Lucasfilm's empire is expanding

October 27, 2005 Comments

Lucasfilm has just opened a 3,715 square meter digital animation studio in Singapore and its first release is going to be a TV adapation of its Clone Wars micro series. Give him a few short years and I'm sure George Lucas will own Asia. That's what he does. He takes over continents.

Lucasfilm extends empire to Singapore [Guardian Unlimited]

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