Comments on: Paramount Finance Deal Falls Through – No Effect On Trek

By: me

me — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:08:51 +0000

Outch, the name of the bank is Deutsche Bank and not Deutsche.
Deutsche just means German, an adjective is not a full name.

I think this will be more a problem for small productions, who won’t be done when they can’t finance them. However the big productions – as Star Trek seems to be seen by Paramount these days – who already reached a critical stadium of post production will be made, because they expect the big money from these big blockbusters.

By: krikzil

krikzil — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:01:03 +0000

I subscribe to FT Times so that’s where I read it. (Drudge tries too hard to make everything sensational so I never read his dreck.) I imagine we will see a lot of belt tightening by the studios with the credit crunch. Sadly, that probably means more formulaic dreck, less risk on projects that aren’t mainstream, guaranteed hits.

By: Captain Dunsel

Captain Dunsel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:24:40 +0000

#20
“Affect is a verb not a noun, title should read No Effect on Trek.”

… Well, not always….

I hope a slight smile will not effect a betrayal of my amused affect when I point out that an insufficient consideration of etymology can adversly affect the intended effect of the sentence under consideration.

BTW, you’re right – It SHOULD be “effect” in the case of the headline…

Affectionately, Captain Dunsel

Per Webster:
Effect – Verb (transitive) – To cause to come into being.
Affect – Noun – The conscious subjective aspect of an emotion considered apart from bodily changes
Affect – Verb (transitive) – To produce an effect upon
Effect – Noun – Something that inevitably follows an antecedent (as a cause or agent)

By: Duncan MacLeod

Duncan MacLeod — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:58:12 +0000

Other less good trek sites are reporting it like drudge does. Why cant people get their facts right

By: 7 of 5

7 of 5 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:37:56 +0000

Drudge never gets it right; it’s the way he tinkers with the facts that keeps him in business, much the way Faux Noise does.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:30:11 +0000

Let’s look at the economy overall. Yesterday Anheuser Busch accepted a massive buyout by Inbev. Some American staples just can’t make it on their own anymore, and we shouldn’t be surprised. It’s not the end of the world. Paramount will secure funding from someone else. They are becoming a major player studio again, even with the Dreamworks debacle and the fact that they simply distributed Ironman rather than producing it. Paramount still has their name in so much. Star Trek is their real key, if it bows well next year, they’ll be fine, despite the loss of funding to the studio.

By: cbowyer

cbowyer — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:18:33 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me, I believe Deustch Bank had a huge exposure to those sub-prime mortgages. I’m sure they’re not as flush as they used to be.

ST:TMP’s budget of 40 million was the highest ever for a movie at the time but they didn’t spend it all on the movie. A sizable chunk of the budget paid for other stuff mostly to do with the shelved second tv series. I can’t remmeber all the details but they discuss it briefly in the audio commentary of the Director’s cut DVD for ST:TMP.

By: Teleportation Girl

Teleportation Girl — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:56:04 +0000

Rob Moore backs that up, telling Variety the deal falling through “won’t affect our current or long-term production slate.”

Notice the word “current”. There are hopes that if ST does well, three more pictures will be made after that. i would say that this effects the likelihood of those pictures being put into production, but not the current one.

By: DaveM

DaveM — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:03:56 +0000

#10 – Iron Man was a MARVEL picture that was distributed by Paramount. Paramount did not finance it. They just get a small distribution fee.

By: JL

JL — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:55:00 +0000

#25

“ST:TMP itself was not as highly budgeted as it would at first appear.”

Flat-out not true. $40 million at that time was the higest budget ever for a movie. I remember reading that in an article at one point.