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Peter Jackson is making his hobbits and dwarves march double-time in his "The Lord of the Rings" prequel, which he's shooting in a faster film speed than the Hollywood standard.
Peter Jackson believes Damien Echols would be dead now if not for a 1996 documentary that cast doubt on the man's guilt in three child murders.

Media coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan sometimes has been as much about journalists as soldiers. In 2006, ABC's Bob Woodruff was nearly killed when shrapnel from a roadside bomb in Iraq tore through his brain.
Tom Cruise's new mission remains impossible to beat at the box office.
Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse.

Belgian cartoonist Georges "Herge" Remi's favorite ace reporter stars in quite the slick third-person adventure for the iPad guaranteed to captivate the 10-year old in the family.

Steven Spielberg hopes he's the typical American when it comes to Tintin: The filmmaker had never heard of the guy, but once he got acquainted, they became friends for life.

Adele's voice has given her the biggest success this year - and the most trouble. The singer will have throat surgery and has now canceled all tour dates and promotional appearances for the year.
Director Peter Jackson said Friday that he was working with a high-profile former American death row inmate in hopes of getting the man a complete pardon.
Renowned New Zealand movie director Peter Jackson said Friday that he was working with a high-profile former American death row inmate in hopes of getting the man a complete pardon.
Tintin came home to Belgium on Saturday for the world premiere of Steven Spielberg's "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn."
Steven Spielberg figures there's only one or two of his old movies that he might consider converting to 3-D. And the ones he's thinking about have large, hungry creatures at their center.
Steven Spielberg has turned up at Comic-Con with a surprise guest: Peter Jackson, his partner on the upcoming action tale "The Adventures of Tintin."
Peter Jackson says he's nearly a quarter of the way through his long, long shoot for his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
A clever T-shirt has helped fulfill the fantasy of one Comic-Con fan: shaking Steven Spielberg's hand.
Jackson said that without "Paradise Lost," "Damien would be dead by now, so I do believe that film saved his life.
"We went into this case believing that they didn't do it, and the facts and the evidence we came out with at the end completely supported that," Jackson said in an interview. "So is the documentary sort of providing the prosecution's point of view? No, it's not. We're not interested in that. They had their go back in 1994. ... The documentary, it's the case against the state, really."

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