SG-1 DVD Movies

[SmileOfTheShadow]

Amanda Tapping just did an interview about the SG1 movies, in which 2 have been comissioned. Link: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2007/0...i_movies.shtml

The thing that caught my eye is that they gave Stargate 2 movies that cost $7 million a piece. That was a big eye opener. $14MM invested. That franchise, to my knowledge is even more niche than something like B5 (right?) so that's a pretty big gamble. And I've already seen promotions for them, which don't come out until next year.

I'm happy to see it continued, since season 10 really made no effort to wrap things up lol, but it annoys me that some companies seem to believe in their products a little more than Warner Brothers. I just wish we as fans received this kind of treatment. I'm not sure what to make of it, as much as I'm excited about seeing the SG1 movies.

[Radhil]

The thing that caught my eye is that they gave Stargate 2 movies that cost $7 million a piece. That was a big eye opener. $14MM invested. That franchise, to my knowledge is even more niche than something like B5 (right?) so that's a pretty big gamble. And I've already seen promotions for them, which don't come out until next year.

Not to be an ass, but Stargate has had a run on two different channels completely successfully for ten years, spawned a long running spinoff, and continues to be good repeat filler for years to come.

B5 ran on a smattering of syndication channels, and while successful on those, never really achieved any kind of following beyond cult. Until TNT picked up season 5, I bet most people never heard of it (myself, I saw at most four commercials for it in the preceding four years). It also doesn't repeat well due to it's serialized nature, what repeats it's had have more or less burnt out (SciFi ran it religiously for quite some time), and while it has a die-hard fanbase (a fact which needs to be wielded like a clue-bat over at WB-HQ), probably doesn't have quite the numbers a more casual audience like Stargate attracts. Not to mention that time dilutes all awareness.

Stargate is far less niche at the moment than B5 is. I'll always swing the B5 banner - and chances are there'll still be a B5 banner to swing in 30 years while Stargate's forgotten - but there ain't no getting around that.

[Lunan]

Amanda Tapping just did an interview about the SG1 movies, in which 2 have been comissioned. Link: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2007/0...i_movies.shtml

The thing that caught my eye is that they gave Stargate 2 movies that cost $7 million a piece. That was a big eye opener. $14MM invested. That franchise, to my knowledge is even more niche than something like B5 (right?) so that's a pretty big gamble.

well i love b5 and all, but sg-1 has a fan base as strong if not stronger then alot of trek. its been 10 years of fun, starting on showtime with good actors and good concepts plus not taking itself too seriously, its broadcast on scifi, channel 9, channel 5, and several other cable channels aroudn here. the dvds have made over 150 mill per season(not sure if this is true but i have seen this stat mentioned in various places like gate world or the scifi bb)

7 mill seems a bit low to me actully, however i hope they are a sucsess and that maybe more will come of them(especially if rick is in them)

[Jan]

7 mill seems a bit low to me actully, however i hope they are a sucsess and that maybe more will come of them(especially if rick is in them)

I'll bet Stargate won't have to recreate all of their ships from scratch so a lot of the effects work may already be done.

I have to agree that SG-1 is probably much more mainstream that B5 was or will be. Much as I love it, B5 just was never the commercial success that SG-1 and -Atlantis have been.

Jan

[Garibaldi's Hair]

I also think we are underestimating what WB thinks of the B5 fanbase. How many other TV shows that have been off air for almost ten years and with two commercially "failed" TV spin-offs behind them could WB have allowed to pilot their Direct-to-DVD project and had a realistic chance of making a commercial success of it.

If WB thought so little of B5 fandom or the show itself, they would have tried to persuade JMS to do something else ... or not offered him the chance to do anything at all.

It strikes me that WBTV is just a fundamentally unadventurous entity, and will always spend as little as it can on trying something new, whether B5 or not.

"Speculate to Accumulate" is an alien concept for them.

[b5finland]

7 mill seems a bit low to me actully, however i hope they are a sucsess and that maybe more will come of them(especially if rick is in them)

Hey it's a direct to DVD movie and 7 mill is good money compared to episode budget. If sale figures are good the plan is to do 2 new movies per year.