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Originally posted by Andrew_Swallow View PostI suspect that this is rank related. The suits in charge of $100 million films are a high rank than the men in charge of $30 million films. The higher rank also means that the men can authorise the money where as the lower rank need to ask their bosses (and committees).
On the other hand if, in reality, the lower ranked guys in charge of $30m movies DO get to make the decisions are they just inherently more cautious because if they are seen to fund too many flops they won't get to move up to be in charge of $100m movies.
In either case, the problem lies with the lower ranked suits themselves rather than the infrastructure above them. What would be the point in putting someone in charge of $30m movies if they still have to ask their boss for the money at the end of the day?
OR ... radical thought ... is it that the kind of movies you can make for $30m are actually more risky than movies costing $100m? I am sure we can all recount a number of instances in which we have been to see an expensive blockbuster movie and come away thinking that the story was dire, the acting atrocious and the dialogue dull and uninspired but consider the ticket price money well spent because the soundtrack was awesome, the action sequences spectacular, the effects eye-poppingly good and we come out having been hugely entertained.
A $30m movie cannot spend a ton of money on eye-popping special effects, spectacular action sequences and so on, and has to rely much more on script, dialogue, story, casting and acting. If those things end up as dire, atrocious and uninspired as they are in the blockbuster then the movie will die on its feet because it hasn't anything else to build on.The Optimist: The glass is half full
The Pessimist: The glass is half empty
The Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be
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Plus, $100 million dollars! is not really that much today, as Dr. Evil found out. Really, most movies even just comedies cost that much now.
Maybe most isn't right but many.
I still think JMS could take 1 crappy movies budget and make 3 good ones but maybe he doesn't want to anymore because that puts a lot of stress on him."And what kind of head of Security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know? I mean, I know what I know because I have to know it. And if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me either. " And I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of Security will not report you for doing so."
"Because you won't tell yourself about it?"
"I try never to get involved in my own life, too much trouble."
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Some tweets from JMS (Jun 20)
@mikeydog Michael Stone
@straczynski What is next for the Babylon 5 Universe and when will we see it?
@straczynski JMichael Straczynski
@mikeydog More at a later time when I can talk about it. Answer unclear, please try again.
@mikeydog Michael Stone
@straczynski Not to get all child-like (about to) but any estimate on when you will be able to talk about it? (Babylon 5)
@straczynski JMichael Straczynski
@mikeydog When all parties have said it's okay.
@mikeydog Michael Stone
Can you reveal who the "parties" are? Network? Actors?
@straczynski JMichael Straczynski
@mikeydog What part of "I can't talk about it" is evaporating on the frying pan...?
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@DavidLC11 David Cornette
@straczynski would you ever return to making weekly television again?
@straczynski JMichael Straczynski
@DavidLC11 Under the right conditions, yes. More on this later.
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@WxManShane Shane Smith
@straczynski any new projects in the B5 Universe in the works?
@straczynski JMichael Straczynski
@WxManShane That's a far more interesting question than you might imagine...but I can't talk about it at the moment.
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At this point, two months after April, we should just let anything that people ask JMS about B5 go. Its gotten to a maddening point. Part of me wishes he didn't make the April comment, because it feels like a game. A game that even JMS seems even annoyed at playing at.
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This sort of waiting has happened several times before. IIRC, the Jeremiah announcement was made several months after the agreements had been made simply because it wasn't up to JMS to say, it was up to (I think) MGM.
I don't think JMS was annoyed by the question until 'Mikeydog' kept trying to wheedle info.
Jan"As empathy spreads, civilization spreads. As empathy contracts, civilization contracts...as we're seeing now.
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Originally posted by Jan View PostThis sort of waiting has happened several times before. IIRC, the Jeremiah announcement was made several months after the agreements had been made simply because it wasn't up to JMS to say, it was up to (I think) MGM.
B5 is one other franchise they might want to try get up there with the DC heroes to fill the void left by Potter, so they are probably keeping things hush-hush.Last edited by vakie; 06-23-2011, 05:15 PM.
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Originally posted by galego25 View Post@mikeydog What part of "I can't talk about it" is evaporating on the frying pan...?
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Last edited by Marsden; 06-26-2011, 03:18 PM."And what kind of head of Security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know? I mean, I know what I know because I have to know it. And if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me either. " And I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of Security will not report you for doing so."
"Because you won't tell yourself about it?"
"I try never to get involved in my own life, too much trouble."
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Originally posted by galego25 View PostI was expecting the B5 related annoucement (if it happens) to be a new movie. But now I'm starting to believe it could be a new series...
Now with hints like:"any new projects in the B5 Universe in the works?"
@straczynski JMichael Straczynski
That's a far more interesting question than you might imagine...but I can't talk about it at the moment.
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Originally posted by Biffy Clyro View PostDoes this contradict his previous tweets?
Yes, doing a new SF film for Bruckheimer, and should have some news about something non-B5 but tv-ish soon.
http://twitter.com/#!/straczynski/st...31772597575680
No, I don't think it contradicts anything he's said previously. JMS had mentioned a while back that he had a couple of TV projects that he was going to be taking out this season. He did "Shattered Union" for Bruckheimer and mentioned before that there was a second project possible.
ETA: Somebody posted to JMS' Facebook page that he'd announced via Ain't It Cool News that the B5 project had fallen through. The link psted went nowhere and JMS tweeted "Nothing to say on that count at the moment." just a few hours ago.
JanLast edited by Jan; 06-30-2011, 03:54 AM."As empathy spreads, civilization spreads. As empathy contracts, civilization contracts...as we're seeing now.
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Originally posted by Jan View PostETA: Somebody posted to JMS' Facebook page that he'd announced via Ain't It Cool News that the B5 project had fallen through. The link psted went nowhere and JMS tweeted "Nothing to say on that count at the moment." just a few hours ago.
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