Posted on 03/14/2012 5:02:51 PM PDT by aimhigh
The movie based on the conspiracy-terrorism-action show was in pre-production and set to start shooting next month, but has now ground to a halt because Fox will greenlight a budget no higher than $30 million, while Sutherland and producer Brian Grazer feel the budget needs to be in the low $40s at its tightest.
A Fox spokesman confirmed that the movie was on hold, and said it was related to timing.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonherald.com ...
It’s not just getting 40 million bucks, you have to assume the budget will be blown by at least 50%, so now you’re at 60 million, then you generally want to spend at least 50% of the budget (approved) on advertising, so now you’re at 80 million, and distributors and the theaters still get a cut so you generally need to double the out to break even. So you want to make 160 million bucks with a show that lost 25% of its ratings in its last year on the air, which was 2 years ago, and if they’re still arguing budget the movie is at least 2 years away. I’m sure the middling fate of the second X-Files movie made them a bit gun shy.
Another article I read says Fox is blaiming it on a “timing” issue. Keifer only has 7 weeks off from “Touch” before it starts up again.
Who names their kid ‘Keifer’ anyway?
Very scared after the movie of Clancy’s, “The Sum of All Fears”:
The baddies were written as the muzzies we ALL expect, but presto-change-o, braaaave Hollywood transformed them into blonde terrorists from....
Wait for it..!
SOUTH AFRICA....!!
We’ve all been terrorized by THEM, right...?
Damn TV networks.
They played the same game with “Deadwood” - promising fans it would be back, and then pulling the plug once they thought everyone forgot.
Hopefully the powers-that-be (or Jack Bauer) can figure out how to get these nitwits’ heads screwed back on straight. We’ve been without “24” long enough!
(Hmmm. Hey... Rush is a big “24” fan... maybe HE can finance the other 10 million!).
Kiefer’s not the only one who’s furious! I am, too!
They aren't rags, they are sheets.
Sam deal with the re-make of “Red Dawn” —was shot bravely as an invasion of the USA by the ChiComs, right?
THEN Hollywood put some more thought into the lucrative PRC film market of 1.3 billion eye pairs —we KNOW they’d never pirate movies, right?
Suddenly he invaders of the USA were rice-craving NORTH KOREANS..... >:(
Dang it. I hadn’t heard this. I think Kiefer has every reason to be pissed off. After all the money he made the network and this is how they treat him. Try other companies, I can’t imagine another company not wanting to pick it up immediately.
They will work it out. Notice the phrase it is “on hold” instead of a dead deal.
We already know Fox News is in the tank for Romney. Is Fox and Fox News one in the same, both owned by Murdock? Whatever the answer is it looks like they are doing what Hollywood wants. Sad.
Fathers named “Donald.”
Full name: Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland
I was a big fan but had to stop watching when they hired that c*** Janine Garafalo.
Bummer...
Keifer could chip in the rest.
7 names??
Celebutard families are so weird!!
“Reifer” was taken.
Weird. I did a cut and paste.
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