Today, 5th June marks the birthday of Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm and one of the worlds most successful producers and as such we’d like to tip the hat to the boss and her part in keeping the star of Star Wars in the ascendancy.
Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953)[s an American film producer and current president of Lucasfilm. In 1981, she co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall.
Portrait of film producer Kathleen Kennedy,
Her first film as a producer was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). A decade later, again with Spielberg she produced the Jurassic Park franchise, the first two of which became two of the top ten highest-grossing films of the 1990s. In 1992, she co-founded The Kennedy/Marshall Company with her husband Frank Marshall. On October 30, 2012, she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over $4 billion. She received the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018.
Kennedy has participated in the making of over 60 films that garnered 8 Academy Award nominations and earned over $11 billion worldwide, including three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history. As a producer, she is third behind Kevin Feige and Steven Spielberg in domestic box office receipts, with over $7.5 billion as of 2020.
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Today, 5th June marks the birthday of Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucasfilm and one of the worlds most successful producers and as such we’d like to tip the hat to the boss and her part in keeping the star of Star Wars in the ascendancy.
Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953)[s an American film producer and current president of Lucasfilm. In 1981, she co-founded the production company Amblin Entertainment with Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall.
Portrait of film producer Kathleen Kennedy,
Her first film as a producer was E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). A decade later, again with Spielberg she produced the Jurassic Park franchise, the first two of which became two of the top ten highest-grossing films of the 1990s. In 1992, she co-founded The Kennedy/Marshall Company with her husband Frank Marshall. On October 30, 2012, she became the president of Lucasfilm after The Walt Disney Company acquired the company for over $4 billion. She received the Irving G. Thalberg Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018.
Kennedy has participated in the making of over 60 films that garnered 8 Academy Award nominations and earned over $11 billion worldwide, including three of the highest-grossing films in motion picture history. As a producer, she is third behind Kevin Feige and Steven Spielberg in domestic box office receipts, with over $7.5 billion as of 2020.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Black Series Lucasfilm 50th Anniversary Action Figure: Anakin Skywalker @ ForbiddenPlanet.com
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