Welcome to Star Wars
This is an epic space opera franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was originally released on May 25, 1977 by 20th Century Fox. This movie is a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, spawning two immediate sequels, released at three-year intervals. The sixteen years after the release of the trilogy's final film, the first in a new prequel trilogy of films was released, again released at three-year intervals, with the final film released on May 19, 2005.

In 2008, the overall box office revenue generated by the six Star Wars films has totalled approximately $4.3 billion. It is making the third-highest grossing film series,behind only the James Bond and Harry Potter films.

In 2008, Star Wars: The Clone Wars was released to theaters as the first ever worldwide theatrical Star Wars film outside of the main trilogies. It was the franchise's first animated film, and was intended as an introduction to the Expanded Universe series of the same name, a 3D CGI animated series based on a 2003 animated 2D series, also of the same name.

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