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Title: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 13, 2008, 10:45:51 PM
May 2009.  Frontloaded trainwreck confirmed. :lol
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: TVC15 on February 13, 2008, 10:51:19 PM
"The film will simply be called Star Trek and will be released on December 26, 2008 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, and May 8, 2009 in the United States."

WTF?  What's with the dates?
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 13, 2008, 10:52:44 PM
what the fuck :lol
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Eric P on February 13, 2008, 10:54:27 PM
that's a shame

i was looking forward to this
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 13, 2008, 10:55:17 PM
Foriegn markets don't matter too much, because Paramount is not going to get back their losses from foriegn gross.  The film is too expensive to worry about releasing it in December to a lukewarm reception and risk potentially franchise-killing box office returns.  This way if it's released in May, even if it's as awful as it seems, Paramount can dump enough marketing into it that the frontloaded ticket sales will make 'em bank.

And that's the bottom line.  Mediocre movies do mediocre business during winter.  But you can make money off of anything released in MAy for the first weekend if you dump enough marketing into it.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 13, 2008, 10:56:21 PM
How much longer is Gay Boy banned for?
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 13, 2008, 10:56:57 PM
Good
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 13, 2008, 10:57:02 PM
Until he is dead.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 13, 2008, 11:01:25 PM
He didn't do anything though. Synbios fabricated the white thing
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Flannel Boy on February 13, 2008, 11:02:42 PM
He didn't do anything though. Synbios fabricated the white thing
???
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 13, 2008, 11:02:55 PM
This is like Clemens/McNamee, but on a message board. Who cares who did what in what specific incident.  They're both scum.  Good riddance to both.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 13, 2008, 11:03:56 PM
This is like Clemens/McNamee, but on a message board. Who cares who did what in what specific incident.  They're both scum.  Good riddance to both.

And PD is acting like a Republican!
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 13, 2008, 11:05:21 PM
This is like Clemens/McNamee, but on a message board. Who cares who did what in what specific incident.  They're both scum.  Good riddance to both.

And PD is acting like a Republican!

I am?

I told Cheebs to lay off the antics/gimmicks unless he had something epic, but he didn't listen. So I guess it's still his fault when all is said and done. But still, it's a shame Synbios got the last laugh
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: bud on February 14, 2008, 11:03:47 AM
when was cheebs banned? what happened?

star trek, lol.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Tauntaun on February 14, 2008, 11:12:01 AM
when was cheebs banned? what happened?

star trek, lol.

 :o  BUUUUUUUUUD! :hyper

 :-*
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 14, 2008, 11:15:13 AM
star wreck, lol
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Bloodwake on February 14, 2008, 02:54:01 PM
Star Trek is going to be an epic fail anyways.

Honestly if ANYTHING comes out around then in the summertime, it's going to tank. Did Paramount forget about whenever Nemesis came out and it got beat the first weekend by Maid in fucking Manhattan? And that was in the winter!

The movie's going to suck, and it's going to make no money.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: TVC15 on February 14, 2008, 03:11:46 PM
Foriegn markets don't matter too much, because Paramount is not going to get back their losses from foriegn gross.  The film is too expensive to worry about releasing it in December to a lukewarm reception and risk potentially franchise-killing box office returns.  This way if it's released in May, even if it's as awful as it seems, Paramount can dump enough marketing into it that the frontloaded ticket sales will make 'em bank.

And that's the bottom line.  Mediocre movies do mediocre business during winter.  But you can make money off of anything released in MAy for the first weekend if you dump enough marketing into it.

But what with how loud the MPAA shouts that piracy is killing the industry, they have to realize that releasing it in the most important market a half year after it hits the boonies will give pirates time to get pristine copies.   So what, are they going to release it in May, and when it bombs after week one say something like "PIRACY KILLED THIS MOVIE!!!!"  It's like they are making excuses already.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Ichirou on February 14, 2008, 07:57:44 PM
I would say maybe it's being delayed for re-shoots or script re-writes or something (since I hear Abrams was unhappy with the original script and wanted to make changes while he was shooting but couldn't because of the strike), but the fact that it's being released overseas in December but delayed in the US till May makes me think it really is that big of a stinker.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 14, 2008, 08:00:59 PM
Gay Boy am freaking out  :lol
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Ichirou on February 14, 2008, 08:02:40 PM
Why is this that big of a surprise, though?  There hasn't been a good Star Trek movie in years.  Even First Contact wasn't THAT GREAT...it was just that it looked better than it actually was when compared to Generations and Insurrection.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: MrAngryFace on February 14, 2008, 08:09:46 PM
Looks like china is caught up in its own Star Trek episode anyway:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22310219/

China's population is aging rapidly
Quote
China's rapidly aging population could wipe out the country's low-cost labor advantage within the next few decades and stifle economic growth, state media said Tuesday.
Title: Re: GAY BOY AM CRYING: Star Trek delayed to 2009.
Post by: Ichirou on February 14, 2008, 08:10:16 PM
America wins.  Again.