Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC is an American film and television production company founded by filmmaker George Lucas in 1971 in San Rafael, California, and later moved to San Francisco in 2005. It is best known for creating and producing the
Star Wars and
Indiana Jones franchises, as well as its leadership in developing special effects, sound, and computer animation for films. Since 2012, Lucasfilm has been a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which are both ultimately owned by the Walt Disney Company, who also owns former Lucasfilm subsidiary Pixar.