Lucasfilm setting up studio in Singapore

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"Star Wars" creator Lucasfilm will soon start construction of its first purpose-built overseas production facility in Singapore, the US movie and animation giant said Tuesday.

The eight-storey, 38,000 square-metre (409,000 square-foot) studio complex will be located in a technology hub known as Fusionopolis and contain a data centre, a 100-seat theatre and retail outlets.

Lucasfilm, the hit-making vehicle of director George Lucas, set up operations at rented offices near Changi Airport in 2005 and now has 400 international staff in Singapore.

The new building will be ready for staff by 2012 and will house Lucasfilm Singapore's three local divisions --special effects firm Industrial Light and Magic, game developer Lucasarts and Lucasfilm Animation.

"Our teams on both sides of the world - in the US and in Singapore - continue to thrive," said Micheline Chau, president and chief operating officer of Lucasfilm.

"We're immensely proud of the amazing work that continues to come out of the Singapore studio and we can't think of a better way to celebrate than by giving them a permanent, state-of-the-art, collaborative work environment to call home."

The Singapore team currently produces the animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" as well as the Nintendo DS game "Jedi Alliance."

A fact sheet provided by Lucasfilm said Singapore staff have worked on special effects and animation for Hollywood hits such as the "Transformers" franchise, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Iron Man 2".

Lucasfilm Singapore is also working with "Pirates of the Caribbean" director Gore Verbinski on "Rango", a fully-animated film about a chameleon forced to live his dreams of being a swashbuckling hero in a bandit-infested cowboy town.

The film will be released in 2011, with "Pirates" lead Johnny Depp voicing the main character.

AFP: "Star Wars" maker to build studio in Singapore

Maybe George Lucas and his team never considered the Philippines for the new studio.

[luiecariqtan]

wow ....

[Dion]

This is a great new for us Asians. George Lucas building a film production site in Singapore is awesome. Although this is not located in the Philippines it is still just an hour or two away from our country. I hope he will soon consider making movies with Asian actors.


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awesome.. this is good...

[crossramz]

These just means another boom in the economy of SG and more oppurtunities for asians...

[sharkey360]

A friend of mine from Barangay Sambag asked "Why not Cebu, George Lucas?!"

Words from the same person who strongly believes that Cebu can host the Olympic Games.

[Blackbeard]

A friend of mine from Barangay Sambag asked "Why not Cebu, George Lucas?!"

Words from the same person who strongly believes that Cebu can host the Olympic Games.

I'd like some of what your friend is smoking.

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nice...

[sharkey360]

I'd like some of what your friend is smoking.

Pride. 100% pure pride.

Other wishes from her mind:

1. That every local community dancer born in Cebu will become millionaires by dropping out of school and working full time as dancers in the entertainment industry.

2. That all the record labels (music companies) in New York will all transfer to Cebu

3. That all the Hollywood movie studios will all transfer to Cebu

And so on...

[pinoybb]

If you guys are interested in this kind of work, be prepared to spend many many overnights. Hehe.
Another studio to look out for in SG is Double negative which is a UK based vfx house. They were both recruiting sa Siggraph Asia last year.