Dave McNary Film ReporterPeter Jackson is getting into the business of animation. The filmmaker’s special effects company Weta Digital is launching an an animation division.Industry veteran Prem Akkaraju will serve as its chief executive officer.
The New Zealand-based company said Thursday that creating animation has been a long-held dream of majority owners Jackson and Fran Walsh, who will write, produce and direct several animated projects for the company.
Details of those projects were not disclosed.“We are huge fans of animated storytelling in all of its forms, but it can be a long, protracted, and often costly way to make movies,” Jackson said in a statement.
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