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Lucasfilm Exiting Movie Business?

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How much has Lucasfilm really done in its history? The original Star Wars Trilogy, Howard the Duck, Indiana Jones, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles on TV, Willow, the prequels, and now a planned TV show. All this says to me is marketing stuff to cover up for the fact that Lucasfilm doesn't do more than one thing at once. Not counting stuff like ILM, that ends up spending most of its time working on stuff for other studios. But Lucasfilm doesn't really make much. Thats why we have things like the SE, the '04 DVDs, and the endless repackaging of the DVDs. They don't have much going on. They have always been about low output.
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Indiana Jones was made by Lucasfilm?
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I thought Paramount produced it.
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ILM selling their physical effects unit, the OOT getting released at all, even in poor quality, now this. What the hell is happening? I keep getting this nagging feeling (or hope) that there is something going on that we don't know about.

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You know, I tend to see his point of view to some degree. Hollywood get's lucky with one investment and they take it to the limit. Now, with TV, you've got some revenue coming in from broadcast advertising and then sales from DVD or pay-per-view as they want to do. Some may argue that he's a bad film maker (hence the irony of him putting money into film school) but I find him a respectable businessman. If you can take one idea and make an entertainment empire like Lucas or even WWE chairman Vince McMahen (sp) then why not?
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all this means is the new star wars ventures are for television duh!

Plus he has always wanted an alternative to the studio system, now he'll be able to be his own release company as well as production company.


Red Tails and Indy 4 being his last hollywood films, maybe. Unless he decides to change his mind about episodes 7-9, which is highly doubtful.

as for him donating money to usc film school that is nothing new it's his place to pick up the next generation of lucas employees, as it always has been, as well as some of the other universities where his friends went.

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When you think about it, it really is sad. For people who have seen THX and Graffiti, and even the first Star Wars (outside the context of the dead bloody corps of the beaten horse), there was a lot of potential in this guy. If he had stayed on that track we could have expected to see great things from him. Didn't he say something about going on to do his artsy, experimential films after ROTS was finally finished? I guess that is down the crapper again. Probably for the best.

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Originally posted by: C3PX
When you think about it, it really is sad. For people who have seen THX and Graffiti, and even the first Star Wars (outside the context of the dead bloody corps of the beaten horse), there was a lot of potential in this guy. If he had stayed on that track we could have expected to see great things from him. Didn't he say something about going on to do his artsy, experimential films after ROTS was finally finished? I guess that is down the crapper again. Probably for the best.


Lucas has been saying he wants to do something experimental or "artsy" every since ROTJ wrapped back in 1983, and he still hasn't done anything. If Lucasfilm does exit the film business, I say good riddance to their bad rubbish.
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Originally posted by: C3PX
When you think about it, it really is sad. For people who have seen THX and Graffiti, and even the first Star Wars (outside the context of the dead bloody corps of the beaten horse), there was a lot of potential in this guy. If he had stayed on that track we could have expected to see great things from him. Didn't he say something about going on to do his artsy, experimential films after ROTS was finally finished? I guess that is down the crapper again. Probably for the best.

Lucas has been saying he wants to do something experimental or "artsy" every since ROTJ wrapped back in 1983, and he still hasn't done anything. If Lucasfilm does exit the film business, I say good riddance to their bad rubbish.


I think that Lucas is sort of stuck in Star Wars now. That might be part of the problem, a sort of rut. As for the T.V. series, I say be careful. The light that burns twice as bright burn half as long, and if you milk the cash cow too much, it'll run dry. Obviously, Star Wars still ahs plenty of life, but I think that Lucas should be wary.

as for him donating money to usc film school that is nothing new it's his place to pick up the next generation of lucas employees, as it always has been, as well as some of the other universities where his friends went.


That a bit cynical. I'll give him the benifit of the doubt for giving money to the less fortunate. Ironically, there was a time when I'd have love to have worked for Lucasfilm.

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