George Lucas

In one of the biggest movie studio purchases in history, Disney is paying $4.05 billion to buy Lucasfilm Ltd., the production company behind the block...

In 1977, fans -- some dressed as Chewy or Luke Skywalker -- wrapped around their local cinema to see the release of George Lucas's "Star Wars." An...

Lucasfilm announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the Grady Ranch project, the planned expansion of Skywalker Ranch. Instead, George and crew will be ...

On one hand, that means that every respective demographic was ably served this weekend. On the other hand, one can only wonder how much cash was sacrificed by opening these four movies on the same weekend.

Let's revisit the newly dimensionalized version of this "first" Star Wars installment and discuss whether the upgrade is worth donning the special "Collectible Keepsake" 3D glasses.

Taking away the fact that one film was a cinematic breakthrough and launched the fandom of a hundred-million would-be movie lovers and the other was released under crushing expectations, The Phantom Menace is really no better or worse than Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.

George Lucas knows you "Star Wars" fans are pissed at him. You don't need to remind him. However, that won't stop the director from defending the infa...

May 19, 1999, was going to be one of the greatest days of my life -- and it was all going to begin at midnight. Yeah, I was that guy. I was the guy who scoured every nook and cranny of the Internet in an effort to digest every possible rumor about what I might see in "The Phantom Menace." I was the guy who was camped out for hours in an effort to purchase tickets to see "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace." I was the guy who then waited in line for hours to ensure halfway decent seats to "The Phantom Menace." I was the guy who cheered the 20th Century Fox logo. I was the guy who cheered when "STAR WARS" flashed on the screen, accompanied by John Williams' very famous score. And, for a brief moment in time, I was the guy who loved "The Phantom Menace."

When "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" first premiered on May 19, 1999, it had been 16 years since the last new Star Wars movie. So, yes, there was a lot of anticipation and speculation. That's a stark contrast to this week, which finds "The Phantom Menace" being re-released in 3D to a collective shrug amongst even the most die hard "Star Wars" fans. That's a far cry from the lead up to its original release, which caused a very young Internet to explode with crazy rumors about the new film; rumors that were, for the most part, not true.

The man simply doesn't know how to slow down. As Lee says in With Great Power about being the impresario of today's comic book cinema: "I'm having fun! Don't punish me by making me retire."

In a somewhat refreshing turn of events, this weekend had three wide releases, all budgeted below $45 million and all technically geared towards adults. And for the fourth straight weekend this month, an R-rated new release topped the box office.

Finally, a George Lucas feud that doesn't involve "Star Wars" (at least, not yet). In his attempt to build a brand-new film studio just north of San F...

Maybe George Lucas should have made sure 20th Century Fox released "Red Tails" last weekend. Not only would its true story of an early civil rights vi...

As I type this, I'm on a flight to Park City, Utah, to attend the Sundance Film Festival. It's a very, VERY, bumpy flight -- headwind, turbulence a...

George Lucas' "Red Tails," his action adventure about the Tuskegee Airmen, opens this weekend after twenty years in development. Featuring a cast and ...

One of the perks of being president is the opportunity to live in the White House, a 132-room mansion -- complete with bowling alley and private movie...

"Red Tails" is a Lucasfilm production that's loosely based on the Tuskegee Airmen, a band of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. While watching the new film, it was hard not to notice that "Red Tails" is quite similar to another Lucasfilm production about a band of pilots who fought for the Rebel Alliance: "Star Wars." Just how similar is "Red Tails" to the original "Star Wars"?

In a forest-clearing New York Times profile, George Lucas pulled a Soderbergh (new catch phrase?): "I'm retiring." "I'm moving away from the busine...

In an industry still hesitant to make films about today's War on Terror, and with memories of World War II fading, Russian authoritarians are on their way to becoming Hollywood's safe, consensus villains of the moment.