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Complete Star Wars Saga on Blu-ray

“The most anticipated Blu-ray release ever” begins the press release announcing the impending availability of the complete Star Wars Saga on Blu-ray.

Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray will feature all six live-action Star Wars feature films utilizing the highest possible picture and audio presentation, along with three additional discs and more than 30 hours of extensive special features including never-before-seen deleted and alternate scenes, an exploration of the exclusive Star Wars archives, and much more.

Save up to $50 off the MSRP if you pre-order now via Amazon (Prequel Trilogy set; Original Trilogy set; The Complete Saga). Ship date: September 2011.

George Lucas To Donate More Than Half Of His Wealth To Education

In a letter dated July 16, 2010, Lucas has agreed that he will donate the majority of his wealth (a.k.a. more than 50 percent) to improving our schools through the George Lucas

Educational Foundation. In the letter, he cites the importance of technology in the classroom as well as a fear that the "education system as little better than an assembly line with producing diplomas as its only goal."

Read More at Cinema Blend

Vader Hammer Time

Happy Friday!!!

Rango

First official character poster for, Rango.

Industrial Light & Magic-animated feature about a “chameleon with an identity crisis,” co-starring Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Harry Dean Stanton, Ray Winstone, and Timothy Olyphant. A tentative release date has been set for March 4, 2011.

The first full-length trailer of the Gore Verbinski-helmed, Industrial Light & Magic-animated feature.

Opening Text for Empire Strikes Back

Behind the scenes look at the opening text

crawl shoot for Empire Strikes Back.

just because...

Story, Story, Story...

I posted the hilarious 70 Minute Phantom Menace Review and now we have highly-anticipated review of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I know many young rising animation stars read this blog. Please take from this...story is everything, not random characters that look kewl.

ILM/Lucas Arts Parties

So, ILM/Lucas Arts have been sponsoring these parties in LA to try and recruit folks up north. I went to one in my Venice neighborhood at James Beach and met a bunch of my friends and some contributors to the book! After a long day of animating...free mojitos and food sounds pretty good! Here are some pix from that night...