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George Lucas Sells Star Wars Production Company To Disney For $4 Billion
Filmmaker George Lucas has passed on the Star Wars torch to bosses at Disney after selling his production company for a whopping $4.05 billion.The movie mogul founded Lucasfilm in 1971 and since then he has...
By WENN on 30 October 2012
Steven Spielberg Wants Lucas To Sort Out Indiana Jones 5 Script
Steven Spielberg has urged George Lucas to get the 'Indiana Jones 5' script ''organised''. The Hollywood director - who helmed the first four movies in the franchise - is desperate to make a fifth film...
By Bang Showbiz on 20 September 2012
Remaining Star Wars Prequels Will Get 2012 3d Release In 2013
The might of the Star Wars franchise appears to know no bounds. According to the Cinema Blend blog, Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace is currently ranked as 2012's 50th highest grossing movie....
By WENN on 28 August 2012
Oprah Winfrey Tops Highest Paid Celebrity List
Oprah Winfrey has topped the Forbes List for celebrity wages, reports Reuters. She secures the top spot despite recent failings. In spite of wrapping up her world-famous talk show last year, and the muted success...
By WENN on 28 August 2012
Oprah Winfrey Tops Forbes Highest Paid Celebrities List
Oprah Winfrey has been named the highest paid celebrity for the fourth year in a row.The media mogul - who quit her successful chat show last year after 25 years to focus on running her...
By Bang Showbiz on 27 August 2012
Keanu Reeves: Side By Side Is Personal
Keanu Reeves thinks making 'Side By Side' was a deeply personal experience.The 'Matrix' actor - who made his producing debut alongside Chris Kenneally - says his new documentary, which tackles the debate between traditional and...
By Bang Showbiz on 27 August 2012
George Lucas Warns Of Indiana Jones Delay
George Lucas fears his retirement plans may be on hold for the foreseeable future, because his final Indiana Jones plot needs approval from both Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.The director, who created the archaeologist adventurer...
By WENN on 11 June 2012
George Lucas Retiring
George Lucas is still planning to retire. The 'Star Wars' director is hoping to give up on Hollywood and make small scale movies at home for his own enjoyment. He told Empire magazine: ''I'm moving...
By Bang Showbiz on 01 June 2012
Red Tails Takes Off On Dvd
Red Tails , which producer George Lucas financed out of his own pocket after the major studios spurned it, flew to first place on the Nielsen Video Scan First-Alert chart in its first week on...
By Lew Irwin on 31 May 2012
Carrie Underwood And Mike Fisher To Open Up About Marriage
Country singer Carrie Underwood and her hockey-playing husband Mike Fisher are the latest invitees to be on the latest hit-venture from Oprah Winfrey, when the two feature on the next episode of Oprah's Next Chapter....
By WENN on 16 May 2012
Lady Gaga Cast As Alien In 'Men In Black 3'
You kind of suspected it of both of them, Lady Gaga is possibly too eccentric for anyone on earth to comprehend, whilst there's something almost unnatural about the squeaky clean appearance of 18 year-old pop...
By WENN on 26 April 2012
Darth Vader Character Designer Ralph Mcquarrie Dies, Aged 82
The Star Wars character designer Ralph MCQuarrie has died, aged 82. Washington Post reports that MCQuarrie passed away on March 3, 2012 at his Berkeley, California home, having suffered complications from Parkinson's disease. MCQuarrie also...
By Lew Irwin on 05 March 2012
George Lucas Pays Tribute To Star Wars Artist Mcquarrie
George Lucas has paid tribute to Ralph MCQuarrie, the artist who helped him bring his Star Wars vision to the big screen, after his death on Saturday (03Mar12).MCQuarrie was 82 years old when he passed...
By WENN on 04 March 2012
Vanity Fair Oscars Party 2012: Who Mixed With Who?
As the Oscars ceremony wound-down at the Kodak Theatre on Sunday (26 February 2012), staff at the Sunset Tower Hotel were frantically preparing their ballroom for the prestigious Vanity Fair after-party, which had already welcomed...
By Lew Irwin on 28 February 2012
Stormtroopers Share Popcorn At Star Wars 3d Screening
Star Wars cinemagoers in London were stunned this week, when a team of Stormtroopers marched into the screening of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace 3D at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Gardens, reports...
By Lew Irwin on 09 February 2012
Spike Lee Unedited: Hollywood Knows Nothing About Black People
At this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film director Spike Lee surprised audiences with a fiery tirade, peppered with expletives, explaining his feelings regarding the treatment of black people in the film industry. Lee did...
By WENN on 23 January 2012
George Lucas Had Near-fatal Car Accident In High School
George Lucas defied doctor's odds to make a full recovery after a severe car accident almost claimed his life in high school.The Star Wars creator was driving home from school in the middle of his...
By World Entertainment News Network on 23 January 2012
Kate Beckinsale's Underworld Takes A Bite Out Of Box Office Competition
Despite receiving a lukewarm critical response, Kate Beckinsale 's latest Underworld movie - Underworld: Awakening - has topped the U.S. Box office charts. According to Bbc News today (January 23, 2012), the film grossed $25.4...
By WENN on 23 January 2012
Movie Reviews Red Tails
If, as George Lucas has announced, Red Tails , his take on the all-black Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, turns out to be his last Hollywood movie, he's going out in a blaze of...
By Lew Irwin in Movies / TV / Theatre on 20 January 2012
Kate Beckinsale's Catsuit Expected To Win Box Office Battle
Kate Beckinsale squeezes back into her leather catsuit for the latest movie in the Underworld franchise, which looks on course to topple the box-office competition over the weekend. The actress, 38, reprises her role as...
By WENN on 20 January 2012
No More Star Wars: George Lucas Retires From Blockbusters
George Lucas says he is "retiring" from making blockbuster movies after his latest venture, war movie Red Tails, was rejected by all of the major studios. The director, who financed the project himself, says movie...
By WENN on 18 January 2012
Lucas To Retire From Blockbusters, Make "Personal" Films
Apparently disgusted with his treatment by Hollywood studios when he approached them to finance Red Tails, his film about World War II's famed Tuskegee Airmen, featuring an all-black cast, George Lucas has told the New...
By Lew Irwin on 18 January 2012
George Lucas Is Retiring From Big Budget Films
Legendary filmmaker George Lucas has announced he is retiring from Hollywood, insisting he no longer wants to make blockbuster movies.The Star Wars creator is best known for his work on the iconic sci-fi franchise, as...
By WENN on 18 January 2012
George Lucas To 'Retire' Following 'Red Tails' Rejection
George Lucas has claimed that he's done with making blockbusters, revealing that it was the realisation that Hollywood weren't prepared to invest in his latest film 'Red Tails' that heralded the decision, the legendary film-maker...
By WENN on 18 January 2012
Lucas Hollywood Won't Make An All-black Big-budget Movie
His films may have earned more money than those of any other producer, but George Lucas says he was unable to find a single studio executive willing to back his film, Red Tails , about...
By Lew Irwin on 12 January 2012
Oprah Lifts Her Own Network
The only thing Oprah Winfrey's struggling cable network OWN needed was Winfrey herself, it seemed apparent on Tuesday as ratings for the second episode of her new series Oprah's Next Chapter attracted 1.6 million viewers....
By Lew Irwin on 11 January 2012
George Lucas Couldn't Get Studios To Support His Red Tails Movie
Movie studio executives turned down the chance to distribute Star Wars creator George Lucas' new war movie Red Tails - because they didn't think the big-budget epic about the heroic African-American Tuskegee Airmen would be...
By WENN on 11 January 2012
George Lucas Gives Determined Parents Of Sick Princess Leah Rare Helmets
Movie mogul George Lucas has pledged his support to the family of a desperately ill little girl named after one of his most iconic Star Wars characters.Little Leah Esquenazi, who is nine months old, is...
By WENN on 05 December 2011
Movie Reviews The Muppets
If George Lucas had been assigned the task of staging the motion-picture comeback of the Muppets, he might have done to them what he did to Yoda, his Star Wars character originally created in Jim...
By Lew Irwin on 23 November 2011
Indiana Jones 5 On The Way, Claims Spielberg
A fifth Indiana Jones movie is likely to begin production in the near future, after director Steven Spielberg revealed his close friend and collaborator George Lucas is working on the script. During an interview with...
By Lew Irwin on 27 October 2011
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