"How to Succeed in the Movie Business, Without Even Trying"
(With profoundest apologies to one of my favorite musicals)
CBS/Paramount sues to stop Axanar
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(With profoundest apologies to one of my favorite musicals)
Lord Foot in Mouth
thank you !
Let's Forget Its-your Money
The Music Man, too, yes?"How to Succeed in the Movie Business, Without Even Trying"
(With profoundest apologies to one of my favorite musicals)
Heck, I love capitalizing, started my own company 29 years ago and nearly 43 years in this line of work. So that's like 14 years in the university of hard knocks
Delivering a product and then getting paid is capitalism, working with other peoples money is an investment and taking the money & run is a con mans game.
Professor Harry Garth Hill?
I was thinking The Producers
Cuz he doesn't know the territory!
@muCephi, did you listen to that recent trekyards interview with AP? I don't blame you if you didn't, it''s filled AP grandstanding while being treated as the second coming of Garth. I listened to it and every explanation AP had regarding his behavior, the money, and the lawsuit is .... If you're a true Axanar fan (cash cow donor) it doesn't matter. Seriously, that's his go-to pat answer.
I luved it You nailed bunches of those 'special' things too. "Mommy lets me", "We're the people who haven't achieved anything", "(you know who I mean)", "I could do with my own studio to rent out", "I would really like to run around with a MacBook & iPhone I haven't paid for & fly to cool places to do my con(vention)s". And all those other points you captured so well!
This was terrific! Big kudos to ya.
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I doubt even that would dissuade the faithful from their belief that Peters can do no wrong. I really think that any item contained within those documents that would appear suspect to us his supporters would happily accept as necessary if he told them it was.
I see the latest controversy is over what actually was funded from the Indiegogo with Alec now claiming only a third could be made, contradicting their earlier stance that they would make the first half (of course that all should've covered the now 2x15 minutes anyway).
It's interesting as I can remember from their post-Indiegogo podcast them discussing the options after it had clearly underperformed. My reading was it was very much RMB pushing to make the first half with what they'd raised (the right call in my opinion) whereas Alec seemed less convinced.
Of course given public statements that the money's all gone anyway I wonder why the change in narrative. Surely "we were poised to shoot half the film before the lawsuit" is better than somehow only being set for a third of the feature?
It's interesting as I can remember from their post-Indiegogo podcast them discussing the options after it had clearly underperformed. My reading was it was very much RMB pushing to make the first half with what they'd raised (the right call in my opinion) whereas Alec seemed less convinced.
Of course given public statements that the money's all gone anyway I wonder why the change in narrative. Surely "we were poised to shoot half the film before the lawsuit" is better than somehow only being set for a third of the feature?
"What is great is that Axanar is now a piece of Star Trek history. It is famous (some would say infamous!) and Richard Hatch’s Kharn the Undying is seen by many as one of the great Klingons in Star Trek."
http://www.axanarproductions.com/captains-log-feb-12th-2017/
http://www.axanarproductions.com/captains-log-feb-12th-2017/
Pretty good since his only filmed appearance is in 'Prelude'
Not yet. I'm thinking he can try to get Trek turf out of Garth until the cows come home, but everyone is gonna get tired of it pretty quick, its self limiting. Yea, Garth again, whatever.
When there is a lot of crap just beneath the veneer or respectability that true believers hold, things can go south really quickly because of one too many outrages. If for example the production of actual Axanar content is now subject to more excuses, it could precipitate the change. If some govt agencies came after him, this could bring a lot of support down -- look at the reputation of tax fraud televangelists for example. They may survive over time, but only after they lose their vehicle and confess their sins.
Who can contradict them? But still, the lawsuit wiped out the budget? Because they had to spend it on rent? Doesn't follow. They were out of money in early 2016. They spent it on BUILDING the studio, not renting it. Thats material assets directly owned by Alec personally, and it used up the budget, not the rent in 2016 during the lawsuit.
So Alec shows his priorities. He wanted his *prospective* project and thus his name to be part of Trek history. *That's* what's great about Axanar. *Not* that donors got their film.
And I agree, given Mr. Hatch didn't get to act enough to establish the character as a "great" element of Trek, saying this is really just trading on Mr. Hatch's name to inflate the importance of Axanar.
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