"If you were entrusting $270 million to someone making three movies, you wouldn't choose me," quipped New Zealand director, writer, and sometimes actor, Peter Jackson, to Melissa J. Perenson on Scifi....
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Peter Jackson, the creator of the record-
breaking Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, is to executive produce two
Hobbit movies after settling a 100-millio...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After months of bitter
legal wrangling, Peter Jackson, New Line Cinema and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc have agreed to make two movies
based on the book "The Hobbit" by ...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The makers of the smash hit
"Lord of the Rings" films said Tuesday they settled a legal
dispute and agreed to make two movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien's
"The Hobbit," but mo...
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The world still has a taste for tales about Middle-earth.Two weeks after the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Children of Hurin," an unfinished novel edited by the late author's son, Christophe...
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One of Pennsylvania's most powerful politicians announced on the state Senate floor Monday that he expects to be indicted soon in an extortion case and that he was temporarily giving up a key commi...
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The state's college-loan agency spent more than $768,000 on trips to lavish resorts as far away as California between 2000 and 2005, records released Monday show.The records, which filled nearly 70...
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A Mennonite farmer who claimed he would suffer "eternal damnation" if he complied with the state's numbering system to sell ducks won't be expected to follow the rule after all.State Agriculture De...
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A suspended judge pleaded not guilty Monday to cheating two insurance companies out of $440,000 and said he plans to retire rather than run for re-election.Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce pro...
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