Lucasfilm

Lucasfilm Limited is an American film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in San Francisco, California. Lucas is the company's current chairman, and Micheline Chau is the president and COO.

The company is best known for producing the Star Wars films, but it has produced other box office hits, including the Indiana Jones franchise and American Graffiti. It has also been a leader in developing new film technology in special effects, sound, and computer animation, and because of their expertise its subsidiaries often help produce non-Lucasfilm pictures. Lucasfilm is set to move away from films and more into TV, due to rising budgets ^[1]. They also have a policy of offering no group discounts to their movies, probably for this reason.

In July 2005, Lucasfilm's marketing, online, and licensing units moved into the new Letterman Digital Arts Center located in the Presidio in San Francisco. It shares the complex with Industrial Light & Magic, and LucasArts.

Lucasfilm seems to have developed a relationship with the producers of the hit animated television series Family Guy, who happen to be big fans of the Star Wars saga, including creator Seth MacFarlane. Attorneys at 20th Century Fox had informed the Family Guy production staff that if they wanted to do Star Wars gags, they would have to get the clearance from Lucasfilm, who had actually approved once the gags were sent to them. They also endorsed the one-hour spoof, "Blue Harvest", especially George Lucas himself, who revealed in his conversation with MacFarlane that he's TiVoed every single episode of Family Guy without having to buy the DVDs.

Related companies

Subsidiaries

• Lucas Digital
  • Skywalker Sound - postproduction sound editing
  • Industrial Light & Magic - special effects
• Lucas Licensing - licensing and merchandising
  • Lucas Learning - educational materials
  • Lucas Books - book publishing
• LucasArts - video and computer games
• Lucasfilm Animation - animation
• Lucasfilm Animation Singapore - animation
• Lucas Online - websites

Former subsidiaries

• THX Ltd. - theater sound system (spun off in 2002)
• Pixar Animation Studios - computer animation film production company (sold to Steve Jobs in 1986).

Filmography

• American Graffiti (1973) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (co-production with 20th Century Fox)
• More American Graffiti (1979) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
• Twice Upon a Time (1983) (distributed by The Ladd Company through Warner Bros.)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) (distributed by Warner Bros.)
• Latino (1986)
• Labyrinth (1986) (co-production with TriStar Pictures)
• Howard the Duck (1986) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
• Willow (1988) (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Imagine Entertainment)
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
• Radioland Murders (1994) (distributed by Universal Pictures)
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
• Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) (co-production with Paramount Pictures, distributed by Lucasfilm Ltd.)
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) (co-production with Warner Bros. Pictures, distributed by Lucasfilm Ltd.)

See also

• EditDroid

References

External links

• LucasFilm website
• LucasArts website

• Lucasfilm Ltd. at the Internet Movie Database

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