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Is this show partly due to Star Trek Beyond underperforming?
posted by fan_of_filmsSTAFFMOD on May 19, 2017 at 8:25 AM
Wikipedia -
Star Trek Beyond underperformed financially at the box office. Scott Mendelson of Forbes observed that one factor contributing to the film's underperformance was its untimely release in a crowded summer in which it was surrounded by other tentpole films like Ghostbusters, Jason Bourne and Suicide Squad. He also noted that had Paramount dated the film for the accompanying series' 50th anniversary on September 8, the film could've benefited from it and could possibly reflect in its box office performance as evident in 2012 when MGM released Skyfall (which went on to gross over $1 billion) for the series' 50th anniversary.
Star Trek Beyond grossed $158.8 million in the US & Canada and $184.6 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $343.5 million against a production budget of $185 million. It had a global opening of $89.2 million and an IMAX opening of $11.6 million on 571 IMAX screens. Industry analyst Danny Cox had previously estimated that in order for the film to break even, it will have to earn $340–350 million worldwide.
Had Beyond been a big hit I wonder if this show would have been delayed or scrapped?
Reply by Movie Queen41
on August 16, 2017 at 7:14 PM
I wonder if this is it for the Kelvin timeline movies.
Reply by Knixon
on August 17, 2017 at 2:54 PM
I sure hope so. They were crap from the very beginning.
Reply by Movie Queen41
on August 18, 2017 at 5:42 PM
The only thing I liked was Karl Urban as Bones. Otherwise, they pale in comparison to the movies with the original cast.
Reply by Knixon
on August 18, 2017 at 5:56 PM
It wasn't just the cast, for me. They dumbed down the stories and a lot of details within the story, to an incredible level. The final straw for me was having Scotty (I think it was), after the long-distance transporter thing, materialize inside the WATER COOLING!! system of the Enterprise. What's next, a "putt putt putt" sound from the starship, like the propeller-engine sound effects from the jet plane in the "Airplane!" parody film? And what was that supposed to be, some kind of reference to Augustus Gloop sucked into the chocolate pipes in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?" Even if there were some kind of fluid cooling loop it would more likely be something like liquid sodium used by some atomic fission reactors and if you put water - like in a human body - into hot liquid sodium it EXPLODES, but even if it WERE water like in a car, and on the "cold" side, he would have been instantly poached. And that's leaving aside that based on previous "explanations" his body should have been mixed with whatever he transported into and he's instantly dead, etc etc.
Crap from start to finish.
Reply by Movie Queen41
on August 18, 2017 at 6:02 PM
I don't think the Kelvin movies lived up to the standards of the films with the original cast. Star Trek II, IV, and VI were so much better. Star Trek Into Darkness was just a remake of Star Trek II.