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Two Stargate SG1 Films Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-for-them dept.

Presence2 noted that MGM announced that the Stargate franchise will migrate to the big screen, carrying with it the ending of the last two season's Ori plot-line. The plot summaries listed in the article don't seem like anything surprising... one even has a wacky time-line slip-up plot. Very original for scifi ;) I'll still watch it.

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  1. Big Screen?? by Nishal · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was my understanding these were gonna be straight to dvd, maybe even HD or Blue Ray.. Either way i will still watch em...

    1. Re:Big Screen?? by Anpheus · · Score: 2, Informative

      Film costs. If a major release costs between $1500 and $3000 per print in the US, producing 3000 prints takes a large amount of time and money (upwards of $9,000,000.) A staggered release allows time for prints to be returned, inspected, and if undamaged, sent elsewhere.

      So adding another market, say, Europe, is even more expensive. Also, subtitles can often require <em>wholly new prints to be manufactured</em>. The subtitles are often on the film itself, for example, The Protector showed with subtitles in the US with subtitles on the film (as opposed to digitally projected subtitles.) For a movie company to add to their existing expenses by making prints of a movie that may not even succeed in the United States. The additional cost could include several thousand more prints, insuring that the subtitling in dozens of languages is accurate (or at least passes some level of quality control.)

  2. Old News? by FrostyCoolSlug · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since then, MGM have confirmed that they hope to continuing SG1 as Ongoing Movies instead of a season 11. Hopefully this means the ongoing success of Stargate, and the cast.

  3. Re:So let me get this straight. by ParraCida · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, the plan is to release these movies directly to DVD, so they won't be in theaters at all.

  4. Actually, they're TV movies, not Cinema movies. by MROD · · Score: 4, Informative

    The actual announcment of these films was a few months back and they're going to be TV movies for the SciFi channel. For more details browse ISN.

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    Agrajag: "Oh no, not again!"
  5. Re:Ha! by PhoenixFlare · · Score: 3, Informative

    And end up failing miserably like every other sci-fi tv to big screen endeavour outside of Trek TOS?

    I doubt it, since it seems atm that they'll either be direct-to-DVD or TV-only. Slashdot and the linked site are woefully behind, these movies have been known about for at least a few weeks now.

  6. Re:I'm confused by cyberdanx · · Score: 2, Informative

    They're airing on sky one (uk). "The quest part 2" (ep 11) and a "line in the sand" (12) have already been shown. Atlantis has been airing in Canada.

    Both series have been pretty good so far except I didn't get the very end of Sunday first time (******spoiler******: I wondered if he ascended first time I watched it).

  7. Re:Excellant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It wouldn't be the first time SciFi's forced a series to a TV movie by cancelling it.