George Lucas Bio: Homework

                  George Walton Jr. Lucas was born on May 14, 1944 in Modesto, California. Lucas attended University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. While he was there, he learned many things about Cinematic Arts and that is probably what brought his success now. He was worth $3 billion in the year 2010. He is an film director, producer, and film writer. He is well known for creating the movie Star Wars and the character Indiana Jones. Now, he is one of the most popular and one of the most successful directors and producer in cinema history.

             George Lucas's first Star Wars came out on May 25, 1977. He started out by taking small notes and ended up putting it all together into a script, forming a movie. When it first came out, everyone rushed out to movie theaters to see it on opening night. People would line up and wait a week for opening night because back in those days, the graphics of it were just so clear and amazing to people. If you play close attention to the movie, you might see some goofs. This film earned $460 million in the United States and $337 million overseas, beating the movie "Jaws" gross revenue. It got ten nominations, but still got 6/10 awards!

                After making the first Star Wars movie, it was a huge hit! He continued to make 5 more to continue the fantastic series. The 6 movies are "The Phantom Menace" (May 19, 1999), "Attack of the Clones" (May 16, 2002), "Revenge of the Sith" (May 15, 2005), "A New Hope" (May 25, 1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (May 21, 1980), and "Return of the Jedi" (May 25, 1983). He is extremely rich after making all of these movies and they are still popular, watched today.