Movie News of the Day! (Year?)

"Peter Jackson tells Reuters that he recut his film adaptation of the Alice Sebold bestseller after a test screening.

Why he recut it though is a reason you rarely here - the audience "wanted far more violence". The director told the news services that the test groups weren't satisfied with the death of a character, and he re-edited the film to "basically add more violence and suffering" but still keep things in the PG-13 rating.

* SPOILERS * The article goes into detail as well about the changes made. The death involves a man falling off a cliff to his death. In the original cut, Jackson chose to simply have him disappear off the edge of a cliff. In the new cut, they use digital effects to add shots where (the character) bounces against the cliff on the way down."