2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (266+ words) The $3.75 million sum set a new world auction record for a screen-used Star Wars prop, per Dallas-based Heritage. An iconic piece of Star Wars memorabilia smashed predictions and sold for a record-setting sum Heritage Auctions confirmed late Wednesday afternoon that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (349+ words) By Alex Weprin for The Hollywood Reporter In a surprise move, OpenAI will shut down its Sora AI video app, just months after it was first launched. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it,…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago  (291+ words) At a Heritage Auctions sale of Hollywood memorabilia in Dallas on Wednesday, a Star Wars painting sold for $3.88 million, breaking the record for an object associated with the series. The work, a painting by illustrator Tom Jung, served as the…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (267+ words) With the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art inching closer to finally opening next fall, an exodus afflicting the Los Angeles institution’s leadership is continuing, with Pilar Tompkins Rivas, the museum’s chief curator and deputy director of curatorial and collections, having…...

8+ mon, 4+ day ago  (194+ words) The long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles has set its opening date for September 22, 2026. The Lucas Museum has been in the works for over a decade. Its founders, filmmaker George Lucas and Ariel Investments co-CEO and president…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago  (153+ words) Drew Struzan designed instantly recognizable posters for countless Hollywood movies, among them Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Indiana Jones. By Leigh Anne Miller Drew Struzan’s name might not be familiar to the wider art world, but his art certainly is....

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (345+ words) Legendary film director Martin Scorsese will moderate a panel Sunday at New York Comic Con, which opens Thursday at the Javits Center. Legendary film director Martin Scorsese will moderate a panel on Sunday at New York Comic Con, which opens…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (374+ words) Phillips will auction a juvenile Triceratops during its high-profile modern and contemporary art sale on November 18. The fossil comes to the block with a pre-sale estimate between $2.5 million and $3.5 million. Nicknamed “Cera,” this 66-million-year-old specimen, dating to Late Cretaceous period,…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1118+ words) Filmmaker and collector George Lucas previewed the forthcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at Comic-Con 2025. History was made at Comic-Con’s famed Hall H on Sunday as George Lucas made his long-awaited Comic-Con debut. Lucas wasn’t there to discuss…...