The Lack of "News" About Trek 2017
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...what issues exactly? The films fine. The TV shows fine. There's no flames to fan.
The real issue was more between CBS and Viacom (Paramount's owner). After repeatedly bumping heads together under the same umbrella, they were split up in the hopes that they could work better separately...they do and they don't.
http://variety.com/2016/tv/columns/...-split-leslie-moonves-tom-freston-1201697194/
The lack of news from a big summer movie. Also replacing the director, rewriting the film, terrible first trailer, recent reshoots and recasting. Beyond has been plagued with issues. Luckily the second trailer is much better, but usually when there is such secrecy with a big film, there are issues they are trying to fix.
I don't think anyone was recast, rather a new role was cast for the reshoots.
It is also pretty standard for large movies to have reshoots. Captain America: Civil War had reshoots at the end of January and is about to cross $1 billion at the box office so don't think reshoots a sign of issues.
And Star Wars: Force Awakens was shrouded in complete secrecy and there was not a lot of news from it. Same with Rogue One. Again I do not think there are issues with them.
On the other hand, there were lots of news and rumours about on set issues on Fantasic Four and I do not see anything similar for Star Trek: Beyond. And FF was a film that did not do too well with audiences and critics.
It is also pretty standard for large movies to have reshoots. Captain America: Civil War had reshoots at the end of January and is about to cross $1 billion at the box office so don't think reshoots a sign of issues.
And Star Wars: Force Awakens was shrouded in complete secrecy and there was not a lot of news from it. Same with Rogue One. Again I do not think there are issues with them.
On the other hand, there were lots of news and rumours about on set issues on Fantasic Four and I do not see anything similar for Star Trek: Beyond. And FF was a film that did not do too well with audiences and critics.
Thats not really an issue. Thats par for the course for any business. With a booming film franchise, strong merchandising numbers and new series coming out, I think we can safey say it's all working out fine.
Again, business as usual but with a bit of hyperbole. It's not unusual to sack a writer for handing in a bad story and getting someone else in. The time frames unfortunate, but thats it. It's not unusual in the slightest to do reshoots. 'Terrible' tailer is an opinion not shared with everyone - not an issue. Secrecy in a Bad robot production. How is that uncommon?
The only issues are created or exaggerated. One brand, multiple streams of revenue, everything ticking along, nothing delayed or shelved and money to be made on all fronts. This is a very exciting time to be a Trek fan.
Not entirely. The animosity between CBS and Viacom was among the factors that led to them being split up with Star Trek divided between them. Since then, a particular bone of contention between them has been in the premium cable market, when Paramount took their entire film library--including all of the Trek movies--from the CBS-owned Showtime, but then made it available to everyone else (Showtime can only get a few Paramount movies through the backdoor from a third party). To add insult to injury, Paramount then co-formed EPiX as a rival network to Showtime. While CBS seems to have come out a little better in their divorce, both it and Viacom have lost things they have been struggling to rebuild after their separation, with not a great deal of success. Trek remains a divided house with its TV and movie divisions owned by separate companies with separate plans. Any sense of it "all working out fine" isn't entirely accurate given that they were once one. Any kind of cooperation between them may be more to protect themselves than anything else, IMO.
Trek is definitely a decent film franchise, but it's hardly a booming one compared to other film franchises today that have made as much (if not more) with much fewer films. And its merchandising is only strong in regards to "prime Trek" stuff really. Merchandising for "Abramsverse" stuff has actually been more on the weak side since 2010, with some merchandising licenses cancelled or not even pursued (go to your local department store, and you'll be hard-pressed to find any nuTrek merchandise there).
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