Here they are, then, the top ten filmmakers to take over the Star Wars franchise!
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We see great opportunity domestically to extend the breadth and depth of the Star Wars franchise into other categories.
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Han Solo is one of the best-known character from the Star Wars franchise.
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Games produced by LucasArts before its closure had moved away from adventure and moved nearly exclusively towards the Star Wars franchise.
The Star Wars franchise also meant big profits, an unstoppable Death-Star-sized money machine that has still never been matched in Hollywood history.
Disney will be better able to monetize the Star Wars franchise by incorporating it into theme parks, games, Disney TV and merchandising.
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Leaning heavily on the Star Wars franchise, the company is now the largest maker of videogames for computers, with about 10% of the market.
Whether it's televised train wrecks, musical scares, computer-generated disasters or videogame snooze fests, the Star Wars franchise has seen its share of bad ideas.
Does that hint that Abrams will be in not only a directing but also a producing role for the Star Wars franchise, for several films?
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Our Lucasfilm valuation is almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise, so any success from other franchises would provide upside to our base case.
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She'll join Disney as President of Lucasfilm, reporting into Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn and integrating and building the Star Wars franchise across our company.
ENGADGET: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, plans more Star Wars movies
The scheduled 3D release of two films in the Star Wars franchise has been postponed to enable filmmakers to concentrate on the next instalment in the series.
Lucasfilm, and more specifically the Star Wars franchise, fits perfectly within the Disney portfolio of intellectual properties and the strategic and financial implications of this acquisition are compelling.
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Yates could step into the Star Wars franchise just as he did with Harry Potter, and provide the continuity and large-scale directorial oversight necessary to guide such a sprawling project.
FORBES: Top 10 Best Filmmakers To Direct The New 'Star Wars' Movies
"Our valuation of Lucasfilm is roughly comparable to the value we placed on Marvel when we announced that acquisition in 2009, " Disney said, adding that the valuation was almost entirely driven by the Star Wars franchise.
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Our valuation focused almost entirely on the financial potential of the Star Wars franchise, which we expect to provide us with a stream of storytelling opportunities for years to come delivered via all relevant platforms on a global basis.
ENGADGET: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, plans more Star Wars movies
The "Star Wars" franchise will get two spinoff movies, Disney chief executive officer Bob Iger announced Tuesday.
Attendees at the closing ceremony for Star Wars Celebration VI, the franchise's massive fan event, learned that the epic movies that chronicle the rise of the Galactic Empire will be released back-to-back, with Episode II hitting theaters on September 20, 2013 and Episode III arriving soon after on October 11, 2013.
Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga and grow the franchise well into the future.
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The self-proclaimed nerd, like many Star Wars fans, has been profoundly affected by the franchise as he explains in this short conversation with Richard Bacon on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Life-to-date sales for the Call of Duty franchise have exceeded worldwide theatrical box office receipts for Harry Potter and Star Wars, the two most successful movie franchises of all time.
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That's when Twentieth Century Fox unleashed Attack of the Clones, the fifth installment in George Lucas' wildly popular Star Wars franchise.
Walt Disney animated feature, a Star Wars entry, and the offhand Disney-specific franchise entry (think Pirates of the Caribbean 5, coming summer 2015) means that Disney will have an annual slate of almost predetermined blockbusters without even breaking a sweat, which in turn will give them the financial safety net to withstand the periodic John Carter and make occasional non-tent poles like the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks.
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This franchise has evolved since the early LEGO Star Wars days.
Forty-four years later, the 21st official film in the second most lucrative movie franchise in history (after "Star Wars") has made its London premiere.
Robot Chicken also gave birth to another popular franchise: a series of animated parodies of the Star Wars films.
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Abrams told EW in November that he wouldn't be taking the reins of another intergalactic franchise: Disney's upcoming "Star Wars" extension.
We already know that JJ Abrams is set to direct Star Wars: Episode VII, but Disney has much bigger plans for the franchise than that.
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