Peter Jackson Selling Weta Digital’s VFX Tech Division to Unity for $1.625 Billion

Peter Jackson has defended the hefty runtime of his new documentary series The Beatles: Get Back, admitting he wanted to include everything “important”.The newly-released three-part Disney+ series saw the Lord Of The Rings director wade through 60 hours of footage from Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 film Let It Be, which covers the making of the band’s final studio album.However, each episode of the documentary still comes in at between two and three hours long, with the whole series running at 468

Yoko Ono has shared an article online which says the new Peter Jackson Beatles documentary, Get Back, dispels rumours that she broke up the group.On Saturday (November 27), Ono shared an article titled “Beatles Fans Think ‘Get Back’ Dispels The Idea That Yoko Ono Broke The Band Up” on Twitter, where she has 4.6 million followers.The director’s three-part film charts the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’, and shows their final concert on London’s Savile Row rooftop in its

The Guardian last week, Jackson said he was sought out by Apple Corps – the company which has handled The Beatles’ business affairs since 1968 – because of his interest in virtual and augmented reality technology.

The Beatles once tried to make their own The Lord Of The Rings movie in the 1960s.The director who’s The Beatles: Get Back documentary debuted on Disney+ today (November 25), previously spoke about the failed project back in 2002, during the making of his trilogy.“It was something John [Lennon] was driving and J.R.R. Tolkien still had the film rights at that stage, but he didn’t like the idea of the Beatles doing it.

Let’s get this out of the way quickly: no matter how boring, predictable, rote and maybe Dad-rock-y it may sound to some, The Beatles remain one of the greatest bands of all time. The group was a towering collection of musicians who wrote the blueprint for almost all of the modern rock and pop genre, bold experimentalists and one of the first bands to use the studio as an artistic instrument.

If history had gone a bit differently, it might have been The Beatles who first brought The Lord the Rings to the big screen.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHow does anyone, especially a Beatle, write a melody? The answer may be as simple as it is mysterious. In “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s sprawling and revelatory fly-on-the-studio-wall documentary, there’s a great moment when we get to see it happen.

It’s not quite as arduous as Hobbits venturing to Mordor to destroy Sauron’s ring, but Peter Jackson’s immersed himself four years to bring to life the end of the long and winding road of The Beatles. The result is the 7-hour The Beatles: Get Back, which Jackson culled and restored from 60 hours of studio sessions and a rooftop concert.

The Beatles, Get Back, saying it will make the legendary band “seem young again”.The three part film, which is coming to Disney+ this week (November 25), focuses on the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’ and showcases their final concert as a band, on London’s Savile Row rooftop, in its entirety.The film has been cut from 55 hours of unseen footage, filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969, and 140 hours of mostly unheard audio from the recording sessions.

EXCLUSIVE: Mrs. Fletcher star Jackson White has been tapped as the male lead opposite Grace Van Patten in Tell Me Lies, Hulu’s straight-to-series drama based on Carola Lovering’s novel, which is executive produced by Emma Roberts.

Over the past few months, a snippet of an unreleased Polo G song began spreading like wildfire across TikTok. The preview interpolated Michael Jackson's 1988 hit "Smooth Criminal," and a song at that level is about as out of reach as sample clearances get for most artists.

The Beatles: Get Back.Following the first trailer last month, Disney has released new footage from the documentary series. It shows the band in the studio doing an early run-through of the track ‘I’ve Got A Feeling’.

Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back,” a three-night Disney+ event beginning on Nov.

Weta Digital, the Peter Jackson effects specialist known for its work on The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Game of Thrones and many other major film and TV properties, has been sold in a $1.625 billion deal.

Jackson Hastings insists he is ready for the challenge of the NRL after making the move back from the Super League.

Hollywood actress Margot Robbie has revealed that she is a 'massive Harry Potter nerd' and even married an extra from the films. The Suicide Squad actress, who transformed into a Love Island star as she celebrated her 31st birthday, tied the knot to Tom Ackerley in a secret ceremony in Byron Bay, Australia, in 2016.

Aaron Carter is paying tribute to Michael Jackson in a big way.