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Ironically, the direst predictions about the fate of the blockbuster come from the man whose mega-grossing films helped coin the term, George Lucas. In a recent interview with New York Daily News, the “Star Wars” mogul predicted that by 2025 the average budget of...
Out of Star Wars came Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), his computerized effects company, and THX, the advanced sound system for theaters, and a little studio, specializing in digital animation, that became Pixar. (Lucas sold that one to fellow visionary capitalist Steve Jobs.) The film?s triumph also allowed him to...
At 61, a man with so much past could be pardoned for not paying much attention to the future. Lucas refers to himself as "retired"-meaning, he explains, he has no more Star Wars movies to make. Yet, as these excerpts from our two-hour phone conversation indicate, he has...
I?m a 19th century guy when it comes to technology, so before plugging a tape recorder into my office phone I asked Lynne Hale, Lucas? indefatigably cheerful and helpful Director of Communications, to record the interview on her end too. It happened that, on both sides, a few minutes...
George Lucas: It was the money from Star Wars and Jaws that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. The money that Star Wars made, half of it goes to the theater owners. The theater owners said, "Let?s do some expansion. Let...