Lucasfilm Inc. Lucasfilm is a film company founded by George Lucas in 1971 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, which was acquired in 2012. Lucasfilm has a high level of visual effects and sound effects in films, and its subsidiaries include those focusing on visual effects, those focusing on sound effects, etc. The original Lucasfilm subsidiary was acquired by Steve Jobs and Disney. Lucasfilm's most famous film is the Star Wars series.