Posts Tagged ‘George Lucas’

Trailering George Lucas’ Red Tails

Friday, July 29th, 2011

1944. World War II rages and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. Meanwhile the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program are courageously waging two wars at once — one against enemies overseas, and the other against discrimination within the military and back home. Racial prejudices have long held ace airman Martin “Easy” Julian (Nate Parker) and his black pilots back at base — leaving them with little to do but further hone their flying skills — while their white counterparts are shipped out to combat after a mere three months of training. Mistakenly deemed inferior and assigned only second-rate planes and missions, the pilots of Tuskegee have mastered the skies with ease but have not been granted the opportunity to truly spread their wings. Until now.

As the war in Europe continues to take its dire toll on Allied forces, Pentagon brass has no recourse but to reconsider these under-utilized pilots for combat duty. Just as the young Tuskegee men are on the brink of being shut down and shipped back home, Col. A.J. Bullard (Terrence Howard) awards them the ultimate chance to prove their mettle high above. Undaunted by the prospect of providing safe escort to bombers in broad daylight — a mission so dangerous that the RAF has refused it and the white fighter groups have sustained substantial losses — Easy’s pilots at last join the fiery aerial fray. Against all the odds, with something to prove and everything to lose, these intrepid young airmen take to the skies in a heroic endeavor to combat the enemy — and the discrimination that has kept them down for so long.

Wilmington on DVDs: Solitary Man, Crumb, THX-1138, Macgruber and Caravaggio

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

PICK OF THE WEEK: NEW

Solitary Man (Three Stars)
U.S.; 
Brian Koppleman & David Levien, 2010

The thing that fascinates people about a serial seducer like Ben Kalmen (magnificently played by Michael Douglas in A Solitary Man) is his speed of conquest. What could take the average man, even in our liberated society, several months or, at best, weeks to do — sleep with the woman to whom he‘s attracted —  a great serial seducer can knock off in a single night, and maybe one or two more as well. 
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LucasArt Lays Off 80

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

George Lucas’ Video Game Co. Lays Off A Third Of 250-Person Staff

“Mr. Lucas said that to release the original versions on Blu-ray was ‘kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It’s a very, very expensive process to. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version.” Star Wars Gold Mine Coming To Blu-Ray Merchandising: The Next Generation

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

“Mr. Lucas said that to release the original versions on Blu-ray was ‘kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good. You have to go through and do a whole restoration on it, and you have to do that digitally. It’s a very, very expensive process to. So when we did the transfer to digital, we only transferred really the upgraded version.”
Star Wars Gold Mine Coming To Blu-Ray
Plus – Merchandising: The Next Generation