Ryujin
Legend
Full disclosure: I am a backer of the "Star Trek: Axanar" crowdfunding projects.
This has been going back and forth for a while now, but CBS has finally gone forward with an attempt to get an injunction against the producers of the crowdfunded Star Trek movie "Star Trek: Axanar." Until now CBS has tolerated fan films, as long as they didn't make a profit. Alec Peters, one of the producers who also plays Garth of Izar in the movie, was told as much in meetings with CBS execs. I guess as long as your project effectively acts as advertising for their property it's OK, but you can't be TOO successful. Doing this production caught the imagination of a lot of industry professionals who are working for significantly less than usual, are putting aside more lucrative work, or are working for nothing in order to see it be made.
Yes, I support a creator/producer being able to exert creative creative control over his intellectual property. This is a bit different, though, as there has been a long standing explicit permission for not-for-profit productions. These days a production without much SFX and reasonable production values runs a minimum of around $100K per hour of the final product, and that's not at Hollywood rates. So is it the fact that they managed to get a couple of million dollars in support that makes the difference? Is it that it's actual higher level Hollywood professionals who have made this their passion project?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/th...Lewis&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews
This has been going back and forth for a while now, but CBS has finally gone forward with an attempt to get an injunction against the producers of the crowdfunded Star Trek movie "Star Trek: Axanar." Until now CBS has tolerated fan films, as long as they didn't make a profit. Alec Peters, one of the producers who also plays Garth of Izar in the movie, was told as much in meetings with CBS execs. I guess as long as your project effectively acts as advertising for their property it's OK, but you can't be TOO successful. Doing this production caught the imagination of a lot of industry professionals who are working for significantly less than usual, are putting aside more lucrative work, or are working for nothing in order to see it be made.
Yes, I support a creator/producer being able to exert creative creative control over his intellectual property. This is a bit different, though, as there has been a long standing explicit permission for not-for-profit productions. These days a production without much SFX and reasonable production values runs a minimum of around $100K per hour of the final product, and that's not at Hollywood rates. So is it the fact that they managed to get a couple of million dollars in support that makes the difference? Is it that it's actual higher level Hollywood professionals who have made this their passion project?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/th...Lewis&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews
