recently completed work on a new Beatles docuseries that just debuted on Disney+, titled “Get Back.” But for many people, Jackson is best known for his work as the filmmaker behind the acclaimed “Lord of the Rings” film series. But what you might not know is that his Beatles work and ‘Rings’ work has a bit of a crossover. 

Continue reading ‘Lord Of The Rings’: Peter Jackson Shares Story About The Beatles’ Failed Attempt To Make A Film Adaptation Of Tolkien’s Work at The Playlist.

Let’s get this out of the way quickly: no matter how boring, predictable, rote and maybe Dad-rock-y it may sound to some, The Beatles remain one of the greatest bands of all time. The group was a towering collection of musicians who wrote the blueprint for almost all of the modern rock and pop genre, bold experimentalists and one of the first bands to use the studio as an artistic instrument. They were incredible musicians on a performance level, marvelous songwriting craftsmen and technically, creatively and imaginatively sound on every level.

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The story that Disney will tell you in the new trailer for “The Beatles: Get Back” is that in January 1969, a film crew was given unprecedented access to document the Beatles at work. This resulted in over 57 hours of the most intimate footage the band ever shot and that it remained in the vaults unseen for several decades. The reality is, the footage did come out: 1970’s “Let It Be,” from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

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Peter Jackson‘s “Lord of The Rings” trilogy is easily one of the better studio franchises, mainly because it was one of the riskier moves at the time. While J.R.R. Tolkien‘s fantasy adventure books were indeed popular, they hadn’t been proven to be box office gold. So, when New Line Cinema gave Jackson a heap of money and time to make a full trilogy of films, it was pretty shocking to many of us in the 1990s. 

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First off, many great music docs are built off the back of lesser music docs. For example, Martin Scorsese‘s “No Direction Home” borrows a lot of footage from Bob Dylan‘s self-made doc, “Eat The Document,” and Peter Jackson does the same with his new Beatles doc. Though Jackson arguably did everyone a favor. While “Eat The Document” is flawed, it’s fascinating.

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Watching films like “You’re Next” and “The Guest,” it’s clear that Adam Wingard is a talented filmmaker that is more than capable of directing blockbusters. And Legendary clearly thought so too, giving him the reins of “Godzilla vs. Kong.” But apparently, it might have been Peter Jackson who was the first to consider Wingard a potential MonsterVerse filmmaker nearly a decade ago.

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Every Christmas, there’s a discussion around whether a certain film is a Christmas film or not. Is “Die Hard“? What about “Harry Potter“? The movie, or trilogy, if you will, people usually forget about but is essential Christmas viewing is “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy.

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Now that the entire trilogy has been re-released and remastered in 4K, Empire Magazine re-shared its 15th-anniversary oral history with Viggo Mortensen, who had a few things to say about changes made to the books.

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If you’re a fan of Peter Jackson and/or The Beatles, then Christmas has come early. Even though “The Beatles: Get Back” isn’t slated to hit theaters until the second half of 2021, Disney and Jackson have decided to give fans a sneak peek at the upcoming, highly-anticipated documentary.

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As seen in the almost-6-minute video, this isn’t a teaser or a trailer for the film.

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A little more than a year ago, Peter Jackson announced that he was going to begin work on a new documentary focused on The Beatles and the mythical Let It Be recording sessions. At the time, a distributor was not announced, but fans of Jackson and the iconic rock band were elated because it was reported that the filmmaker gained access to dozens of hours of film that was recorded during the making of the album, which would provide the most comprehensive look at the behind-the-scenes machinations of the band yet.

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For film fans, there aren’t many things about Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy that anyone would want to be changed. In fact, fans were so in love with the series that they clamored for copies of the extended cuts of the films, which drastically increased the runtimes of these already-massive projects. But according to Russell Crowe, there could have been one significant change in the franchise — Viggo Mortensen wasn’t the first person offered the role of Aragorn.

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Peter Jackson is a filmmaker that has proven himself quite adept at making fantasy epics. His “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies have proven that the director is not scared of tackling big-screen epics. And when you talk about the films that seem to dominate the box office in 2019, superhero epics, Jackson would logically be one of the guys you’d probably think would be perfectly suited for the job.

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