Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh Launch Weta Animated; SR Labs’ Prem Akkaraju Named CEO & Sean Parker Joins Board
Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmAfter a distinguished run as the visual effects house that brought to life Gollum, King Kong and other incredible creatures for Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth films and other film spectacles including James Cameron’s Avatar sequels and Avengers: Endgame, Weta Digital is making a major expansion. Jackson and Fran Walsh’s 25-year old concern is launching the offshoot Weta Animated to generate for the first time original content in animation for cinema and streaming platforms.Spearheading that effort as CEO will be Prem Akkaraju, who co-founded SR Labs (formerly known as Screening Room) with Sean Parker.