An example is Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Enya has performed several songs relating to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including 1991's " Lothlórien " ( instrumental ), and 2001's " May It Be " ( sung in English and Quenya ), and " Aníron " ( in Sindarin )— the latter two, which she composed, appearing in Peter Jackson's movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and its soundtrack album.

Peter Jackson's 1995 film Forgotten Silver was billed and introduced as a serious documentary, purporting to tell the story of ' forgotten ' New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

Peter Jackson's Braindead ( 1992 ) ( known as Dead Alive in the USA ) took the splatter film to ridiculous excesses for comic effect.

They had them done after the filming of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, since the characters they played were the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring.

Ian McKellen as Gandalf the White in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

These recordings are generally regarded as unintentionally camp, though his tongue-in-cheek performance of " The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins " received a fair amount of airplay when Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings films were released.

Smaug will appear in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit, and on 16 June 2011, it was announced that he will be voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch.

In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, a hyena-like, rather than wolf-like, design was chosen due to it looking more powerful.

In Peter Jackson's film trilogy based on The Lord of the Rings, all nine Nazgûl are shown onscreen riding them.

Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sean Bean as Boromir in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Boromir is played by Sean Bean.

Gondor as it appeared during in Peter Jackson's film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings has also been compared to the Byzantine Empire, for numerous reasons.

Sean Astin as Sam in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

In Peter Jackson's movie The Fellowship of the Ring, the filming location for Rivendell was Kaitoke Regional Park in Upper Hutt, New Zealand, though the extensive array of waterfalls was added with CGI.

In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, Gríma was played by Brad Dourif.

Wormtongue ( left ) as portrayed by Brad Dourif in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Radagast was not included in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Sylvester McCoy is to portray Radagast in Peter Jackson's upcoming Hobbit films.

Dwarves at the Council of Elrond in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

In Peter Jackson's live action adaptation of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Gimli's character is occasionally used as comic relief and several of his appearances are intended to emphasize the difference between the Dwarves and Elves.

Peter Jackson's Dwarves are depicted as wearing scale armour.

Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring begins with a similar prologue, though longer and more detailed.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

Since 1988's Dead Ringers, Cronenberg has worked with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on each of his films ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ).

Other early films include The Lineup, The Misfits, The Magnificent Seven ( he portrayed the Mexican bandit Calvera ), Lord Jim as the General, a comic role in How to Steal a Million ( the latter two with Peter O ' Toole ), and perhaps most famously, as Tuco ( the ' Ugly ') in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

Disney continued making animated films, notably ; Cinderella ( 1950 ), Peter Pan ( 1953 ), Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and Sleeping Beauty ( 1959 ).

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

British influence can also be seen with the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films, which include Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Robin Hood, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Rescuers and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Often starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and drawing on Universal's precedent, these films include The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), and Dracula ( 1958 ), both followed by many sequels, with director Terence Fisher being responsible for many of the best films.

The actors who played Hercules in these films were Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Kirk Morris, Mickey Hargitay, Mark Forest, Alan Steel, Dan Vadis, Brad Harris, Reg Park, Peter Lupus ( billed as Rock Stevens ) and Michael Lane.

The film's plot, setting, and style echoes that of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style ( just as Universal Studios ' horror films did ), and is reminiscent of the Hammer production of The Revenge of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing.

Feature films, such as The Reincarnation of Peter Proud, Dead Again, Kundun, Fluke, What Dreams May Come and Birth, contemporary books by authors such as Carol Bowman and Vicki Mackenzie, as well as popular songs, deal with reincarnation.

The music itself would be re-used in other films ( most notably the track " L ' Enfant " in The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1982 ) by Peter Weir ; the melody of same ( in marching band format ) can also be heard at the beginning of the 1924 Summer Olympics opening ceremonies scene in the film Chariots of Fire ) and television commercials ( the track " Hymne ", used in Barilla pasta commercials in Italy and Ernest & Julio Gallo wine ads in the US ).

He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with some of his most well-known films including Experiment in Terror, The Great Race, and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with the British comedian Peter Sellers.

Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas made all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew.

In the 1980s The War Game was followed by such similarly themed films as The Day After ( US ABC, TV film, 1983 ) and Threads ( BBC, 1984 ), the latter of which particularly evoked Peter Watkins ' style and delivery.

Bogdanovich, drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, authored several critically lauded books, including Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week, which offered the lifelong cinephile's commentary on 52 of his favorite films, and Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors and Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors, both based on interviews with directors and actors.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film a " captivating romantic bonbon " and added, " Don't look for the originality and grit that distinguished Weir's Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, Green Card has all the heft of a potato chip.

Among Loren's best-known films of this period are Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid ( 1961 ) with Charlton Heston, The Millionairess ( 1960 ) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples ( 1960 ) with Clark Gable, Vittorio De Sica's triptych Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow ( 1963 ) with Marcello Mastroianni, Peter Ustinov's Lady L ( 1965 ) with Paul Newman, the 1966 classic Arabesque with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ) with Marlon Brando.

Peter has been depicted on screen a number of times, almost always in films concerning his wife Catherine.

In most of the films, he was played by Peter Sellers, with one film in which he was played by Alan Arkin and one in which he was played by an uncredited Roger Moore.

The movie was a box office success and led to several more films after Sellers died in 1980 ; biographies of Sellers such as Peter Sellers — A Celebration reveal that he was involved in the pre-production of another Clouseau film, The Romance Of The Pink Panther, at the time of his death.