“Lovely Bones” film to get royal premiere

Posted by brandy

on October 15, 2009M at 9:26 pm

Oscar winner Peter Jackson’s adaptation of “The Lovely Bones,” has been selected for the Royal Film Performance 2009. The world charity premiere will take place in late November in Leicester Squar, according to a news release

The highly anticipated film is based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold. It stars Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg (as Jack Salmon), Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz (Abigail Salmon), Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon (Grandma Lynn), Stanley Tucci (George Harvey), Michael Imperioli (Len Fenerman) and Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (Susie Salmon), many of whom are expected to attend along with members of Britain’s royal family.

“The Lovely Bones” is a DreamWorks and Film4 presentation of a Wingnut Production and is distributed by Paramount Pictures worldwide, on general release in the U.K. in January 2010. It opens Jan. 15 in the U.S.

The film centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

“I am honoured that ‘The Lovely Bones’ has been selected to be this year’s Royal Gala film, in support of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. This film has been an extraordinary journey, for myself as a filmmaker and for all of those who worked on it. On behalf of everyone involved, we are thrilled that Their Royal Highnesses and the CTBF audience will be amongst the first people in the world to see it,” Jackson said in the release.

The Royal Film Performance 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. For more information, go to www.ctbf.co.uk.

-BAM

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