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What I should have said was that they'd do the 4K scans in groups of three. Wrath of Khan already has a 4K scan (it was released on Blu-ray and maybe 4K digitally?) so I doubt they'll do a new transfer for that. Assuming that Amazon France's listing is right, they'll do I to IV and then I think...

Maybe they're planning on releasing the TOS and TNG movies in three groups of 3?

I can't speak to TMP but Foster ghost wrote the novelization of Star Wars and Lucas got the credit.

Yeah, I'm sure there's examples of it both ways but generally speaking, when I see something talking about the amount of special features on a disc, they don't include the commentary in the total. The only reason that that's something I notice is because it seems weird to me to not count the...

Yeah and unlike Phantasm, Star Trek is one of the most popular franchises in history and has one of the biggest studios in the world behind it so Trek shouldn't require Abrams' help because Paramount should be covering it.

Having worked in a video store, pre-orders determine how many copies the retailer will order from the studio. It's not as if you're damaging future Trek releases by not pre-ordering (a sale is, of course, more important than a pre-order) but I'd bet that Paramount is happier seeing big orders...

A cool thing about movies and art in general is that when you look at influences on people whose work you like, you get to see more interesting stuff that might have otherwise escaped your notice. It's like a rewarding door that leads to another rewarding door that leads to another rewarding...

I think that's how it goes for most people. It wasn't by design but by watching the shows and movies that my dad watched, I gained an appreciation for them from childhood. Never say never but I think if most people don't get into 'old' movies when they're young, it probably won't happen.

To be fair, that's the way it's always been. Kids in the 50's didn't care about silents and when I was a teen in the 90's, I was the only person I knew that cared about anything from before 1980.

I know you're just relaying the info but I can't believe that. Maybe they don't care about Star Trek but one look at the sales of their titles must show that Trek is one of (if not) the most popular franchises in the company's history. What titles does Paramount have that have sold better...

OFF TOPIC but I'm a big fan of the Friday The 13th movies (bad as they may be) and what's funny is that among many F13 fans, Martin Blythe was the villain who refused to release uncut versions of the F13 movies. I understood that, in most cases, any uncut footage from the F13 movies was lost...

In another thread, I said I'd be utterly flabbergasted if they only release one Trek movie so I guess I'm utterly flabbergasted.

I'm just guessing but I'd say they'd almost have to release it on Blu-ray too. I'd think that the Blu-ray market is too big to ignore and the UHD market is currently too small to rely on. Plus, they've never re-released the Trek movies on Blu-ray (beyond repackaging them) so there'd be some...

Best Buy does a lot of steelbooks so this re-release/repackage is probably due more to that than an anniversary of the movie.

I haven't seen the animated Trek shows but when it comes to animation, things like dirt, dust, hair, etc. are inherent to the process of cel animation. Star Trek is popular but the animated series isn't going to generate enough money where they can spend the kind of money that gets spent on...

Famous last words. :lol:

I can't speak for Tom but I've seen plenty of times where it seems like the only thing that some fans can do is criticize. They might like plenty of things about a movie/series/whatever but they never talk about that stuff, they just continually harp on what they don't like about it. That's not...

Were the Star Trek movies included as part of the Paramount/Warners distribution deal? If they were, then I'd say that this a re-release from Warners. The only difference I've noticed between a Paramount 'original' disc and a Warners re-release is that there's Warner logos on the packaging and...

All the live action Star Trek shows getting released on Blu-ray is the one sure thing in an unsure world.

And if it does, studios shouldn't cry if they don't make their money back. When they spend that kind of money (and the money on the accompanying ad campaign), the movie needs to out gross probably 99% of every other movie ever made. It's ridiculous to expect a movie to perform that well.

I don't know if it's ego as much as wanting the standard merchandising move of focusing on the current movie and focusing much less on older movies/TV shows/whatever. If Paramount was in charge of all things Star Trek, it would have just happened without anyone requesting it. Then when the new...

More explosions, more destruction, more PG-13 T&A and a massive threat against Earth by aliens (that way they can kill the bad guys without the audience caring because they're just aliens) or, basically, what you see in many summer movies now. I'm certainly not advocating that approach but I...

I wish them luck with that. Whining is what some fans (be it Trek or Star Wars or comic books or sports) like to do and they will do it no matter what. If Into Darkness wasn't as successful as hoped, Paramount's best financial move for a sequel would be to spend less money (it's moronic to make...

Looking at Box Office Mojo, the new Trek movie is currently the 364th highest grossing movie ever made (not adjusting for inflation). If a studio made a movie that has earned more than a quarter of a billion dollars (and counting), has made more money than all but 363 other movies in history and...

I still wouldn't count out the possibility of re-releases coming out with or near the new movie's video release in the fall.

I wouldn't give up until the beginning or middle of March because this would be kind of early to announce a title presumably coming in May. That being said, they could be afraid of glutting the home video market with Star Trek since The Next Generation Blu-rays are coming out fairly quick and...

Yeah, Fringe might have cost $4 million in its first season but they moved to Vancouver and dropped a cast member as a way to lower their budget so I'd be willing to bet that it's nowhere near that any more. I think shows like 24 and Lost cost around $4 million an episode and they had huge set...

The only time that a studio releases sales numbers (in public anyway) is when they want to tout how well they did.

There's no way that Star Trek seasons have sold two million copies on Blu-ray. The biggest blockbusters sell 2 or 3 million copies on Blu-ray (like Avatar) but expensive box sets can't do those kinds of numbers. That being said, I'm sure Paramount still made plenty of money from it especially...

I can't imagine Paramount being crazy enough to incur the wrath of Trekkies by changing the aspect ratio of the original footage.