The 2011 “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” offered visual-effects breakthroughs, and the filmmakers raised the bar even higher in the 2014 sequel. The finale in the trilogy, 2017’s “War for the Planet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “What Joe Letteri and Weta Digital bring to these stories is impossible to quantify,” said Cameron. “Since we made Avatar, Weta ...

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 science-fiction author Neal Stephenson will play a key role in Lamina1’s Artefact collaboration with Weta Workshop. (Photo via Lamina1) A digital content platform inspired by Seattle ...

Weta Digital, one of the world’s premier visual effects companies founded by Peter Jackson, has sold its visual effects tech division to Unity in a $1.625 billion deal, according to an individual with ...

Weta's proprietary VFX tools have been used in films including 'The Lord of the Rings,' 'War for the Planet of the Apes' and 'Avatar.' By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Dubbed WetaM, the toolset will be ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The visual effects company Weta Digital became ...

Less than a month after WETA lost the taxpayer grants it had received for more than half a century, the station is going public with its survival strategies. “For the first time in more than 50 years, ...

WETA in Washington, D.C., has received a $750,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete an upgrade and expansion of its headquarters in Arlington, Va. The grant is ...