BusinessWeek profiles Lucasfilm for their Future of Work series, including a slide show. (via)
Star Wars link roundup
Hasbro profits tumble after Lucas stock buyback, but sales are strong for Transformers and Spider-Man toys.
No Harry! I swear!
- Jim Ward interviewed by San Jose Mercury News.
- THX moves beyond theaters.
- Pablo on why you don’t want to fly too close to Luke or stand too near Leia.
- Dave Dorman profiled in local paper.
- German robot masters walking
- Hamill not SW trivia master.
- Another Slave Leia group photo planned at Comic-Con. Sigh.
- Chewbacca dies at age 26. (Warning! PDF link.)
Star Wars roundup: I want them alive!
It pales in comparison to the news of the week, but Mark Hamill is one of Times Online’s 33 funniest Simpson’s cameos for Mayored to the Mob, the episode that features the classic ‘Luke be a Jedi Tonight’ The only clip I can find of it on Youtube is mostly dubbed in Spanish. Except for the song. Okay!
In the News
- LFL’s $5.8 million a year Presidio rent helps with upkeep of the national park
- The Marc Ecko line gets some press in USA Today
- IGN interviews Breckin Meyer about Robot Chicken. Lots of Star Wars special stuff, mostly on the second page.
- Report on James Earl Jones’ Declaration of Independence reading
- Claudia Kaven, who played Padme’s sister Sola Naberrie in the prequels, landed a lead in Daybreakers, a futuristic vampire flick.
From the Blogside
- AT-AT stroller dad at it again. More pictures!
- What would Chewbacca drive?
- Darth Vader doesn’t want an iPhone – he wants this phone.
Fandom doings
- Star Wars Egg Art. Well… it’s… um… different.
- Costumed fans pitching in at Wings Over The Rockies Air Museum next week.
- There’s a post-Star Wars void? No one told us!
Star Wars: It gets around
OH, IT’S ON NOW, BITCHES!
Silly Brits picked the Lord of the Rings trilogy over classic Star Wars in an Amazon.co.uk poll. Hometown advantage? The prequel trilogy rang in at #6 on the best list (beating Spider-Man) and #5 on the worst.
JESUS CHRIST IT’S A GOOGLE
Get in the car, ET! Google Maps Street View caught you on film! Or at least get rid of the lightsaber, dude. Your friends should get on that GPS thing by now.
MOVIE TYPE THINGS AND… STUFF
- Lucasfilm Singapore’s first work to be out by summer in “several America-made movies.” It can be press release tiem now pls?
- Sideshow interviews Lorne Peterson.
- Spielberg still cashing in on Star Wars bet. He gets 2.5%!
- Speaking of Spielberg, George Lucas is among the luminaries in the documentary Spielberg on Spielberg
FANDOM & Events
- Assembling A Galaxy, Canada’s first Star Wars exhibit.
- Pennsylvania collector Todd Lechniak profiled
- California fan club participates in fundraiser
MISCELLANY
- TOSblog taunts us with math. Dirty, dirty math.
- Search stats: Here a Darth, there a Darth, there a Dara Darth Darth. (also via TOSblog)
- Large-print Western cover art is using Han Solo as ‘inspiration.’ All things flow back to the source.
Master Replicas license expiring in 2007
Video: Inside the Presidio
Kara Swisher’s visit to Lucasfilm and ILM. There are people who don’t know who Boba Fett is? Perhaps there is hope for humanity yet. Seriously though, this video offers a good look at some of the movie stuff hanging around the place.
Is there a stock market analyst in the room?
Variety celebrates the 30th
With four articles – one on how Lucas and ILM redefined the industry; the fallout from the film’s wild success; keeping the franchise spinning via merchandising and (naturally) a galaxy of toys.
What George hath wrought
News: Panels, interview, ILM, and more
Full transcript from the Great To Be Nominated post-movie panel discussion. See how Pablo suffers so we might be properly informed?
Dutch fansite ToscheStation.nl interviews Rick McCallum about his background in film, working with George, and of course, the TV shows.
Three-part BBC series on ILM concludes with a look at the people driving the effects and a photo gallery.
Carrie Fisher one of the judges on Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett’s On the Lot, a Hollywood-based reality show debuting in May.
The Force In The Flesh, a new book about Star Wars body art, will debut at Celebration. Doesn’t appear to be an official release, but certainly of interest to many fans.
Pre-order the Star Wars stamps now.
Bonnie Burton hosting ‘Make Your Own Yoda Doll’ workshop at Maker Faire.