As the number of screenings of "Star Wars" continues to increase, the degree of its popularity has stunned various Hollywood companies.

Many people's eyes are green for Lucas's earnings, because people found out that Lucas made a fortune from "Star Wars".

You must know that the first "Star Wars" grossed $460 million in North America and nearly $800 million in the world.

Although Lucas did not get a share of the box office proceeds of the first part, Lucas earned hundreds of millions of dollars from the sales of comics, books, and toys alone, as well as the cost of television rights and licensing.

Compared with the $500,000 director's salary that he gave up, it can be said that Lucas is a typical watermelon who loses sesame seeds, no, it can't be said to be watermelon.

Counting the ownership of the "Star Wars" sequel that Lucas obtained, Lucas simply picked up a cash cow, and all that fell with a light shake was gold ingots.

In the years to come, almost every sequel Lucas can make hundreds of millions of dollars, and it can be said that Lucas can officially rely on the large amount of dollars earned by "Star Wars" to support ILM, a big money-swallowing company.

It was Lucas who invested the profits from Star Wars into ILM, making it grow healthily through continuous technological innovation and exploration.

Eventually, ILM has grown from a studio that used traditional hand-drawn models to create special effects for movies to one of Hollywood's best-known digital effects companies.

It is known for its own invention of design software, not only for Lucas's "Star Wars", "Indiana. Jones makes special effects, but also serves all the films that Hollywood needs.

For example, the special effects in the classic films "Ghost Love", "Forrest Gump", "Tornado", "The Abyss", "Jurassic Park", "Saving the Soldier" and other films are all produced by ILM.

However, before the rise of special effects blockbusters in the 21st century, especially the heroes of Marvel Comics, although ILM did a lot of special effects for movies, ILM has been losing money, and it is a waste of money to develop special effects.

The typical one is to earn more and spend more.

So much so that when ILM ran out of money, its total technical debtor would come to Lucas and say:

"George, we don't have any money now, you can make another "Star Wars" subsidy!"

So Lucas immediately organized people to shoot "Star Wars" to make money to subsidize ILM.

It can be said that it is the support of Lucas, Cameron and others for film technology that makes Hollywood movies far more enjoyable than films from other regions, and lays a technical foundation for Hollywood films to dominate the world.

In his previous life, when Lei Weidong lamented the backwardness of national film technology, he often wondered why there was no such director in our country!

Think of Cameron's efforts to develop new photography and projection techniques on his own in order to shoot "Avatar".

even postponed the release of "Avatar" because the projection equipment was not up to standard.

"George, what are you looking for me to do!" As soon as he entered the door of industrial magic, Spielberg shouted, because the relationship between the two was too familiar.

Spielberg went to industrial magic as many times as he did in his own home, so he didn't have any scruples.

"Steven! There you are! As soon as Spielberg screamed, Lucas came over from the office, but Lucas's eyes were red, as if he hadn't slept for days.

"George, you're staying up late again! Pay attention to your body. Seeing the way Lucas looked, Spielberg knew he was staying up late again!

However, Spielberg has experienced this phenomenon many times, so it is not strange at all.

"Don't worry, Steven, I know my body, I called you here this time to ask for your help!"

Lucas didn't care about Spielberg's worries.

"It's not convenient to talk here, come to my office!"

"Okay, George!" Spielberg was very familiar with Lucas's company, and he didn't let Lucas lead the way.

As soon as he entered the door, Spielberg was taken aback, only to see that Lucas's desk was piled up with a large table of things, and on closer inspection, it seemed to be some scripts.

"George! What's going on, don't tell me it's all a script! ”

"It's really all a script, it was sent by Twentieth Century Fox! It's all scripts in the science fiction genre! Lucas said helplessly.

"Twentieth Century Fox's Do You Want to Send You a Script Here! Don't tell me you're going to help them make another sci-fi movie! You know, you can't keep yourself busy with just Star Wars,"

For his friend Spielberg, it is very clear that after Star Wars, Lucas will not make any more science fiction movies.

"That's not it, I won't be making new sci-fi movies except for Star Wars in the future! But I owe Twentieth Century Fox a favor, and now they want me to help them pick a sci-fi script.

And you also know that although science fiction movies are popular now, there are also a lot of people hitting the streets, and because the investment in science fiction movies is relatively large, they hope that I can check it. Lucas explained the situation.

"Then George, you came to me, and I also hope that I can help you check the gates!" As soon as Lucas explained, Spielberg knew what he was up to.

However, as a good friend, Spielberg still has to help with this.

"There's a lot of sci-fi here. It is estimated that all Hollywood science fiction movies have basically been sent! Looking at the script in front of him, Spielberg muttered to himself.

In fact, when Twentieth Century Fox shouted that he had the money to invest in science fiction movies, it was true that more than half of Hollywood's filmmakers rushed over with scripts.

You must know that Hollywood movies are now at a low ebb in the seventies, and during this period, the eight major film companies, in addition to Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox, still make money.

Disney, MGM, and Paramount are all barely supported by their original film libraries.

Unless the new script is particularly good and people can't put it down, they don't dare to invest, and they are indeed afraid of losing money before.

So this has also led to a lot of grief in Hollywood, and many filmmakers haven't opened for three years.

Those film companies are unwilling to invest, and those big capitalists are also unwilling to invest, so the number of Hollywood films produced every year has plummeted from more than 600 at the peak to more than 200.

And a large part of them are still small-cost investment films, and the chance of being released in theaters is slim, so they can only be thrown to TV stations to screen to collect broadcast fees.

Now because of the popularity of "Star Wars", Hollywood has set off a sci-fi investment fever, and many film companies have put forward their own sci-fi movie plans.

For example, Paramount Pictures first announced that it would bring the sci-fi series "Star Trek" to the screen.

The series was first shown on NBC from 1966 to 1969 and was a popular science fiction drama of its time.

Later, Paramount bought the rights to its film adaptation, but because of the low box office of science fiction movies, it was never filmed.

Now the popularity of "Star Wars" has spurred the craze of science fiction films. So Paramount Pictures moved out the script of "Star Trek" that was sealed in the script library, and then seized the time to recruit people to shoot this movie.

With the sci-fi trend led by "Star Wars" and the loyal audience that "Star Trek" has accumulated on TV screens, this movie immediately attracted the attention of many parties as soon as it started filming, making it a very good start.

Seeing this scene, many film companies in the United States have begun to invest in science fiction movies, or films like the Red Warriors that rebel against evil.

MGM's 007 series has added a science fiction color, and this Roger Moore's 007 "Space City" was a high-tech game in space, moving the spy story to space.

However, "Space City" has also been described as a cartoon-style movie, playing stunts too much. But in any case, the box office of this film set a record of 007. It was Pierce Brosnan who was the highest-grossing 007 film before joining 007 Films.