Heavenly Creatures, Kate Winslet, ...
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HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994) Jackson and Walsh's screenplay about two murderous New Zealand girls earned an Oscar nomination, gave Kate Winslet her big break, and featured Middle-earth-like fantasy sequences. ''There was a murder case from 1954 that Fran had been really interested in when she was a kid. Fran [wanted] to find out who these girls were -- what journey they went on that ended in them killing one of their mothers. We loved the script process because we had to behave like investigative journalists. Everything in the movie was taken from people's memories.''

THE FRIGHTENERS (1996) Michael J. Fox plays a ghost-wrangling con man in Jackson's first big studio movie. ''It was always made as a Halloween film. Then 'Daylight,' the Sylvester Stallone [summer] movie, got delayed. So [Universal] dumped 'Frighteners' into 'Daylight''s spot as if it was just filler. And people went expecting a summer film and got a Halloween film. The release wasn't a great experience, but I'm very proud of the film.''

Originally posted Mar 14, 2002
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