So there was a report last week that problems behind the scenes of Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones caused a shutdown in production. Dreamworks honcho Stacey Snider told ComingSoon.net that report is not the case at all.
DreamWorks/Paramount told us on Friday that the drama will hit theaters in the fall of 2009 and not on March 13, 2009 as it was reported by sites last year. We asked the studio if this had anything to with the supposed "rift" between Jackson and his art director, but that's not the case at all.
Turns out, the movie was never scheduled for March 13 at all, there has not been a delay or "rift," and a fall 2009 launch was always the plan. DreamWorks chief Stacey Snider cleared up the issue by telling ComingSoon.net, "It was a very smooth shoot with no dissent, and all heaven sequences requiring sets or Art Dept involvement were completed on schedule in March. The only shooting remaining involves blue-screen VFX elements, which will be shot in June."
So there you go. If it was spin, it'd likely acknowledge yet diminish "creative differences." Outright denying it brings it the ring of truth.
