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Moviehole reports Trek budget at 150-160 million...

I don't think anybody here is taking into account HOW MUCH THINGS COST NOW-A-DAYS.

With the cost of oil skyrocketing, everything else has tsken a BIG jump in price also.

It may be that $100-$150 million doesn't go as far as it used too.

Just hauling a complete production company to an off-Lot location, probably costs several times as much as it did even two years ago.

I'll bet we see all movie productions over the next few years cost a whole bunch more, never mind Block-busters.
 
Out Of My Vulcan Mind said:
Well, presuming the budget is around $ 135-140 million, the film would need to make about $ 325-335 million worldwide to be considered a bona fide hit under the current business model. Even adjusted for inflation that's substantially more than any Trek sequel has made before (TMP's adjusted gross is higher, though).

I was expecting a big budget, but I thought it would be around $ 100 mil. So they're certainly rolling the dice big time here. Gotta give them credit for having the balls to do it. Either it'll pay off and Star Trek will be born anew as a major feature film franchise or Trek will go out with a bang. Even if it doesn't work out we'll at least have one truly epic film Star Trek film to enjoy before the franchise's lights are switched off.
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I am very worried about this high spending.IF the film flops we will be filmless for decades and Trek will be dead.

Can we contact Paramount or send a delegation asking them to spend less?

A letter writing campaign to stop them spending more than $80 million max.


A less costly film will make more money and be better as the story as to be better.The ratio will be 3 times.

ROTS was expensive but was terrible,no drama or tension,just cartoonish special effects and the light sabre figh was a clowinsh bugs bunny travesty...it was so goofy and dragged on andon...no drama.

If a thousand geeky trekies wearing geek glasses and in hand knitted woolen sweaters gather outside Paramount we could get extra publicity for the film and make Paramount realize their mistake.

:lol: :lol: :lol:


:guffaw:
 
thumbtack said:
PowderedToastMan said:
fyi moviehole is wrong
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No, it's not.
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If PTM says another website's got it wrong, then they've got it wrong. No one has been more consistently right in their reporting about the development of this movie than trekmovie.com. He tracks down the rumors and gets positive confirmation before publishing anything. Kudos, PTM! I eagerly await the facts about the film's budget.
 
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lets not make a big deal out of this. Yesterday we reported that the budget was still not completely final and that it will likely be in the 125-150 range. I trust my source, I am sure they trust their source...and thats all fine. I just think they are about 20 mil high. They are a fine site and of course none of this is really official and in the end we can both be wrong. Regardless, as stated in our report...this will be the most expensive Trek film ever (even after inflation), but a bit less than Transformers and MI3.

My only concern now is if the film can play well in foreign markets...especially non english speaking ones where (with the exception of German) trek has never done well.
 
PowderedToastMan said:
My only concern now is if the film can play well in foreign markets...especially non english speaking ones where (with the exception of German) trek has never done well.
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Less talking. More things flying around and blowing up.
 
As long as all the dialogue is translated by one gravelly-voiced man who speaks in an emotionless monotone, it'll do great in Poland.

I just read a fascinating article about Polish "lektors."
 
Starship Polaris said:
PowderedToastMan said:
My only concern now is if the film can play well in foreign markets...especially non english speaking ones where (with the exception of German) trek has never done well.
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Less talking. More things flying around and blowing up.
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I was gonna argue with this but then I remembered that I was one of the mouth-breathers who preferred the relatively things flying aroundy and blowing uppy "Doomsday Machine" and "Balance of Terror" to the talk-talk-talk myself to deathy (cf. Roxy Music) "City on the Edge of Forever" so I say "si, senor, muy bueno." :D

Brutal, Strudelly
 
Starship Polaris said:
I prefer "City," but then I speak English. :lol:
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Which explains why you're so down on this project... no, wait-- :confused:

EDIT: Just fucking with you. I know exactly what you mean. ;)
 
I can't believe no one has figured out what this really means - Shatner will be in the flick! :eek: I'd guess $75M is going to him, and the same to Nimoy. FX will be done by some guy with a cell phone camera at the Smithsonian gift shop.
 
FX is by ILM and they don't come cheap anymore ;)

125 - 150 mill sounds about right in this day and age.

Can't wait to see how much hype for this is pushing that cost in that range, hype costs money too after all.

Newspaper ads, TV ads, magazine ads, personal appeerances, Talk shows, ect ect ect, all this stuff adds up after awhile you know.

Let's just hope Paramont promotes the HECK out of this to justify the spending costs they want to toss at it.
 
I think they are spending way too much on this. They are just setting themselves up for disaster. It will end up being a nice shiny black eye for Abrams. After this film goes way over budget, loses a ton of money Trek will find it's way onto the furthest corners of the Paramount back lots and whatever props and memorabilia they have will be promptly sold to compensate for the loss (and to make room for the stuff for movies like superbad II, species 5, and the like). At least we'll still have the books.
 
^ Back off. He said "think" not "know", two different things. He posted what he did as an opinion, proven or unproven, not as a fact.

We don't need to have elitism on the BBS where only those of us who've worked in television or movies, like you and I, have a say.
 
Lord Garth said:
^ Back off. He said "think" not "know", two different things. He posted what he did as an opinion, proven or unproven, not as a fact.

We don't need to have elitism on the BBS where only those of us who've worked in television or movies, like you and I, have a say.
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Could you please contact Paramount and advise them to spend just $80 million?
If they spend too much and it flops we will be trekless for decades.Also a tight low coost films will be better.I understand you have connections with Paramount and Abrams.
 
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