Comments on: Abrams To Focus On Paramount Until New Trek Released – CBS Bringing Stewart Show To US

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:48:21 +0000

I believe it was a mistake for Paramount/Viacom to take the stance they did with Spielberg. Almost every single one of his films end up turning a nice profit regardless of how they are received critically. While I have faith that Star Trek will be a huge success for Paramount and J.J. Abrams, losing Spielberg would be big. He has two additional films in pre-production while he is working on Indy 4 and Paramount could be losing a bit of cash because of it. Spielberg will never have an issue finding a studio to work for the rest of his career, he’s just been too successful. Abrams again, is still too untested in the movie business.

Whether or not the issue was Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD seems rather minor. I think Paramount has made a huge mistake releasing on one format. Both formats may end up losing out in the end, so it seems to be a non-issue. Spielberg would be just as happy to release upcoming projects with Universal as he did throughout the bulk of his career. We shall see what happens.

By: Tu Serie Favorita » LOS PROYECTOS DE J.J. ABRAMS

Tu Serie Favorita » LOS PROYECTOS DE J.J. ABRAMS — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:00:36 +0000

[...] Aquí un articulo de TrekMovie.com sobre los futuros proyectos de Abrams. [...]

By: Harry Ballz

Harry Ballz — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:58:33 +0000

What do you get when you cross a Horta with a Mugatu?

Answer: (at this point I wish I knew how to post a picture of my ex-girlfriend!)
Nah, on second thought, that’s doing the Horta a disservice!

By: Starscream

Starscream — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:08:39 +0000

It may have something to do with that Spielberg is against Paramount only releasing HD-DVD and not Blu-ray.

Spielberg is a Blu-ray supporter. I read some were that the HD-DVD deal did not include Spielberg directed movies which would be released on Blu-ray.

By: Lord Garth Formerly of Izar

Lord Garth Formerly of Izar — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:02:41 +0000

I created a monster(s)… Yet i love it. Mugatu update coming soon

By: CmdrR.

CmdrR. — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:28:02 +0000

” the new Star Trek film at Paramount “is going to become [Abrams] life” for the next 15 months”

I never doubted this. I hope that in the future he somehow avoids spreading himself too thin, like, say Jerry Bruckheimer. A lot of those projects — A LOT OF THOSE PROJECTS — seem unpolished. Sure, he’s making literally billions for the studio. But, don’t you want to have some really fine movies to point at in your old age?

(and for Bruckheimer fans, I only pick on him because it’s incredibly doubtful my criticisms will stop him from humping supermodels on piles of cash)

By: Heywood Jablome

Heywood Jablome — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:04:23 +0000

Dennis you’re right, no one in their right mind would relegate Spielberg to the b-list anytime soon. It just seemed like the wording was suggestive of Paramount thinking maybe they WERE too reliant on Dreamworks, and needed to vocalize the idea that they weren’t. Almost as if to say “Spielberg’s not the only ace we got up our sleeve! Now we got Abrams!”

The jist of the article was that Viacom was “preparing for a future without them” (Spielberg and Geffen). Looks a lot to me like JJ will be expected to deliver bigtime, and Dreamworks is a tough act to follow. But I think he can pull it off. If Trek XI is a big hit, he’ll be one step ahead of the game already by knocking a Star Trek movie out of the park, something that hasn’t happened in quite a while…

Jackie how dare you insult my Klingon contractor’s work and materials! I’ll have you know that rotten Horta also made off with most of the prescription painkillers in my medicine cabinet and polished off my vodka. I’ll see you and BOTH of your “clients”at the Klingon Tribunal. Bring your universal translator.

By: Jackie Chiles-Mugatu's Lawyer

Jackie Chiles-Mugatu's Lawyer — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:57:26 +0000

Xai:
“It makes all the posters look immature.”

Undignified! Generalizing! Litigation is forthcoming you doo-doo head. Calling a man of letters immature.

Is it quite clear I need to find something productive to do?

By: Xai

Xai — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:44:16 +0000

#1
Do we have to announce “first” every time? It makes all the posters look immature.

I do look forward to seeing the Eleventh Hour. Could be a lot of fun.

By: Dennis Bailey

Dennis Bailey — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:36:57 +0000

#7:”Hmmm… interesting to note that Paramount is “not reliant on the Dreamworks team.” Was that Spielberg just getting pushed into second place?”

No.

What it refers to is that under Grey, Paramount didn’t develop much of a production slate of its own. When the studio acquired Dreamworks, Grey’s team tended to try to take credit for much of Dreamworks’ already-in-development own production schedule – basically, Paramount would have had few decent releases during the last year or so without Dreamworks. This was, needless to say, another thing for the Dreamworks folks to resent.

In that sense, Paramount had become overly “dependent” on Dreamworks. The fact that Par now has a decent development and production slate of non-Dreamworks films isn’t a relegation of Spielberg “getting pushed into second place” (no one with a brain will be doing that anytime soon) but just the studio recovering from a really fallow period.