Massive Gallery of Vehicle Models Build by ILM for Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)

140 up-close photos of ship and vehicle models constructed by ILM for the Original Star Wars Trilogy (1977-1983)

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco is a compelling exploration of the legendary filmmakers who call the San Francisco Bay Area home including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Chris Columbus and producer Saul Zaentz.

Interview with Gary Leva director of 'Fog City Mavericks' 

The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (PBS special 1981)

Also check out:
// Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary

The Future Of The Movies (1990)

via /film

Star Wars Original Trilogy Documentary

In light of the recent developments with Disney purchasing Lucasfilm I figured this would be a fitting post. I just hope Lucasfilm didn't sellout to the Empire... I don't think Disney always follows the path of the Jedi :P


Interesting article over on The Guardian

Star Wars: Why Disney was destined to buy Lucasfilm

Mark Hamill revealed details about Star Wars: Episode VII in 1983 via io9

Super 8mm Footage From ‘Return of the Jedi’

This is some great footage of the Return of the Jedi film set in Buttercup Valley, CA! Funny enough a friend of mine also has some super8 footage from this shoot. Hopefully he'll get around to converting it to digital at some point. I'll keep nagging him heh heh

Seven Minutes of Super 8mm Behind the Scenes Footage From ‘Return of the Jedi’ via /film

and in other news //

Lucas taps Kennedy as co-chair of Lucasfilm