Bloomberg News article on Singapore mentions Lucasfilm’s animation facility. In addition to the animated TV series, Lucasfilm manager Christian Kubsch claims that they plan to produce a feature film in the studio as well. Interesting…
ILM receives National Medal of Technology
President Bush awarded the National Medal of Technology to Industrial Light & Magic today. George Lucas and ILM president Chrissie England were on hand to accept the honor.
ETA: AP article on the event, via Lucas Online.
Drink up!
Skywalker Ranch wines are available now. Get ’em before the TFN readers snatch it all up.
Be neighbors with Lucasfilm
You can rent housing in The Presidio, former army base, current national park, and home to Lucasfilm’s Letterman Digital Arts center. The park doesn’t get government funding, so renting space to businesses (LFL has a 99-year lease) and regular folks (1000 households) in San Francisco’s tough retail market is how they balance the books.
Breakfast with George
ILM turns 30, and The Hollywood Reporter interviews George Lucas, among other things. (Via SF Signal)
Lucasfilm Animation in Singpore opens
Lucasfilm labor issues?
The San Francisco Chronicle reported issues with union workers at Skywalker Sound and ILM in Thursday’s paper. That day, LFL filed an unfair labor complaint against the union.
This Week in SW
The preview for Star Wars Insider #84 is up, and it’s all about the clones… And coming up in the issue after that (#85) will be a Vader short story from Karen Traviss.
StarWarsShop.com has an exclusive Christmas Vader action figure that’s… um.. festive. Because nothing says ‘Happy Holidays’ like a blood-colored figure of everyone’s favorite Sith Lord…
And LFL is finally moving into the Presidio this week, so updates on starwars.com will be slim.
Lucasfilm pairs with HP
LFL names Hewlett-Packard their ‘preferred technology provider.’ They’ll be using HP tech for digital storage and to produce video games and effects.
Although marketing is mentioned briefly, there’s no word yet if this will lead to any kind of product tie-ins. Not that we wouldn’t mind Star Wars-themed paper products, hint hint.
The rapture will in fact occur next Thursday
With the JadeCon bearing down on us, blogging has been rather sparse. With my apologies, here’s a few things to check out:
The cast of the upcoming Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition (you may remember them from C3) will be performing at the opening of the Boston Museum of Science’s “Science of Star Wars” exhibit this fall. George Lucas himself will be there! We’ll going to start gathering nausea tips and soothing vapors for the cast at JadeCon.
Charles Ross, who performs the One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, has been getting quite a bit of press lately – mainly Reuters and The Associated Press which means he’ll no doubt be appearing in your local paper on the next slow news day.
Lucasfilm has hired Joshua Katz as a new head of marketing and is running Presidio with AMD Opteron processors.
Business cards for various Star Wars and Star Trek characters. (Via Boing Boing)
And finally, for Hyperspace members, CJer Charlene Newcomb’s story Turning Point is the latest story on starwars.com.
I believe that about rounds it up… For now.