CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar 2 - Electric Boogaloo-Fanboys gone WILD-too many hyphens
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I'm not sure I want to watch AP trying to act like a motorcycle guy.
:They actually did a nice job with the place.
http://thefasthouse.com/the-scene/a...open-house-cold-brews-hot-dogs-and-good-times
The sad thing is the amount of donor money that is just... gone now with nothing to show for it.
yeah, they just had to fix a wall that some idiot environmentalist that was in there before had painted (RIP earth's largest green screen).
also i'm sure they wondered what all the plywood with those holes in it was good for and why you would need a transporter room when you can simply use the existing loading bay or parking lot for your van.
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I have to wonder exactly how Alec is going to play this. On one hand, he’s saying he’s going to flake on his legal agreement with CBS, in which case I’d hope they squash him, otherwise they end up looking toothless.
On the other I imagine it’ll end up like the Industry Studios Indiegogo, where he runs a campaign that’s totally not at all for Axanar, but really we all know that’s where donors will *think* the money’s going. That way he’s staying true to the word of the agreement, if not the spirit.
Of course in that instance, he can raise the money, not spend it on the money and actually be fullfilling the terms of the fundraising. So that’s something.
On the other I imagine it’ll end up like the Industry Studios Indiegogo, where he runs a campaign that’s totally not at all for Axanar, but really we all know that’s where donors will *think* the money’s going. That way he’s staying true to the word of the agreement, if not the spirit.
Of course in that instance, he can raise the money, not spend it on the money and actually be fullfilling the terms of the fundraising. So that’s something.
Ah, but the question was, " ... another round of Kickstarter/crowdsourced funding for Axanar fans?"never tell alec what he can or cannot do:
AP never says a word about funds for the film. That's a con man at work, right there. Let the suckers believe what they want and never tell them different.
WHERE'S THE MOVIE, ALEC?
well there really is only one, right. at this point i won't even try to predict what's gonna happen. no, fuck that, here's what's going to go down. it's either:
- lane-campain to pay the rent for the axanararesvalkyrieindustryrocketworxowcstudiowarehousesoundstage
- failed campain
- then nobody says anything for 3-6 months
- image repair campaign and probably studio move
- repeat.
or:
- straight up campaign
- CBS steps in and finally there's a sorry, can't complete project
- the end
what do your crystal balls say?
I was just thinking, they should have found some way to get some of the money from the sale back to the crowdfunding backers. It's kind of shitty that they got all that money for the place, and then went and sold it off.
Unbelievable. I wonder how he's going to get around the deal with CBS? Find some kind of phrasing that keeps them just barely on the right side of it, or just play it straight and hope CBS let's it slide?never tell alec what he can or cannot do
This. Because it keeps the dream alive.
Alec doesn't want to give up or make the movie, because then the adulation (and criticism) will come to an end.
I thought he owned the building. I thought that was all of big kickstarter was for, so he could buy the studio.
I wonder if he bothered getting city permits, let alone permission from the landlord, to make all those "improvements" to the building. I mean, like the overhead light system they hung from the ceiling. California has strict regulations and inspections for things like that, being it's an earthquake zone.
There wasn't enough money fro that. When the property sold in 2008, it was around 2.2M. He had a 3 year lease IIRC.
So even if all of Alec's grandiose plans had worked and he spent $1M+ to change a warehouse into a soundstage and it had worked and big productions were lining up to use the space, his landlord could have said "thanks for all the improvements to the property. I'm not renewing your lease".
When he vacated he had around 8 months left on the lease so there is no guarantee he'd still be in that property today.
Would he have? I don't know. But a sane person doesn't put himself in that situation. To justify the $1M or so in improvements he would need to at least make that much back in profit BEFORE the end of the lease.
Reminds me an episode of hotel impossible I saw not too long ago where the owner of the hotel didn't own the land it was on and had something like a 15 year lease on the land. Hotel needed a lot of work and they were having to crunch the numbers to see if it even made sense running calculations like "If you put $5M in renovations into the hotel, you;d need to increase revenue by this much every year just to beak even over that 15 year time span and then determine if that is realistic or not". That is how those kind of things are done in the real world.
Unfortunately, Alec doesn't live in the real world.