It’s not that I think “The Lovely Bones” is a terrible movie — no movie that gives so much screen time to the enchanting Saorise Ronan could be — but that it’s an utterly misguided one. And I’m ...

"The Lovely Bones" 2 1/2 stars Rated: PG-13 mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language Running time: 135 minutes Odd as it sounds, Peter Jackson needed ...

" managed an impressive feat: It held the divine and the earthly in delicate balance. But in his badly misjudged, terminally uninvolving , director Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") conjures up ...

In making “The Lovely Bones,” director Peter Jackson ventures perilously into the land of risk – a land traversed when moviemakers try to make a wildly popular book into a movie. Many have done it ...

Alice Sebold’s debut novel, The Lovely Bones, was a feel-good book about a terrible crime. It operated via a kind of emotional S&M. The story of a 14-year-old-girl narrating her own rape and murder ...

If anything seemed like a sure thing, it was the film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s mega-best-sellerit remained on The New York Times hardback best-seller list for more than a ...

What to keep and what to cut when adapting a book to a film? Host Mikayla Daniels has the answers. Adapting a book to a film is always a difficult process that almost never leaves fans of the book ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Directed by Peter ‘Lord of the Rings’ Jackson, the movie stars ...

On paper, it probably seemed to Peter Jackson that he had a take on Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones that was inherently more cinematic—more “movie-ish”—than the story Sebold told ... Yes, of course: A ...