(25 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide, pan down, exterior of Odeon cinema
2. Medium shot director Peter Jackson
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Jackson, director:
"It's a terrific novel that Alice Sebold wrote and I read the novel as a reader. I was in the middle of doing the 'Two Towers' post production in 2002, so I was very busy, I wasn't looking for another movie to make but I was reading the book, just like anyone else does and I found it to be very affecting. I thought the themes were interesting because we all wonder what's going to happen to us after we die. That's one of those mysteries of humanity and the book addresses that in a really interesting way and I thought it would make a terrific movie."
4. Medium shot actress Rose McIver, slight zoom in on actress Susan Sarandon
5. Various of royal motorcade arriving at premiere
6. Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, getting out of car
7. Top shot of Charles and Camilla going inside theatre
8. Charles and Camilla coming up stairs
9. Various of Charles and Camilla greeting cast of "Lovely Bones"
10. Charles greeting director Peter Jackson and wife Fran Walsh
STORYLINE
Director Peter Jackson was joined by the cast of his new film "The Lovely Bones" on the red carpet in London's Leicester Square on Tuesday night for the film's Royal Film Performance and world premiere.
The movie got the royal stamp of approval in October when it was announced that it had been selected for the UK's Royal Film Performance, which is the principal fundraising event of The Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF).
All money raised from the event will go directly to the charity, which supports film and TV employees and their families in times of hardship.
The premiere was attended by Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
The film is an adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-selling novel of the same name about a murdered teenage girl, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) watching over her family and her murderer from heaven.
But Susie must decide what is more important to her, vengeance or her family's happiness.
Jackson said he first read the novel in 2002 and had no intension of making it into a movie.
"I was in the middle of doing the 'Two Towers' post production in 2002, so I was very busy, I wasn't looking for another movie to make but I was reading the book, just like anyone else does and I found it to be very affecting," he said.
"I thought the themes were interesting because we all wonder what's going to happen to us after we die. That's one of those mysteries of humanity and the book addresses that in a really interesting way and I thought it would make a terrific movie," Jackson added.
Susan Sarandon, who plays Susie's grandmother in the film, brought a touch of Hollywood glamour to the premiere, but only briefly stopped to talk to press.
The film also stars Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci.
"The Lovely Bones" will be released in the UK and Ireland on 29 January 2010 and will go on limited release in the US from 11 December 2009.
It will be released nationally in the US on 15 January 2010.
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