1. Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side town in New Zealand in 1961.
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1. Peter Jackson was born as an only child in a small coast-side town in New Zealand in 1961.
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3. Peter Jackson was scheduled to start shooting a new version in August of 2004 in New Zealand.
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5. Peter Jackson left school at 17 hoping to get work in the New Zealand film industry.
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7. Peter Jackson left school at age 17 hoping to get a job in the New Zealand movie business.
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12. Peter Jackson made a name for himself in the movie industry with a small collection of gory, low-budget horror films including Dead Alive and The Frighteners.
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13. Peter Jackson is 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.
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14. Peter Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 in Wellington and was raised at the nearby coastal town of Pukerua Bay.
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16. Peter Jackson produced District 9, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (2011) and the documentary West of Memphis (2012).
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17. Peter Jackson was made a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2010.
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18. Peter Jackson received Academy Awards for best director and for best adapted screenplay for The Return of the King, which won a total of 11 Oscars, including best picture.
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19. Peter Jackson married Fran Walsh, a screenwriter who had helped him gain contacts in the New Zealand film industry during the 1980s.
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20. Peter Jackson broke out into decidedly different territory as the screenwriter and director of the 1994 film Heavenly Creatures, a disturbing dramatization of a famous New Zealand matricide case from the 1950s.
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24. Peter Jackson might not have the most directing credits in show business, but he's still one of the richest Hollywood movie directors around.
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26. Peter Jackson is an avid aviation enthusiast and owns a collection of over 40 airworthy World War I-era warbirds housed at Hood Aerodrome near Masterton, and a Gulfstream G650 in Wellington.
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30. Peter Jackson was an early user of computer enhancement technology and provided digital special effects to a number of Hollywood films.
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31. Peter Jackson is 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.
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33. Peter Jackson owns an aircraft restoration and manufacturing company, The Vintage Aviator, which is dedicated to World War I and World War II fighter planes among other planes from the 1920s and 1930s.
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36. In December 2014, Peter Jackson said that the Tintin sequel would be made "at some point soon", although he intended to focus on directing two New Zealand films before that.
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39. Peter Jackson was one of three producers on The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2011.
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40. In 2006, Peter Jackson has won the rights to a film adaptation of the fantasy novel series Temeraire, a novel written by Naomi Novik about dragons being used in combat in the Napoleonic Wars concerning a dragon named Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence.
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43. Peter Jackson 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.
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44. On 30 July 2012, Peter Jackson announced on his Facebook page that the two planned Hobbit movies would be expanded into a trilogy.
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45. Peter Jackson completed an adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller, The Lovely Bones, which was released in the United States on 11 December 2009.
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50. Peter Jackson hired actresses Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in the roles of Parker and Hulme.
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52. Peter Jackson mentioned Martin Scorsese's crime films Goodfellas and Casino, remarking on "something about those particular movies and the way Martin Scorsese just fearlessly rockets his camera around and has shot those films that I can watch those movies and feel inspired.
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54. Peter 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.
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55. Peter Jackson was born on 31 October 1961 in Wellington and was raised at the nearby coastal town of Pukerua Bay.
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56. In December 2014, Peter Jackson was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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57. Peter Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002.
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