By the same year, the corporate subsidiary had been discontinued and its business was absorbed into the various divisions of Lucasfilm.īetween 19, three Indiana Jones films, written by Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg, were released. In 1980, after Weber asked Lucas for fifty million dollars to invest in other companies and suggested that they sell Skywalker Ranch to do so, Lucas fired Weber and had to let half of the Los Angeles staff go. Lucas wanted the focus of the company to be making independent films, but the company gradually became enlarged from five employees to almost 100, increasing in middle management and running up costs. That year, Lucas hired Los Angeles-based real-estate specialist Charles Weber to manage the company, telling him that he could keep the job as long as he made money. It also produced the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special for 20th Century Fox Television.
as a subsidiary to control various legal and financial aspects of Star Wars (1977), including copyright, and sequel and merchandising rights. Lucas founded the Star Wars Corporation, Inc. In the mid-1970s, the company's offices were located on the Universal Studios Lot. Lucasfilm was founded by filmmaker George Lucas in 1971, and incorporated as Lucasfilm Ltd. Disney acquired Lucasfilm on October 30, 2012, for $4.05 billion in the form of cash and stock, with $1.855 billion in stock. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) are all among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens becoming the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada. The studio is best known for creating and producing the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as its leadership in developing special effects, sound, and computer animation for films. It is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. LLC is an American film and television production company, founded by filmmaker George Lucas in 1971 in San Rafael, California most of the company's operations were moved to San Francisco in 2005.
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