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@Cocolips1981 @PoweredUnity21 @CoachCo_Coffer definitely Landman…. TASK on HBO, Scarpetta on Prime, industry on HBO, A Knight of Seven Kingdoms (GOT) on HBO, The Night Manager on Prime, STEAL on Prime, The Pitt on HBO
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@PoweredUnity21 @CoachKese @CoachCo_Coffer Thank uu lioness have new episodes? I rewatched GOT and house of dragon and this is us lol
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George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys.
It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal.
Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise.
Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million.
And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion.
Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia.
The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
50 years ago today, ‘STAR WARS’ began filming.
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Release black men from jail with weed charges 💚
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Seth Rogen lights a giant bong to start his “Seth Smokes the Bowl” show at the Hollywood Bowl
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Last year, I met a Mexican athlete who told me an incredible story—that he’d been kidnapped in 2023 and forced to compete for his life in a secret tournament of cartels. Once I started reporting, the story only got more surreal.
For the May issue:
theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…
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