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LOS ANGELES - George Lucas is revisiting familiar space in the heart of Hollywood to unveil his new "Star Wars" adventure. The animated tale "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" will have its world premiere at the Egyptian Theatre along Hollywood Boulevard on Aug. 10, five days before it opens in theaters. Lucasfilm announced the premiere Wednesday. Proceeds from the premiere will benefit the American Cinematheque, a film organization based at the Egyptian, which opened in 1922. The Egyptian was...
Fans never seem to get their fill of "Star Wars," and George Lucas is happy to oblige.Lucas offered a glimpse into the latest creation in his sci-fi universe at the theater-owners convention ShoWest on Thursday, showing a sequence from "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," a computer-animated movie due in theaters Aug. 15. It will be followed by a TV series of the same name, to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall.The movie came about as an afterthought while Lucas was...
The "Star Wars" universe, already substantially rendered by computer generated imagery, is giving in all the way to animation."Star Wars: The Clone Wars," an animated film, will open in theaters Aug. 15 and be followed by a TV series of the same name, to air on the Cartoon Network and TNT this fall."I felt there were a lot more 'Star Wars' stories left to tell," said "Star Wars" creator George Lucas in a statement. "I was eager to start telling...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Force may soon be coming to a television near you.George Lucas is planning a live-action television series spinoff of the "Star Wars" film franchise.Lucas told The Los Angeles Times he has "just begun work" on the series, which will not include the films' major characters Luke Skywalker or Darth Vader."The Skywalkers aren't in it, and it's about minor characters," Lucas told the Times on Tuesday.Lucas wouldn't reveal details, but joked that...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The wars aren't over for "Star Wars" creator George Lucas. Lucas said Wednesday he's making an animated TV series of "Clone Wars" that could air next year, although he hasn't sold the show to a network yet. The series is set during the time when the Republic is fighting a civil war against separatists led by Count Dooku. The mythic period hasn't been dealt with too much in the popular "Star Wars" movies, so "it's a fun place to go,"...
By Paul Majendie EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Actor Charles Ross first went to a galaxy far, far away on a remote farm in Canada. With The Force with him, he ended up performing his one-man Star Wars trilogy show to 30,000 fans at film conventions across the United States. Now the Canadian is flinging himself across the stage for 60 minutes every evening at the Edinburgh Fringe arts festival, playing all the characters, singing the music, flying the ships and fighting the battles. Leaping...
By Gregg Kilday LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Was it the couch-jumping? The marketing? Some flaw in the movie itself? Ever since Paramount Pictures' "Mission: Impossible III" opened Friday to what most observers judged a disappointing three-day domestic gross of $47.7 million, the hunt has been on to explain the shortfall. One theory holds that as the third film in a series, "M:I-3" is simply experiencing franchise burnout. But the reality, as far as that notion goes, might be...
By Jason Szep BOSTON (Reuters) - It's a "Star Wars" fan's dream -- the first public display of props and costumes from all six films in the series, including a replica cockpit of Han Solo's asteroid-battered Millennium Falcon. But the $5 million exhibit goes beyond entertainment and turns "Star Wars" into a educational tool for science and technology, fields in which U.S. dominance faces a challenge from a new generation of engineers in Asia. "Star Wars: Where Science Meets...
By Jason Szep BOSTON (Reuters) - It's a "Star Wars" fan's dream -- the first public display of props and costumes from all six films in the series, including a replica cockpit of Han Solo's asteroid-battered Millennium Falcon. But the $5 million exhibit goes beyond entertainment and turns "Star Wars" into a educational tool for science and technology, fields in which U.S. dominance faces a challenge from a new generation of engineers in Asia. "Star Wars: Where Science Meets...
By Jason SzepBOSTON -- It's a "Star Wars" fan's dream -- the first public display of props and costumes from all six films in the series, including a replica cockpit of Han Solo's asteroid-battered Millennium Falcon.But the $5 million exhibit goes beyond entertainment and turns "Star Wars" into a educational tool for science and technology, fields in which U.S. dominance faces a challenge from a new generation of engineers in Asia."Star Wars: Where Science Meets...
