Did anyone ever find out why this movie was pushed back the only thing I remember on this subject was that Paramount made the decision and not J.J. Abrams.
Why was the movie pushed back to May?
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Money was the main reason given at the time. They thought they could make more with a May release than with a December date.
From back in February:
Also, there was a long writers strike, and things were looking thin for summer blockbusters for all the studios, so ST was seen as a good movie to shift from Christmas to the US summer. I did see messages about that, although Wikipedia currently claims that was never a reason.
Because you touch yourself at night.
Or more accurately, because Abrams touches our childhoods at night.
ILM ran out of leading zeroes for starship registries and had to wait for the factory in China to produce more.
Normally everything makes money at Christmas so I would of thought a December 26th worldwide release date would of gone down well. There is way more competition in the summer though at least STAR TREK is kicking off the summer box office but I fear T-4 could kill it.
IMO - It will turn out to be a good movie but will fall short of its huge budget simply due to the stigma of STAR TREK.
IMO - It will turn out to be a good movie but will fall short of its huge budget simply due to the stigma of STAR TREK.
And here I thought it was because they couldn't smuggle a bootleg copy of the film out to the chinese to sell on DVD the same day it's released in theartres in time for the original 12/26/08 release date.
The movie actually did come out on Christmas Day, 2008, but then the Old Spock came back from the future and, through the power of (most awesome) quantum theory, the movie got pushed back to May of 2009, but in an alternate timeline.
So depending on which timeline you are currently in, the movie will either come out on Christmas Day, 2008, or in May of 2009. Or, alternatively, five minutes ago, tomorrow, 10000 BC, or a fried onion covered in blood.
Apparently, you have to watch some shitty episode of TNG to understand what I am saying.
But that was done intentionally. To leave us wanting more.
(Plus a lot of little boys and girls told Santa that they wanted 'Nemesis' gone by Christmas.)
...so in one of the other infinite number of universes, I will go to see this film on December 25, and it will be the best film ever made...and the "infinite monkeys tapping on typewriters" that wrote it will win the Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
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Dude, if watching TNG were all it took to understand what you're saying I'd understand you a lot better.
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Sam's right. I've already seen it.
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Lord Garth
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It is. Anything that can happen does.
I'm glad it was pushed. I have for years hoped for a summer tentpole Trek film,
was a little disapointed when they announced it for Christmas, now it's all cool again.
was a little disapointed when they announced it for Christmas, now it's all cool again.
I saw it tomorrow!!!!! And it was cool!
(Hey, I look kinda fuzzy in my icon pic...)
And... now you're gone completely.
Captain Robau demanded a little more warm up time before he kicked all of the detractors asses.
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