Strike has some positive effect on film

[Flake]

Due to the writers strike the movie 'Angels & Demons' a followup to the massive hit 'The DaVinci Code' has been moved from December 2008 to May 2009.

Originally slated for release on Friday 19th, Angels and Demons would have been major competition for Star Trek during Christmas, now with the film having been moved to a later date the big Tom Hanks movie is no longer a threat.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117976189.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

On another note this means the huge Trek fan 'Tom Hanks' is now free to do another movie...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Clearly, God is a Trekkie. :thumbsup:

 

[Brutal Strudel]

One is tempted to quip that the only way this movie can hope to make back its huge budget is if it plays on four screens at an otherwise empty multi-plex.

Would that be cool to say? No? Then one won't say it.

Carry on.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's not like this movie's budget is remarkably huge for a hoped-for blockbuster these days.

It's just a lot for a Trek movie. And Trek movies, of course, have never been blockbusters.

The studio clearly wants to change that. If they don't succeed, who knows what they'll do with the thing?

They're sure not going to try producing these kinds of movies on what used to be considered "reasonable" budgets; such films finish third or fourth on their opening weekends, if that, and wind up losing money.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Direct to DVD? I dunno. I kinda think Trek's been told and needs to fade away or, at the very least, rest for a very long time. But, just as NBC won't cancel the very, very, very tired ER because there's nothing to replace it, so Paramount is eager to keep the ailing but still lucrative Trek franchise limping along, this time with a bigger infusion of green than the one Spock gave Sarek in JtB (see what I did there?). Maybe this movie will change that. Nothing its two writers or director have done thus far give me hope though I admire Abrams loyalty to the WGA.

Commerce is the enemy of art except when it's the friend, that's what I always say.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I can think of ways that Trek could be produced direct-to-DVD or for the limited budgets of shows that run on the SCIFI Channel which would be very satisfactory - to me. Maybe to a few million people, which is all it takes for success on that level.

I imagine the studio thinks that once they choose to go down that road they're just burning off the remnants of whatever value the property still has. Apparently the new folks there have decided that it's worth a shot to try to make Trek the big, big deal that some folks have always believed it could be.

 

[Flake]

The best way for CBS to make some money out of the TV franchise is to get DS9 or Voyager back together for a mini-series or DVD movie. It'll sell well and get good ratings if its on tv first.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

^ Ack! They'd better keep their mitts off DS9. They'd ruin it for sure.

They couldn't do much WORSE than the way VOY ended, so I'm okay with them revisiting that. Anything would be an improvement on Endgame.