Entertainment & Arts
The New Zealand digital effects firm, which is best known for its work on the ‘Rings’ films, now must branch out.
Nov. 23, 2003
Company Town
New Zealand director Peter Jackson is selling the tech division of his award-winning visual effects company Weta Digital to Unity Software Inc. $1.625 billion
Nov. 10, 2021
Hero Complex Blog
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Nov. 24, 2009
California
For more than a decade, Allen and Weta Mathies have made decisions important to the direction of County-USC Medical Center.
June 3, 1985
‘The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep’
Dec. 20, 2007
Television
Sharon Percy Rockefeller, who last March was named to head a search committee to find a new president-chief executive officer for WETA-TV-FM in Washington, is herself going to assume the post.
Nov. 1, 1989
Movies
New Zealanders wonder what’s next for Peter Jackson’s film production empire
A 60-year-old public radio personality suffered a stroke while hosting his classical music show Tuesday morning and died a few hours later.
July 18, 1990
The chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities has attacked the upcoming public television series “The Africans” as an “anti-Western diatribe,” “narrow and politically tendentious,” and demanded that the endowment’s name be removed from the list of the series’ major supporters.
Sept. 5, 1986
Chrysler Corp. will underwrite a $3.9-million grant to MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and WETA-TV in Washington for “Learning in America,” a five-part prime-time public-broadcasting series on the nation’s educational system--the car manufacturer’s first major commitment to public TV.
May 9, 1988