STAR TREK RELEASE MOVED TO MAY, 2009

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According to Paramount, Star Trek, the newest film which is to be a re-imagining/restart of the franchise by J.J. Abrams has seen its opening date move by over five months.
The film was originally supposed to open this Christmas Day (December 25th), but is now slated to open on May 8, 2009.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount is making several changes in its upcoming film slate as the studio reviews its movie plans post writers’ strike. As THR reports:
”Star Trek” arguably was the biggest film moved, with the intended Christmas Day release now set for the first prime date in the following summer boxoffice season: May 8, 2009. But “Trek” appears something of an exception in the mix of itinerant pics, with its shift unrelated to script or cast considerations.

“‘Star Trek’ is moving to summer because its has so much boxoffice potential,” Par spokesman Michael Vollman said. “It does not need any script tweaks. They’re two-thirds of the way through shooting, and we would have delivered a great movie at Christmas.”

The studio has now moved The Curious Case of Benjamin Button from a November 26th release to December 19th, most likely to boost its holiday box office. Not that Button (based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man who lives backwards and is aging in reverse, and growing younger) will pull in the same audience as Trek would have, but it has Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in it.
Star Trek is now poised a the third of the “summer” movies of 2009 - Wolverine is due to open on May 1st, and Watchmen is slated for a May 6th release.

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Breaking News: P2 Out As Star Trek Online Developer

by Dana Massey, 14 Jan 2008 19:10

bay area, breaking news, casual games, development ceased, mmorpg, p2 entertainment, perpetual platform, star trek online, warcry

Star Trek Online

P2 Entertainment - formerly Perpetual Entertainment - has ceased development on Star Trek Online, according to multiple sources at the San Francisco based developer. The news does not, however, mean that the game is canceled. The license, as well as the game’s content - but not the code - have been transferred to another Bay Area development studio where work will continue. It is not entirely clear at this time what this means for the individual developers who worked on the project at P2.

As a company, P2 Entertainment will continue on with their profitable Perpetual Platform, which has been licensed to industry leaders like BioWare, and refocus their core business on the casual games market.

Without the code, whoever takes over Star Trek Online will be faced with a lot of work to complete the project, which means that fans may have longer to wait for a completed Star Trek Online.

P2 Entertainment had no comment on the story.

WarCry will continue to follow this story as it develops.

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Perpetual Launch Teaser Site For Star Trek Online | TrekMovie.com

Perpetual Launch Teaser Site For Star Trek Online
January 20, 2007

by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Games , trackback

Well it is almost a year late, but Perpatual have finally launched the official site for their MMORPG Star Trek Online. StarTrekOnline.com
does not have a lot of content (in fact it has less content then the
subsite that was previously hosted a Perpetual.com), but it is sporting
a whole new Starfleet emblem. Although games may not count as ‘canon’,
the game is set a couple decades after Star Trek Nemesis so
changes in uniforms and the emblem are to be expected. Although there
isnt much to look at on the site, Executive Producer Daron Stinnett
talked to WarCry Network this week and answered some questions about
STO.

Here are some highlights from the interview:

• All transporting will be done ‘point to point’, no need to spend time finding a transporter room
• Although the Trek TV universe seems somewhat homogeneous, players
  will not be constrained in that way, game supports ‘player’s ability to
  individualize’
• Game will have both text chat and voice chat
• The holodeck will allow you to ‘go anywhere’ and offer ‘unique exploration, trade skills, and social opportunities‘
• Race line up has been locked down, will be revealed on teaser site (didn’t say when)
• Game will have an ‘economy’ with some form of money
• Foes will be both familiar races as well as ‘a new threat’
• Art direction will be ‘break free’ of the film and TV look, STO will be a ‘wholly new Star Trek experience’
• Will not start showing more screen shots until one year away from launch (so obviouly it is more than a year from now)

 

Stinnett offers this detailed example of how players balance life as a free roaming ‘avatar’ and being part of a ship:

The easiest way to explain the dynamic between your
avatar and ship in MMORPG terms is to think of your ship as a mount
that is an upgradeable combat platform. Early in one’s career, you will
gain command your first small solo ship to freely navigate the galaxy.
As you progress in your career and make alliances, you’ll gain access
to bigger and better ships to upgrade in parallel to your avatar. And
when players decide to group with others in space, the choice is yours,
group as individual ships or crew together aboard a single ship. Our
design is geared towards providing players with the freedom to choose
his or her own path on a journey through the galaxy.

For the full interview, check out WarCry Network

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Check out the plot for this thing from TrekMovie.com Not sure I like this, but it could be interesting.

Trek’s darker future…with a spark of hope
The Zero Room team felt that the time was right for a new approach to Trek. The setting is the year 2528 and the Federation is a different place after suffering through a devastating war with the Romulans 60 years earlier. The war was sparked off after a surprise attack of dozens of ‘Omega particle’ detonations throughout the Federation creating vast areas which become impassible to warp travel and essentially cut off almost half the Federation from the rest. During the war the Klingon homeworld was occupied by the Romulans, all of Andoria was destroyed and the Vulcans, who were negotiating reunification with the Romulans, pulled out of the Federation. The setting may seem bleak and not very Trek-like, but that is where the show’s hero Captain Alexander Chase comes in. Relegated to border patrol, Chase is determined to bring the Federation (and a ship called Enterprise) back to the glory days of seeking out new life and new civilizations.

The parallels with the real world are obvious. The view is that to be relevant Trek cannot skirt around issues. Rossi explains: “couching big social issues in allegories so they are more palatable is kind of passé now. Today shows deal with these issues head on, so we decided to make the entire show an allegory. The premise is an allegory for the post-9/11 world we live in. A world of uncertainty and fear.” In addition to the attempt at relevance, the Zero Room team want to incorporate other modern techniques. The show will have an overall ‘arc’ related to the mystery of who perpetuated that ‘Omega’ attack which sparked the Romulan War (turns out it wasn’t the Romulans…ooops). As one might imagine, all of the above back-story is quite a lot to get across in animated mini episodes, but that is where the web comes in. On StarTrek.com there will be a special sub-site for the show with crew logs and detailed histories of the Federation to get viewers up to speed on what has been going on since Picard’s day. The team also want to tackle the issue of how Trek does not usually lend itself to the action-oriented world of animated shows like Star Wars: Clone Wars. “We won’t have long diatribes, we are utilizing a clipped kind of writing and the editing is frenetic,” explains Rossi. The overall approach is hoped to make the show have a wider appeal than Trek’s last foray into the world of animation.

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It’s worse than that … he’s animated, Jim!

Friday December 15, 2006, 11:06 am

Star Trek webtoon?

The Trek Movie Report says that CBS is considering a Star Trek webtoon:

Star Trek may be set for a comeback into yet another arena, this time in the 2nd dimension. TrekMovie.com has learned that there is a new animated Trek project under consideration at CBS, but it has yet to get the green light. The series would most likely be broadcast on the web and be made up of ‘Clone Wars’ like 6-minute mini episodes.

If the early design work for the project looks familiar, it’s because it was done by Jeff Parker:

I don’t know how any of this is coming along, so don’t ask me. There’s no show yet, and I can’t hire you. I did my bits back in the summer. Scanning through the comments you can see some folks enraged that it might be anything other than the talky yawnfests that have brought the franchise to it’s current state of stasis. I can vouch for Rossi’s love of the ST mythos though, and his ideas to create a show with a pulse sound very entertaining to me. And of course all that art is very preliminary and may not resemble anything that ends up happening. Carry on.

So what about an Interman webtoon, Jeff?

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SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel

12:00 AM, 21-NOVEMBER-06
	Takei Is Dad Of Heroes‘ Hiro TV Guide reported that Star Trek veteran George Takei has been cast as the father of the Trek-obsessed Hiro in NBC’s hit superhero series Heroes. “It was one of those lightning-bolt ideas,” series creator Tim Kring told TV Guide. Takei, who played Mr. Sulu in the original Trek TV show and subsequent films, will play dad to the breakout time-bending character played by Masi Oka. “This is absolutely brilliant!” Oka told the magazine. “I just hope I get to say, ‘Dad! Sulu is my hero, not you!’” The Nov. 27 issue of TV Guide will have details of Takei’s appearance. Heroes airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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J.J. Abrams is a really good wirter, so I am really looking forward to the next film!

Mondo Media: Star Trek: It’s Not Dead, Jim

Star Trek: It’s Not Dead, Jim

Mondo Media, Scoop, Friday, October 13, 2006

Despite the best efforts of the people behind Star Trek: The Next
Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the last few feature films,
Star Trek isn’t dead yet. The forty-year flame that appeared to be
snuffed out by Star Trek: Nemesis and that flickered ever-so-briefly
during the last (and some would say only good) season of Star Trek:
Enterprise, is once again making its fans dream of boldly going where no man
has gone before.

While we’re not talking warp speed yet, here’s some of
the indications that one should consider as proof of life:

The results
experienced at the Christie’s auction last weekend were nothing short of
spectacular. The event brought in more than $7 million from more than 1,000 lots
of props, costumes, models and miniatures, according to Reuters. The U.S.S.
Enterprise-D special effects model, which was used in the series pilot for
Star Trek: The Next Generation, sold to a private bidder for a record
$576,000. With a take more than double the estimates, it’s safe to say that
interest in Trek is still around.

IDW Publishing has just
announced a new Star Trek comic book line. Where once, particularly under
DC Comics, Trek comics were the standard of licensed fare, it has been years
since that was true. Now IDW, with its track record including CSI,
Angel, Transformers, and 24, is going to take a run at
them.

Diamond Select Toys has produced an appealing line of figures and
props and drew huge crowds at their San Diego Comic-Con booth with their
40^th anniversary celebration hosting of Nichelle Nichols (Uhura from
the original series).

Does this constitute full-fledged success once more
for the franchise?

Not yet. There are numerous other promising signs, but
another dog of a film could ice the comeback for a while, just as a hit could
signal a return to the “normal” that kept Star Trek at the forefront
for much of the last four decades of science fiction
fandom.

Writer-director J.J. Abrams has signed on to helm the next
feature film. Will it do the trick? Let us know what you
think!

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