Lucasfilm
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Lucasfilm Ltd. is an American 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.
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) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
- (1977) (co-production with 20th Century Fox)
- More American Graffiti (1979) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
- (1980) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
- (1983) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
- Twice Upon a Time (1983) (distributed by The Ladd Company thru Warner Bros.)
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
- (1985) (distributed by Warner Bros.)
- Latino (1986)
- Labyrinth (1986) (co-production with TriStar Pictures)
- Howard the Duck (1986) (co-production with Universal Pictures)
- The Land Before Time (1988) (Studio Uncredited)
- Willow (1988) (co-production with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Imagine Entertainment)
- (1988) (distributed by Paramount Pictures)
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (co-production with Paramount Pictures)
- Radioland Murders (1994) (distributed by Universal Pictures)
- (1999) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
- (2002) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
- (2005) (distributed by 20th Century Fox)
- Indiana Jones 4 (expected in 2008) (co-production with Paramount Pictures and Amblin Entertainment)
- Red Tails (expected in 2008)
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