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Lucas has always insisted he is a filmmaker first and foremost. And he does get passionate when talking about his craft, and his coming return to the director's chair for the first prequel (now that new film technology has made the job less onerous). "There was a cinematic innovation in the first Star Wars film that made people say, 'Gee, I'd never seen that before,'" he says. "I have the opportunity to do that again with the prequels. The fun part for me is to say, 'You want me to come back and do that...
Also expect to see a slew of original movies, including The Christmas Box, which first aired last year; the debut of the story's prequel, Timepiece, also starring Richard Thomas; A Holiday to Remember, a romantic drama featuring Connie Sellecca; and Mrs. Santa Claus with Angela Lansbury. The latter, a musical with 10 songs from Mame composer Jerry Herman, features Lansbury as a 1910 Santa's wife who, thanks to a sleighride gone awry, winds up managing an illegal sweatshop on Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...been a long, dry spell for Star Warshippers since the last movie, Return of the Jedi, hit theaters in 1983 (Fox released the original films but has no rights to any sequels). Lucas is now working on a three-part prequel. A source close to Lucas says he believes he can make the pictures at bargain prices by current Hollywood standards. The goal is to hold budgets at around $70 million, a feat that would be accomplished by using little-known actors and a lot of the computer wizardry that Lucas develops so brilliantly. Sets are already under construction...
Disney plans to release three or four DTV features a year, including sequels to The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and 101 Dalmatians, maybe Toy Story, and the live-action Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Other majors won't be far behind. Fox is readying a prequel to Casper...
...tireless. "The war was won in the trenches," he says, "from one bookstore to another." The book grew from a regional phenomenon into a national hit, reaching the paperback best-seller lists last year. That prompted Simon & Schuster to pay $4.2 million for The Christmas Box and its prequel, Timepiece, putting Evans into Marcia Clark's stellar company...