THX has left the George Lucas empire. The company, known mostly as a movie theater certification powerhouse, has been spun off from Lucasfilm as a privately held entity. The move is expected to allow ...

THX has been with us for 40 years and continues to make its mark on consumer electronics and movie theaters. George Lucas founded THX as a branch of Lucasfilm in 1983, in partnership with Tomlinson ...

The THX logo appearing on screen has become synonymous with the feeling of settling in for a truly cinematic experience. Developed at George Lucas’s Lucasfilm in the early 1980s for the release of ...

In 1971, George Lucas was pushing the theme of societal rebellion against a police state into a science fiction setting. In the original Star Wars, he took some of those THX 1138 themes and jammed ...

San Rafael, Calif. – In a second round of restructuring since its spin-off last year from Lucasfilm, THX Ltd. laid off an unspecified number of employees but will replace some people and create new ...

THX Ltd. is known for many things. Who, for instance, isn’t familiar with the iconic THX Deep Note that plays at the start of any THX(R) Certified performance? Now, the world-class audio and video ...

Here's a little trivia for you: THX, the cinema sound quality certification, was introduced in 1983 by Lucasfilm so every terrible line of dialogue from Return of the Jedi could be heard exactly as ol ...