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They are having problems coming up with new Trek ideas.
They should do a movie that's all meta. It'd be about the making of a new Star Trek movie. But this is the twist - the outer movie (with the director, cast, studio, etc.) takes place in an alternate universe that's run by Borg. The movie-within-the-movie takes place in the regular Trek-verse. So it'd be a bunch of Borg making a movie about human and Vulcan Federation folk. It will be a dark comedy....
OK, who's gonna finance me?
As would its sequel, THE MODIFIER.
Dangling into theaters this June!
Heh. William Shatner soundtrack. I love Shatner's album, that one, that was good. It had those songs on it. Yeah.
What in the hell? I was looking at J.J. Abrams's IMDbiography, and I had no idea he'd written so many movies! Taking Care of Business, Regarding Henry, Forever Young, Gone Fishin', Armageddon... all before Felicity, and then he even did Joy Ride. I always thought he appeared out of the ether for Felicity and was making a big jump to movies now.
YET THERE ARE SNAKES ON THE PLANE ANYWAY.
Warner Home Video has begun trial sales in China of a movie DVD priced at just Rmb12 ($1.50), a move likely to anger consumers in developed markets such as Europe and the US, who typically pay $20-$30 for a recently released film on DVD.
The test sales of the modestly packaged edition of the The Aviator mark one of the boldest efforts yet by an international film company – WHV's Chinese joint venture, CAV Warner – to adjust its marketing strategies to the potentially huge but piracy-plagued Chinese DVD market.
The "simple pack" edition of the Oscar-winning epic, which comes in a cardboard folder rather than the standard DVD plastic box, went on sale earlier this month in selected Chinese cities, said Christine Hu, CAV Warner public relations manager.
Not that I really want my DVDs with no extras in a cardboard sleeve, but damn, if this is even a viable option for Warner, we American customers must be getting really ripped off.
The price point probably takes American sales into account. But I see what you mean... if they can make a profit off $1.50, what's the marginal overhead here?
But I see what you mean... if they can make a profit off $1.50, what's the marginal overhead here?I don't know if you can presume they're making a profit. They're probably trying to establish the market first. Short term loss for long term plans seems possible.
You don't have to assume it, but I'm not assuming instead that they're taking a loss.
ETA: taking a loss to provide a product available in the same market for possibly less money.