'Dune' Director Denis Villeneuve to Direct New Bond as Amazon Takes Creative Control

George Lucas personally financed the $115M budget for Star Wars: Episode I (1999). This unprecedented financial move gave him total creative control and allowed him to keep the lion's share of the film’s massive $1.027B global gross.

George Lucas was so worried about "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) being a failure that he self-funded the entire movie. He took out a massive bank loan against his own property to maintain total creative control from the studios.

Meanwhile, at the CBC: breathlessly promoting Hulu's The Testaments like it's the second coming of Canadian cultureSame network that lectures us about protecting 'Canadian voices' while giving free airtime to an American production.Quick reminder why it flunks CRTC CanCon rules:-Produced for Hulu (Disney-owned, USA) with a U.S. showrunner and mostly American exec producers.-Controlling copyright and creative control? South of the border.-Filmed in Ontario with some Canadian crew/actors and based

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