Major Parts of Digital Studio Behind ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films to Be Bought by Unity Software for Over $1.6 Billion

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Major Parts of Digital Studio Behind ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films to Be Bought by Unity Software for Over $1.6 Billion
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Unity Software is set to buy major parts of Peter Jackson’s visual-effects studio that helped create “Lord of the Rings,” “Games of Thrones” for $1.63 billion

Videogame company Unity Software Inc . agreed to pay $1.63 billion for major parts ofthat helped create such blockbusters as the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy and “Game of Thrones” television series.

The award-winning studio, Weta Digital, developed and owns visual-effects tools that can create high-quality realistic-looking characters and objects. In addition to “Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones,” it also helped make effects for movies such as “Avatar” and “Avengers: Endgame.”

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