Looks like the kraken is about to be released.......
I guess it's time to make some popcorn.
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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I guess it's time to make some popcorn.
In other weather news, Axa-radar (tm) shows a shit storm is brewing. Details as they become available.
I've not heard about this. Do you know who brought it or what it concerns, or where I can go on the internet to get more information about it?
I keep wondering if Axanar hosted its email or books internally...
Terry says Alec retained the original lists that needed to be cleaned up, and to me that sounded legit - if there was no contract to turn over methods of cleaning up lists, or cleaned up lists, then its goodwill as far as I know to give that work to Axanar.
But what about anyone who signed up through Ares Digital? It would be ok I suppose to just flatfile download that info to Axanar, but did it happen? I would imaging Axanar being a client and beta tester hosted on the developing product they do not own. But agreements could change this.
How did the studio asset become business collateral which could be signed over by Alec? Only if Axanar Productions claimed ownership outright, exactly what the critics have been saying.
I keep wondering that. Somewhere I lost track of the current state of it. Was it "sold"? Did it remain property of Axanar Productions and get a set of "investment partners"? I thought they put that money back into the production budget. And its gone? And all the indiegogo? Surely rent and attorney fees couldn't have eaten all that up?
Is it funding the self-contratulatory-fallen-heros-epic-documentary?
Gotta love the:Looks like the kraken is about to be released.......
Alec Peters: "Please be a professional and stop talking about us."
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After the various mud slinging Mr. Peters has engaged in with people like Tony Todd and Christen Gossett. Talk about hypocritical. What a complete and total douchebag.
Was it perhaps that the studios filed against Alec individually as well as against Axanar Productions?
Axanar Productions and Alec Peters were served separately, but it's the same lawsuit. For all intents and purposes, Alex Peters is Axanar Productions. AP=AP.
I swear I remember in the original Axanar blog post when they were served with papers that Alec was served a separate lawsuit, naming himself as the sole defendant.
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Thanks for clearing that up.
Last night, I was catching up on events after being out-of-town for a few days.
I read Terry's threat to Alec and various places talking about it, mostly praising him. I said to myself, "Wait, he's a good guy now?"
No. I remember his attitude before he fell out with Peters. Wonder when Bawden and the others will turn. [/cynic]
Dollars to donuts Peters is hiding/sheltering the $$$.
I presume that Industry Studios (or whatever they have re-branded it this week) refers to the production entity owned by Alec, which has leased the space from a third party and is attempting to profit by sub-leasing that space to other productions -- not the physical space itself. But I could be wrong.
Exactly my thoughts. And I also don't trust this Terry guy. But I don't want to accuse him of mole tactics either.
Oh, yeah, not a good guy. He's still a villain, he's just turned on his former master.
To my jaded eyes some of it appears to be bordering on sycophancy which, I think, teaches us that people will forgive nearly anything if there's a chance of some gossip at the end of it.
I think Alex told people stuff that wasn't true just to get them to do whatever he needed done.There are not a high percentage of people that understood what you could or couldn't do in the Star Trek Sandbox. Now you hear people that questioned Alex at the time, tell that Alec was in close contact or is working on a licensing deal .... so it was perfectly alright to do it.
I finally found "Ares Studios" on Google Maps: 28757 Industry Drive, Valencia, CA 91355
It's the end of a five-segment row-building. OfficeSpace dot com lists it as 15,756 square feet, leased as of July 2015 at $7.08 per square-foot per year, or $111,552 per year, or $9,296 per month. Now, I'm not entirely sure if that 15,756 SqFt is just for the one segment or for the entire row, in which case the numbers would be one-fifth of what's listed.
I cannot find out who actually owns the building, but considering that it's not a stand-alone "warehouse", I doubt that anyone from the Axanar staff bought it to lease back to the "studio". Until now, I wasn't so sure about that ......
It's the end of a five-segment row-building. OfficeSpace dot com lists it as 15,756 square feet, leased as of July 2015 at $7.08 per square-foot per year, or $111,552 per year, or $9,296 per month. Now, I'm not entirely sure if that 15,756 SqFt is just for the one segment or for the entire row, in which case the numbers would be one-fifth of what's listed.
I cannot find out who actually owns the building, but considering that it's not a stand-alone "warehouse", I doubt that anyone from the Axanar staff bought it to lease back to the "studio". Until now, I wasn't so sure about that ......
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I still am stuck on the whole, how does one manage to raise 1.3 million dollars and have none of it left. None left to send out donor rewards, none left to make a production they promised to spend the money on and none left to pay your CT guy for the work he did for you. Every time I think this whole mess can't get worse for Alec and his gang, he says something else dumb and pisses more people off. Which then plunges Axanar deeper in the hole. Honestly, I am glad I was a donor, the entertainment this entire fiasco has given me was well worth my 30 bucks far beyond their "fan film" production would have...
If there's any confirmation to this one claim that they have no money left, it sure seems like they are going to get plenty of press attention over the "where did it all go" question...
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