It's been a long road for Axanar, the crowdfunded Star Trek fan film from producer Alec Peters. Paramount and CBS hit the movie with a lawsuit that's gotten a lot of attention from the geek community over the past few months, and on Friday, the two parties have finally resolved their differences. The Wrap reports that Peters has agreed to make "substantial changes" to the movie and agreed that any future projects would comply with CBS and Paramount's fan film guidelines that were established last year.
Paramount and CBS (the distributors of Star Trek projects for film and television, respectively) have agreed to allow the Axanar team to continue to play their Prelude to Axanar videos on YouTube, and to allow the movie to play in two 15-minute chunks on YouTube after those substantial changes are made. The movie raised more than a million dollars, and fans who contributed to...
Paramount and CBS (the distributors of Star Trek projects for film and television, respectively) have agreed to allow the Axanar team to continue to play their Prelude to Axanar videos on YouTube, and to allow the movie to play in two 15-minute chunks on YouTube after those substantial changes are made. The movie raised more than a million dollars, and fans who contributed to...
- 1/23/2017
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
After a year of legal debates, an agreement has been reached that allows Axanar Productions to finally move ahead with filming the fan-project Star Trek: Axanar. However, the project will not be made in the way it was originally planned. Due to Paramount/CBS Guidelines for Fan Films, the delayed movie will be shortened to a half-hour and altered from the way it was previously intended.
Last year, Paramount and CBS put a stop to the many internet fan-made films and web series based on Star Trek. Their strict production guidelines crippled multiple fan-created projects, including Star Trek: Axanar, a planned feature length fan film that focuses on the Federation’s first war with the Klingons, and features Garth of Izar, a Trek character introduced in the classic Star Trek TV series (1966-1969) in the episode “Whom Gods Destroy”. The Axanar Productions team raised over $100,000 to produce a...
Last year, Paramount and CBS put a stop to the many internet fan-made films and web series based on Star Trek. Their strict production guidelines crippled multiple fan-created projects, including Star Trek: Axanar, a planned feature length fan film that focuses on the Federation’s first war with the Klingons, and features Garth of Izar, a Trek character introduced in the classic Star Trek TV series (1966-1969) in the episode “Whom Gods Destroy”. The Axanar Productions team raised over $100,000 to produce a...
- 1/21/2017
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Over a year after Star Trek's copyright holders engaged in a legal war with the sci-fi series' own fans over a crowdfunded, unofficial prequel film, the two sides in the infringement lawsuit announced Friday their battle will not head to a courtroom after agreeing upon a settlement.
In December 2015, Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against producer Alec Peters over his planned film Axanar and its prequel Prelude to Axanar, which they claimed "used innumerable copyrighted elements of Star Trek, including its settings, characters, species,...
In December 2015, Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against producer Alec Peters over his planned film Axanar and its prequel Prelude to Axanar, which they claimed "used innumerable copyrighted elements of Star Trek, including its settings, characters, species,...
- 1/21/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Set phasers to “peace.” After more than a year of legal combat over the proposed Star Trek fan film Axanar, a settlement has been reached between the filmmakers, Alec Peters and his Axanar Productions, Inc., and Paramount and CBS Studios. In the settlement, both Axanar Productions and Peters have agreed to acknowledge that the film, and the earlier prequel short film Prelude To Axanar, “were not approved by Paramount or CBS, and that both works crossed boundaries…...
- 1/20/2017
- Deadline TV
Set phasers to “peace.” After more than a year of legal combat over the proposed Star Trek fan film Axanar, a settlement has been reached between the filmmakers, Alec Peters and his Axanar Productions, Inc., and Paramount and CBS Studios. In the settlement, both Axanar Productions and Peters have agreed to acknowledge that the film, and the earlier prequel short film Prelude To Axanar, “were not approved by Paramount or CBS, and that both works crossed boundaries…...
- 1/20/2017
- Deadline
On Wednesday, a federal judge was told that while Paramount Pictures and CBS have produced a "limited number" of Star Trek television episodes and films, "they do not not own a copyright to the idea of Star Trek, or the Star Trek universe as a whole."
The proposition comes from Alec Peters' Axanar Productions, which put out on YouTube a 20-minute "mockumentary" titled Prelude to Axanar and was in the midst of pursuing a feature-length version touted as a professional-quality Star Trek fan film before being hit with a copyright lawsuit. The litigation survived an initial motion to dismiss,...
The proposition comes from Alec Peters' Axanar Productions, which put out on YouTube a 20-minute "mockumentary" titled Prelude to Axanar and was in the midst of pursuing a feature-length version touted as a professional-quality Star Trek fan film before being hit with a copyright lawsuit. The litigation survived an initial motion to dismiss,...
- 11/17/2016
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount Pictures and CBS TV have drawn a line in the sand to stop the creation of fan-made films based on Star Trek. Because of the increasing high-quality of fan projects like Star Trek Axanar, the two big corporations have initiated a series of new rules designed to limit the scope and proliferation of the many independently made Star Trek projects. Is this fair?
Independently made Star Trek projects are nothing new. The first Trek fan-made movie was filmed in Super 8 back in 1978. Since the introduction of the internet, Star Trek fan films and ongoing series have exploded in number. Within the last decade, we’ve had Trek fan series like Starship Exeter, Starship Farragut, Star Trek: Intrepid, Star Trek the New Voyages (Aka Star Trek Phase 2) and, the best one of all, Star Trek Continues, to name a few. We’ve also had full-length independent films like...
Independently made Star Trek projects are nothing new. The first Trek fan-made movie was filmed in Super 8 back in 1978. Since the introduction of the internet, Star Trek fan films and ongoing series have exploded in number. Within the last decade, we’ve had Trek fan series like Starship Exeter, Starship Farragut, Star Trek: Intrepid, Star Trek the New Voyages (Aka Star Trek Phase 2) and, the best one of all, Star Trek Continues, to name a few. We’ve also had full-length independent films like...
- 8/8/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Before there was a fancy warehouse studio constructed in the heart of the Los Angeles film community, Alec Peters had his sights set on something smaller. And yeah, it was probably a little too small.Peters who along with his "independent" fan-film company Axanar Productions, are defendants in a copyright infringement suit from the studios that own Star Trek had wanted to shoot his "Prelude to Axanar" short in a small city called Victorville, about 90 minutes northeast of Los Angeles. Peters had found an old linen warehouse here he felt would be perfect to film the short he hoped would raise the money for his full-length feature "Star Trek: Axanar."But one member of Peter's entourage wasn't keen on the idea. And it wasn't just anybody, it was "Prelude's" director, Christian Gossett."It was ...
- 7/7/2016
- GeekNation.com
Despite what J.J. Abrams says, it looks as if the makers of the Star Trek fan film Prelude to Axanar still have some legal hassles ahead of them....Read more...
- 6/16/2016
- by Yidio
- Yidio
"Star Trek" has amassed one of the most devoted fanbases in film and television history. A recent in case in point is "Prelude to Axanar," a crowdfunded short film made by fans that sought $10,000 in funding on Kickstarter but made $101,000. Most have responded well to the 20-minute project, with the notable exception of CBS and Paramount Pictures, who sued the filmmakers for copyright infringement at the end of last year after it was announced that a feature-length version was in the works as well. Courtesy of directors J.J. Abrams and Justin Lin, it appears that "Axanar" will have a happy ending after all. Read More: 'Star Trek Beyond' New Trailer: Idris Elba Threatens The Enterprise In Action-Packed Journey "We started talking about it and realized this was not, you know, an appropriate way to deal with the fans," says Abrams in the above video. "All fans of 'Star-Trek' are part of this world,...
- 5/22/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
A California federal judge is allowing Paramount Pictures and CBS to boldly go where no Star Trek rights holder has gone before. The two studios are suing over Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, a short film, as well as Axanar, a proposed feature-length picture that's been raising money on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms. In response to the lawsuit, Alec Peters' Axanar Productions demanded more specificity about what copyrighted elements were actually infringed. The plaintiffs then amended the complaint, which drew ridicule from an attempt to take ownership of everything from "pointy ears" to the Klingon language. Nevertheless, on
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- 5/10/2016
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios have filed a copyright-infringement suit against the producers of Axanar, which bills itself as a "ground-breaking independent Star Trek film." The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, seeks monetary damages and an injunction restraining the producers from distributing, marketing and selling the film. The producers already have produced a short film titled Star Trek: Prelude To Axanar and have raised close to $1…...
- 12/30/2015
- Deadline
I suppose you can file this one under 'How Did It Not Happen Sooner?', but Paramount Pictures and CBS are suing the production team behind the Star Trek fan-film, Axanar. For those of you not up to snuff, a group of filmmakers created a pretty awesome little short film, Prelude to Axanar, in hopes that they could generate some revenue to do a feature film following Garth of Izar, the Starfleet... Read More...
- 12/30/2015
- by Sean Wist
- JoBlo.com
Earlier this year, a prelude to a Star Trek fan film was released called Axanar. I've posted that 21-minute short for you to watch below. That short was crowdfunded and it served as a stepping stone to a much larger project. The team that made that launched another crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a full-length feature film, and so far it has raised over $1.13 million.
Over the years, Paramount and CBS — the rights holders to the Star Trek franchise — have supported fan films and even encouraged them at times! But this week they slapped the production company of this Star Trek film with a lawsuit. I guess it just got too big for them, and they felt threatened by it.
It probably didn't help that Axanar is officially described as the "first independent" Star Trek film, and not a fan film. Here's the official description of the project:
Axanar is the first fully-professional,...
Over the years, Paramount and CBS — the rights holders to the Star Trek franchise — have supported fan films and even encouraged them at times! But this week they slapped the production company of this Star Trek film with a lawsuit. I guess it just got too big for them, and they felt threatened by it.
It probably didn't help that Axanar is officially described as the "first independent" Star Trek film, and not a fan film. Here's the official description of the project:
Axanar is the first fully-professional,...
- 12/30/2015
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Star Trek fans have funneled over $1 million in crowdfunding to help create Axanar, an independently produced, professional-quality prequel film. But the grassroots campaign has hit a major snag: On Wednesday, Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against producer Alec Peters in California district court, The Wrap reports.
"The 'Axanar' works infringes plaintiffs' works by using innumerable copyrighted elements of 'Star Trek,' including its settings, characters, species, and themes," reads the complaint, which targets both Axanar and that film's own prequel, Prelude to Axanar. CBS...
"The 'Axanar' works infringes plaintiffs' works by using innumerable copyrighted elements of 'Star Trek,' including its settings, characters, species, and themes," reads the complaint, which targets both Axanar and that film's own prequel, Prelude to Axanar. CBS...
- 12/30/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Updated, Dec. 20, 2015 9:42 a.m. Pt: Paramount Pictures and CBS Studios issued a joint statement on the suit to TheWrap. Parmount Pictures and CBS Studios are suing the producer of the crowdfunded “Star Trek” fan film, “Axanar.” The companies are going after producer Alec Peters of Axanar Productions for copyright infringement in a suit filed Wednesday in California district court. The suit concerns “Axanar” and the prequel film “Prelude to Axanar,” collectively referred to as “the ‘Axanar’ Works.” “The ‘Axanar’ Works infringes plaintiffs’ works by using innumerable copyrighted elements of ‘Star Trek,’ including its settings, characters, species, and themes,” the complaint.
- 12/30/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Guns, guns and more guns.
Machina Prime premiered its live-action short “Loadout: Going In Hot” today, which is the latest adaptation of bring video games to life. It’s based on the video game shooter “Loadout” by Edge of Reality and also free for Psn members today on PlayStation.
Wayside Creations recruited Richard Hatch as Captain Gaz, to lead a silly, looney crew of a space freighter against the odds of other haulers and shipping companies who want to steel their business.
The short is directed by Vincent Talenti (“Red Star,” “Fallout: Nuka Break”). It also stars Bonnie Bower (“Fallout: Nuka Break,” “Escape”), Matt Mercer (“Attack on Titan,” “Iron Man: Rise of Technovore”), Jon Enge (“Mars Rising Films”), Becca Hardy (“Off-Season”) and Circus-Szalewski (“Fallout: Nuka Break”).
Latino-Review had an exclusive phone interview with Richard Hatch on his role and his love for good story and sci-fi.
Check out the full...
Machina Prime premiered its live-action short “Loadout: Going In Hot” today, which is the latest adaptation of bring video games to life. It’s based on the video game shooter “Loadout” by Edge of Reality and also free for Psn members today on PlayStation.
Wayside Creations recruited Richard Hatch as Captain Gaz, to lead a silly, looney crew of a space freighter against the odds of other haulers and shipping companies who want to steel their business.
The short is directed by Vincent Talenti (“Red Star,” “Fallout: Nuka Break”). It also stars Bonnie Bower (“Fallout: Nuka Break,” “Escape”), Matt Mercer (“Attack on Titan,” “Iron Man: Rise of Technovore”), Jon Enge (“Mars Rising Films”), Becca Hardy (“Off-Season”) and Circus-Szalewski (“Fallout: Nuka Break”).
Latino-Review had an exclusive phone interview with Richard Hatch on his role and his love for good story and sci-fi.
Check out the full...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
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