Lucasfilm
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Image:Lucasfilm.jpg Lucasfilm Ltd. is a film production company founded by George Lucas in 1971, based in Marin County, California. Lucas is its current chairman, and Micheline Chau is its president/chief operating officer.
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.
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 and Magic, and LucasArts.
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Related companies
Subsidiaries
- Lucas Digital
- Skywalker Sound - postproduction sound editing
- Industrial Light and Magic - special effects
- Lucas Licensing - licensing and merchandising
- Lucas Learning - educational materials
- Lucas Books - book publishing
- LucasArts - video and computer games
- Lucasfilm Animation - animation
- Lucas Online - websites
Former subsidiaries
- THX Ltd. - theater sound system (spun off in 2002)
- Pixar Animation Studio - computer animation film production company (sold to Steve Jobs in 1986)
Filmography
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Star Wars (1977)
- More American Graffiti (1979)
- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
- Twice Upon a Time (1983)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- Latino (1986)
- Labyrinth (1986)
- Howard the Duck (1986)
- The Land Before Time (1988)
- Willow (1988)
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- Radioland Murders (1994)
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
- Indiana Jones IV (expected in 2007)
- Red Tails (expected in 2008)
External links
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