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Peter Jackson

June 2024

  • ‘Stirrings in Tolkien land’ … Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom and Ian McKellen in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002

    Week in geek
    Hunt for Gollum: are Ian McKellen and Viggo Mortensen being quietly dropped?

    News of Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis’s eyebrow-raising return to Middle-earth seems to have passed the two stars by. Are Aragorn and Gandalf to be replaced?

May 2024

  • Gollum in The Hobbit in 2012.

    Week in geek
    The Hunt for Gollum: are Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis making a Lord of the Rings fan film?

  • Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis.

    The Hunt for Gollum: Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis to work on new Lord of the Rings film

  • In a scene from Let It Be, Paul McCartney plays the guitar next to John Lennon, also with a guitar, opposite Ringo Starr on drums and George Harrison, all of them seated

    Let It Be review – reissued Beatles film takes long and winding road to eventual acclaim

  • Bernard Hill in 2014

    Bernard Hill, Boys from the Blackstuff and Lord of the Rings actor, dies aged 79

April 2024

  • The Beatles performing on the Apple Headquarters’ rooftop in London 1969

    Peter Jackson to release restored version of Beatles’ 1970 documentary Let It Be on Disney+

    Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the film captures the recording sessions of the band’s final album

January 2024

  • No Hobbit harmed … Dominic Monaghan as Merry and Billy Boyd as Pippin.

    Week in geek
    Did Peter Jackson nearly kill off one of the hobbits in Lord of the Rings?

    Studio bigwigs were apparently keen to ice one of the halflings in the trilogy but as the director realised, killing off a main character – just because – isn’t always the answer

December 2023

  • Jason Connolly, New Zealand

    ‘I left the cinema, walked home and announced I was moving’: films that made people emigrate

    If The Lord of the Rings had you yearning for New Zealand, or Julia Roberts on a bike made you fall in love with Bali, you’re not alone. But did you grab your passport and start packing? Meet the people who did

November 2023

  • Cut shorty … Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon.

    Directors are turning to streaming to fulfil their epic visions – and avoid ‘bum ache’

    Ridley Scott has reluctantly trimmed Napoleon, while Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is taking flak for its long running time. But streaming services can provide a safe haven
  • John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney in Liverpool in 1964

    More new Beatles music ‘conceivable’ after Now and Then, Peter Jackson says

    Get Back director who helped with AI technology that isolated John Lennon’s vocals in new single says there are more song fragments in archive
  • The Beatles in May 1967.

    ‘A huge event’: excitement as the Beatles’ final song Now and Then approaches release

    AI-enhanced song released at 2pm GMT today, but Beatles experts are divided over how effectively it could capture the band’s spirit

October 2023

  • ‘The song created ideas and images in my head’ … Peter Jackson pictured in 2016.

    ‘Earliest known film of the Beatles’ to feature in Peter Jackson-directed music video

    Director makes his first ever music video for Now and Then, the ‘final’ Beatles song combined from 1995 sessions and a late-70s John Lennon demo

September 2023

  • Shelly Bay from the air, 4 May 2019. New Zealand

    Wellington divided as Peter Jackson land purchase halts housing plan

    Controversial development proposed in New Zealand capital, which faces a housing crisis, scrapped after film-maker purchased block of land

March 2023

  • Brad Pitt stars as Achilles in Troy.

    Week in geek
    Hits and myths: why has Hollywood abandoned ancient Greece?

    Tolkien-inspired mythology has taken over our screens while a treasure chest of epic fantasy tales lies unused

February 2023

  • Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

    New Lord of the Rings films in the works at Warner Bros

    Announcement comes 20 years after Peter Jackson’s trilogy was released and amid a scramble for franchises at Warner Bros Discovery

August 2022

  • Composite of head shots of Cynthia Addai-Robinson in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, and Lenny Henry

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links The Lord of the Rings to Lenny Henry and the Beatles?

  • Stuart Heritage

    Peter Jackson wants to wipe his mind of Lord of the Rings. He should snap out of it

    Stuart Heritage

July 2022

  • Lord Of the Rings: The Rings of Power

    Full-length trailer for Amazon’s £1bn Lord of the Rings prequel is released

    The Rings of Power series to air on Prime from September, and is set thousands of years before films based on JRR Tolkien’s stories

March 2022

  • Amazon’s adaptation of The Lord of the Rings

    Hoard of the rings: ‘lost’ scripts for BBC Tolkien drama discovered

    Original manuscripts show how author rewrote scenes for 1950s adaptation of his Middle-earth epic Lord of the Rings

February 2022

  • The Beatles play atop the Apple Offices in London in 1969.

    The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert review – a towering time capsule

    Nonplussed coppers, 60s London panoramas and the fab four very much alive … Peter Jackson’s film is moving and unmissable
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