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The Beatles released what has been billed their very last song this week, with the aid of filmmaker Peter Jackson, but now the Lord of the Rings director has hinted there may be one or two more gems in the vault. Now and Then, a song written by John Lennon in 1978, two years before his murder, has…

Anne Perry, whose crime writing was shadowed by her role in a murder that was spotlighted in Peter Jackson's 1994 film, Heavenly Creatures, has died at 84. Perry died in a Los Angeles hospital, her agent Meg Davis confirmed. She had been in steady decline since suffering a heart attack in December…

EXCLUSIVE: The obvious question in David Zaslav’s reveal today that Warner Bros/New Line intend to to head back into Middle-earth with rights owner Embracer and expand the Lord of the Rings franchise is this: What do the Kiwi creatives who architected the Oscar-winning, billion-dollar-grossing franchise…

The Beatles: Get Back director Peter Jackson overcame formidable competition from some Hollywood heavyweights tonight to claim the Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program. His rivals for the honor included Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio for George Carlin’s American Dream, Amy Poehler for…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details & exclusive behind-the-scenes looks from the first episode of Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which debuted on September 1. A new episode of Inside The Ring will drop every week of Season 1 of Rings of Power. Stick around for Episode 2 later…

Peter Jackson's mesmerizing Disney+ documentary The Beatles: Get Back was supposed to be a six-hour immersion into the recording of Let It Be and the last live concert by rock music's most famous band before they split up and headed toward solo careers. “I didn't want to make the movie about the Beatles breaking up,&#8221…

EXCLUSIVE: When we think of recurring characters in Peter Jackson film franchises, names like Frodo, Gandalf, Gollum and Sauron stand out. Add John, Paul, George and Ringo to that list. Following a five-Emmy-nomination haul for his Disney+ three-part docu The Beatles: Get Back, Jackson tells Deadline he is cooking up…

Paul McCartney and his late Beatles songwriting and singing partner John Lennon haven't sung together in over 50 years, but they got the next best thing last night with a duet of I've Got A Feeling at McCartney's Got Back Tour date at Spokane Arena. Check out above clip making the rounds on YouTube. This was made…

“I’d like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves, and I hope we’ve passed the audition,” says John Lennon near the end of The Beatles: Get Back, premiering on Disney+ today. Almost all fans of the Fab Four have seen the quip from Lennon in the 1970 Let It Be movie as the band finishes up their last ever…

It’s not quite as arduous as Hobbits venturing to Mordor to destroy Sauron’s ring, but Peter Jackson’s immersed himself for four years to bring to life the end of the long and winding road of The Beatles. The result is the seven-hour The Beatles: Get Back, which Jackson culled and restored from 60 hours of studio…

The endless fascination with The Beatles continues on Disney+, which is celebrating its second anniversary with a cavalcade of new content, including director Peter Jackson’s three-part examination of the Fab Four’s lasting influence as seen in its creative process. The first clip from The Beatles: Get Back rolls out…

The tech division of Weta Digital has been sold in a $1.625 billion deal. Weta Digital is Peter Jackson’s Wellington-based empire known for its work on The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Game of Thrones and many other major film and TV properties. The acquiring company is Unity, an interactive 3D firm. The acquisition…