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George Lucas took home his first-ever Emmy for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, earning the award in the Outstanding Special Class-Animation category. Overall, the fifth season of the series earned seven nominations at the 40th Anniversary Daytime Emmy® Awards which took place on June 16, 2013 in Beverly Hills. And in addition to Lucas’ win, [...]

The original draft screenplay to The Star Wars by George Lucas is going to serve as the source material for an eight issue comic series from Dark Horse. The new comic will be released in September, with J.W. Rinzler and Mike Mayhew adapting Lucas’ The Star Wars screenplay.   The rough-draft original screenplay was created [...]

That’s right, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is on the verge of celebrating its 100th episode. The animated series will mark the milestone on January 5, 2013 with the premiere of the episode “Missing in Action.” The episode will air at 9:30am on Cartoon Network.   Created/executive produced by George Lucas, the series continued the [...]

Now that George Lucas’ Lucasfilm is officially part of the Disney empire, it’s time for the Princesses – Snow White, Ariel, Belle, Cinderella and Aurora – to say hello to the newest member of their exclusive group, Princess Leia. And those talented guys at AVByte have come up with a song that expresses the ‘joy’ [...]

Mark Hamill (‘Luke Skywalker’) doesn’t exactly open up about what he knows regarding the upcoming Star Wars movie, Star Wars: Episode VII, but he seems happy enough about Disney purchasing Lucasfilm and planning more Star Wars movies. In this interview with Current TV, Hamill jokes that he’ll try to find out more about George Lucas’ [...]

George Lucas wants to see more Star Wars film but he also wants to retire. The solution? Sell Lucasfilm Ltd to Disney and let them move forward on more Star Wars projects. Lucas explains why he made the deal with Disney and what it means for the Star Wars franchise in this video of the [...]

Setting up Lucasfilm Ltd. to continue once he’s retired, George Lucas has named Kathleen Kennedy Co-Chair of Lucasfilm. Lucas will guide Kennedy into her new role, continuing as CEO will also transitioning into the position Co-Chairman of the Board. Micheline Chau remains in place as President and COO of Lucasfilm. “I’ve spent my life building [...]

Red Tails, a film that’s been a passion project of George Lucas’ for years, has finally nabbed a release date. The Lucasfilm Ltd production inspired by the heroic exploits of the first all African-American aerial combat unit will hit theaters on January 20, 2012 under the 20th Century Fox banner. Anthony Hemingway (Treme, The Wire, [...]