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Post #297317

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zombie84
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George Lucas to host showing of Star Wars "1977" for AFI's 40th anniversary.
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Date created
15-Sep-2007, 3:27 PM
Although its gone virtually unreported, I believe that Lucasfilm recieved the full rights to Star Wars in exchange for Fox getting full distribution rights for the prequels. Very smart--Lucas finally bought the only film that Fox owned because Fox would do anything to get the next Star Wars trilogy (indeed, it netted them som $1 billion+). Thats why the older video boxes say ESB and ROTJ are copyright Lucasfilm and Star Wars copyright Fox but starting with the SE I believe everything belongs to Lucasfilm.