Unity Software, a 3D game-development platform, is expanding its VFX footprint in a big way with the $1.625 billion acquisition of the technology division of Peter Jackson’s New Zealand-based Weta ...

For the past three years, the wizards of Weta Digital have returned audiences to Middle Earth after first enthralling viewers with its wonders a decade ago. “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” ...

Peter Jackson’s first “Lord of the Rings” film, “The Fellowship of the Ring,” premiered in December, 2001, and celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. That “LOTR” trilogy owes a lot to the Jackson ...

Weta created the Oscar-winning VFX on 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Avatar.' By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Publicly traded tech firm Unity has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Peter ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Weta Digital is going all-in on AWS, leveraging the proven performance of the ...

Unity has announced its intent to purchase Weta Digital, the visual effects company co-founded by New Zealand film director Sir Peter Jackson, for $1.6 billion. Under the acquisition, Unity will ...

Unity is heavily expanding its available graphics and visual effects technologies as of it Q3 2021 earnings results reporting. It was there that the company announced it would be acquiring the New ...

Peter Jackson's Weta has launched an animation studio. The 'Lord of the Rings' helmer and writer/producer Fran Walsh plan to direct, write and produced animated features as the growing studio hires ...

HUZZAH! Dr. Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators, once the cutting edge of ray-pistol technology, were thought to be lost for all time. But 1,500 of the vintage firearms were recently discovered ...

So you know how earlier today you were concerned about those unpaid parking tickets and your winter heating bill? Yeah, well the good news is that you really don’t need to focus too much on that stuff ...