What? New stories and a few never-before-seen images from the @ilmvfx.bsky.social archives during the making of “The Goonies”? YES PLEASE. My latest for ILM.com. www.ilm.com/goonies-40-a... #ILM50

The fine folks at Regal Robot are giving away a copy of Return of the Jedi: A Visual Archive! Click here for more info: www.facebook.com/groups/regal...

I'm so excited to share my latest ILM.com article, as it highlights Industrial Light & Magic's contributions to The Fantastic Four: First Steps! I spoke with ILM's Daniele Bigi, who offered some phenomenal insights into the film's visual effects. www.ilm.com/fantastic-fo...

The Rebel Hideout is finally revealed! Such a cool story! www.ilm.com/rebel-hideou...

Check out the first in a new series of “Skysound at 50” articles with a Lucas Seastrom chatting with Skywalker Sound general manager Josh Lowden. (This is a fun series with lots more coming over the next few months!) Read here: medium.com/@SkywalkerSo...

Folks reasonably assume footage from behind-the-scenes featurettes are "truth", but it is now standard practice for studios to alter footage from "making-of" videos. (These gray screens are actually blue screens on the set of "Superman" (2025).)

This was fun! Thanks for having me!

My second #StarWars short story, "The Failing of the Light," is now available in Star Wars Insider #233! Today, you get to meet Jesha Cour and learn about her Path to discover the Light of the Jedi…

Happy book birthday, @kristinbaver.bsky.social!

Happy birthday to the Star Wars Lady, AKA @kristinbaver.bsky.social!

Want to see "The Long Walk" early? Our Stephen King show THE KINGCAST is hosting a free screening in Los Angeles on Tuesday! Screenwriter JT Mollner will join us, plus other surprises. RSVP here: bit.ly/kingcastscre.... All welcome. First come, first served. So ... run, don't walk.🚶🏃‍♂️🚶‍♂️🚶

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I chatted with the ILM team that developed the TIE Avenger! As a starship nerd, I'm very excited to share this, and I'm so grateful to the artists for their time and to my ILM.com colleagues for their support. www.ilm.com/andor-star-w...

The circle is now complete! If you weren’t able to catch George Lucas’ first San Diego Comic-Con appearance to preview the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art alongside Doug Chiang and Guillermo del Toro, we’ve got you covered. Check it out at ILM.com: www.ilm.com/george-lucas...

Two cons, two coasts, and a ton of cool people along the way. Always grateful for the adventures!

Just three legends hanging with 6,500 friends. #SDCC

GWL is in the house! #sdcc

Thanks for coming by and great seeing you!

SDCC friends! Come hang today for some news on new Star Wars book projects from Random House Worlds!

See you at San Diego Comic Con!

We’ll be talking about this for sure! And we’ll miss you!

Join us at 1PM Friday in Room 7AB for the Star Wars books Random House Worlds panel! New reveals and a few surprises! With @charlessoule.bsky.social @darthinternous.bsky.social, Gabby Munoz and @marcthompsonvo.bsky.social! (And me!)

Ran into an old friend at the ballpark tonight…

Heads up #SDCC friends! Incoming NEW Star Wars book projects!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the sound design GOAT and longest-tenured employee of Sprocket Systems & Skywalker Sound, Ben Burtt! Here's some of a chat we had once where Ben describes recording iconic sounds at Skywalker Ranch for 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'. WATCH HERE: shorturl.at/JSDd7

Man, nobody writes a review like Walter. 👏👏👏

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It's the first Beaumont Kin Day! A year ago today 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire' was published in the UK (and on the 7th in the US) and readers got the chance to discover just how important Beaumont was to the book he had 'written'. It was a secret we'd carefully guarded.

Blowing up… uh… “The Kid” this 4th of July just seems wrong…

This is what’s on CNN right now, an hour after Republicans passed a bill stripping healthcare from 17 million Americans, gutting food assistance to the tune of $300 billion, and exploding the deficit by $4 trillion.

Summer fashion.

A current look at the former San Rafael, CA home of Industrial Light & Magic, Kerner Optical, and 32Ten Studios. Still vacant since closing in 2023. And I’m told the buildings are in pretty rough shape inside after years of wear and tear. Heck of a fixer upper opportunity, though!

Happy 99th birthday Mel Brooks! On the historic Fox Studios Lot in LA there’s a mural on Stage 5 honoring his 1974 classic “Young Frankenstein”. (Inside is where they built the castle set.) The EGOT legend is still going strong and will return in “Spaceballs” 2! May the Schwartz be with you!

Sometimes you get a sign that you’ve raised ‘em right. 😂

All hail the updated Star Wars Galaxy Map! I’m so happy. Jason and team poured so much love and hard work into this. I have the Celebration 2022 version created to promote DK’s ‘Timelines’, and now that I’m on a new project, this beauty is always close by and referenced FREQUENTLY. THANKS, JF!

Fun new BTS reel showcasing some of ILM’s visual effects work on “Andor”. Watch it here: youtu.be/vCckxCitIC0?...

Finally able to catch my breath and start sharing some pics of a galactic time at @ranchoobiwan.bsky.social for the Summer Social FUNdraiser! 😍 #RanchoObiWan @claytonsandell.com @hollyfrey.bsky.social

“It is not unpatriotic to question the government. It is unpatriotic not to.” - JACK McWETHY Revisiting a 2003 commencement speech by someone who was very important to me, and wishing he was still here to help navigate trying times.

“Nobody’s seen Pablo for HOURS…”

Highway 101 today just north of San Francisco, CA.

Happy 44th birthday to ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. Want to celebrate with a clip of Indiana Jones beating the crap out of some Nazis?

Today is already looking up.

Mon Mothma's Wedding Death-Dance is The Song of Summer. How "Niamos! (Chandrilian Club Mix)"🎶 from #Andor went from a moment of bleak catharsis to a social media phenomenon. It's now growing far beyond the #StarWars fandom.

"Severance" season two has around 3500 digital visual effects shots. The Invisible Visual Effects Secrets of ‘Severance’ with ILM’s Eric Leven, by @claytonsandell.com www.ilm.com/severance-er...

The answer is ‘Severance’! 3,500 VFX shots vs. 3,200 on ‘Skeleton Crew’. (But with a lower average, because ‘Severance’ has two more episodes.) Today for ILM, I chat with production visual effects supervisor Eric Leven on his five favorite VFX sequences. Read here: www.ilm.com/severance-er...

Question: Which show do you think has the highest total number of visual effects shots? Answer in the comments!

Please send this to your influencer friend who does TikToks about moviemaking but doesn't really know how movies are made. (And watch Jonas Ussing's other "No CGI" videos too. They're brilliant.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hniW...

Taungsdays, amirite?

Sundance and Colorado officials say red state/blue state politics played no role in choosing Boulder as its new home. But as finalists Ohio and Utah were busy banning protections for LGBTQ people, Boulder was taking Sundance visitors to Chautauqua for "forest bathing." For @denverpost.com

The great Tom Hiddleston with the great Anthony Breznican! @brezwrites.bsky.social @vanityfair.com