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Colin Wiseley
Expert Film Handler

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From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 02-14-2002 03:16 PM

Here's an interesting article. I guess Clones will have to be released on film after all.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/14/star.wars.clones.reut/index.html

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John Pytlak
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posted 02-14-2002 03:44 PM

FWIW, the CURRENT schedule for ShoWest has the following entry for Tuesday March 5:

"6:30pm Dinner: "Sponsored by Texas Instruments":

http://www.showest.com/schedule.cfm

I printed out the ShoWest schedule of events on January 29, when it said:

"6:30pm Dinner: Texas Instruments hosts a LucasFilm Ltd. Presentation".

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Greg Mueller
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posted 02-14-2002 05:09 PM

I guess LucasFilm will be wanting to change their name to LucasPixel fairly soon.

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Joe Redifer
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posted 02-14-2002 07:01 PM

They will probably show extended scenes from the new Star Wars but I doubt they'll show the entire movie. Hey, I could be wrong!

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 02-14-2002 07:11 PM

Are you kidding? Showing the whole movie would mean George Lucas would have to give it to 4000 people for free.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
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posted 02-14-2002 09:40 PM

He'd never do it in a million light years!

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Joe Redifer
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posted 02-15-2002 01:27 AM

Light years are a measure of distance, not time.

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Josh Jones
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posted 02-19-2002 09:09 AM

I doubt it would be lucaspixels, maybe lucasdigital or something. but as far as most of us are concerned, it might as well be MucasSucks LTD

Josh

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Ron Lacheur
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posted 02-19-2002 01:49 PM

" Lucas Digital " already exists.

ILM and Skywalker Sound are divisions of it.

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Dave Williams
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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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posted 02-19-2002 05:13 PM

Now lets go easy on the poor boy. Georgie has been away from his stash for so long, he has forgotten just how much great work can be done when you smoke em and toke em.

Remember THX 1138? Was that for drugs or against drugs. The film, while one of my favorites, is so bleak that you arent sure if george wasnt actually trying to write a commercial advocating the benefits of an lsd flashback.

Dave

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Colin Wiseley
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posted 03-01-2002 10:00 AM

Looks like the presentation at ShowWest is going to be the trailer for Attack of the Clones. Check out the link below. It doesn't say if it will be shown in digital or not.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/01/film.starwars.reut/index.html

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John Pytlak
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posted 03-01-2002 01:11 PM

The "official" word:
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/news/2002/02/news20020228.html
http://www.starwars.com/episode-ii/news/2002/02/news20020226b.html

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Scott Madsen
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posted 03-04-2002 10:05 PM

Then once they show the theatre owners the trailer, the next few weeks they start discussing terms for film bookings. Will be interesting to see what happens.

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Heyward Garner
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posted 03-05-2002 03:35 AM

I don't care how I get Ep. II, so long as I can play it on my screens...

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Charles Everett
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posted 03-05-2002 05:17 PM

Scott: This particular thread duplicates a thread already in Ground Level. Care to lock this thread and refer people?

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