STAR WARS

Movie fans are enjoying the new Star Wars movie, "Attack of the Clones." It has earned more than 250 million dollars since its release five weeks ago.

The movie is the fifth in a series written and directed by George Lucas. They tell a continuing story about a young man named Anakin Skywalker in an imaginary galaxy of planets. Shirley Griffith has more.

In "Attack of the Clones," a group of separatists wants independence from a government called The Republic. The Republic has prepared an army of biologically engineered men called clones. A civil war begins between the separatists’army of mechanical men and the Republic’s clones.

At the same time, Anakin Skywalker is training to become a special fighter called a Jedi knight.