1. A most desirable place for all the venerable directors in America – it’s George Lucas’ ranch in Northern California. He bought it in the mid-80’s and made it a real studio. It was there filming his movies Spielberg, Dante, Zemeckis and Cameron. Before the premiere of ”Attack of the Clones” on this ranch for the first time allowed journalists and ordinary fans. Ranch called “Skywalker”.
2. How can I earn only to “Star Wars”. At this point in the world sold about 15,000 different kinds of toys on “Star Wars”. Only plastic figures of characters sold about 250 million, and considered only those that were sold under license. Playing cards “Star Wars” can be purchased for $ 6, a helmet of Darth Vader – for 129.95 and laser swords Jedi – for 349 dollars. To buy all the toys, devoted to “Star Wars”, you will need at least $ 10 000.
3. And so if we are talking about money in 2000, the company earnings Lucasfilm $ 2 billion. This is more than the revenue of the budget of Estonia.
4. And Lucas’ own digital studio, and have the special effects from Lucas is very fashionable in Hollywood. Lucas’ studio work, for example, in Jurassic Park. In general at Lucas about 14 of his productions (including the animation studio Pixar, which filmed “Shrek”), and he – the world’s only financially independent filmmaker.
5. “Attack of the Clones” – the first film in the history of cinema, shot entirely on digital video, there is not one inch of this film. Because of this, it is cheaper: only $ 100 million with 115, who spent a “veiled threat”.
6. Special effects. Their number is growing almost exponentially. In 4 (ie, 1-m) an episode of them was 545, a 5-m (ie 2-m) – 763, 6 th – 942, and the Phantom Menace effects were present in nine hundred thousand scenes of two thousand dvushot. As for the “Attack of the Clones”, then it is generally a solid special effects: no computer processing cost only 250 frames.
7. With regard to the title – TiEychIks November 1938, then this is related another interesting fact. This fad Lucas. These letters and numbers found in all his films. In particular, in the first episode, in November 1938 written on the back of a battle droid, which takes into captivity Jar Jar Binks, and it is clearly visible in the frame. A technology of improving the showing of films in cinemas, developed by one company Lucas said TiEychIks.
8. His first film – TiEychIks November 1938 – Lucas took off only because he asked for Francis Ford Coppola: he persuaded studio Warner Bros. in the fact that Lucas’ talent. And when Lucas began to shoot, Coppola – for luck – gave 777,777 dollars. The film flopped.
9. In this hard to believe now, but “Star Wars” Nobody wanted to shoot: absolutely on all the Hollywood studios the idea of Lucas considered a failure, and XX Century Fox agreed to begin filming only after Lucas refused the honorarium.
10. Let’s start with the fact that his creation of “Star Wars” required a car, which got George Lucas in high school. In general, he wanted to be a racing driver, and therefore sold all his toys and bought a used Fiat, which drove through the neighborhood, with difficulty respecting the rules of the road. Of course, it ended up by accident – the Fiat Lucas almost collided head on with a small truck, and just lying on a hospital bed, he suddenly had the idea of “force” – a kind of religion, professed knights and space through which good can withstand evil in the universe scale. After that, Lucas stopped thinking about racing and decided to become a director.
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