“My thoughts on [George] Lucas are basically that he’s the devil,” writes Jeff Wells. “Which is to say a very real metaphor for total corruption of the spirit.”

Wells offered up these “thoughts” allegedly in response to Devin Feraci’s interview with Lucas for CHUD (Lucas did a junket for Clone Wars last weekend (our own Kevin Kelly was there and his coverage is forthcoming). Wells doesn’t actually give any indication that he read the interview before comparing George Lucas to Satan, but maybe he should.

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• Chris Holland of B-Side weighs in on that whole Jonathan Marlowe-sparked State of Distribution to-do. There are a lot of fine takeaways here, but here’s an especially good one: “Gear up the marketing machine and pack those [festival] screenings, because the more people who see your film now, the more people who will buy it on DVD later…This sounds obvious and simple, but some filmmakers behave as if exactly the opposite were true. They fret about piracy (you should be so lucky!)…”
• “One of the things that has always nerdily bothered me about Star Wars is all the bespoke weaponry,” John Carney writes. “You know, all those weapons narrowly tailored to the specific environment in which the action is taking place.” Apparently, the latest Clone Wars vid doesn’t seem to make the situation any better.
• Anne Thompson visited the charred wreckage of the Universal Studios backlot and took a few surreptitious pictures.
• Filmmaker/Hollywood Babylon author Kenneth Anger has allegedly “put Satanic death curses” on the authors of the recently-released Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back!, who used the title without permission.