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Skriven 2006-06-04 19:20:00 av Robert E Starr JR (2182.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: To: JMS, Re. Crusade
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"Joseph DeMartino" <jdemarti@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Amy Guskin wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:17:28 -0400, Dennis \(Icarus\) wrote
> > (in article <526dc$447f211c$18d64cf6$20693@KNOLOGY.NET>):
>
> > Obviously, you've never worked in intellectual property.  Rights
holders
> > aren't always "big picture" kind of people...  :-p
>
> Or they try to look at *too* big a picture.  Remember WB's attitude
> towards doing "B5" on VHS?   First they didn't want to do it at all,
> because they didn't think it would sell  Then they didn't want to
> license it to Columbia House, because they thought that would dillute
> the market if they ever changed their minds and decided to release the
> series themselves.  Finally when they *did* relent and let Columbia
> House do their subscription release, WB couldn't get their tapes to
> market fast enough once they saw the CH sales figures.

Based upon that track record, Warner Brothers should write down their
first instinct w.r.t. B5, and then do the exact opposite.


> The major paperback houses may not be beating down WB's doors begging
> them to license "B5" for a major series of novels, but that doesn't
> mean the studio won't turn up its nose on any "lesser" offer.  Their
> theory being that this would screw up any potentional *future*
interest
> from a major.

Warner Brothers is good at one thing, giving me a headache.  Where's
that Excedrin bottle?  The dog probably has it.  He was into my Tums
awhile ago.


> I'm not saying any of this makes sense, I'm just saying
> WB has a history of

1....being mind-bogglingly aggravating?

2....cutting off their nose to spite their face?

3....shortsighted?

4....careless (re. the B5 CGI files and film elements).

5....all of the above.

> this sort of thing,  And it is, after all,
> Hollywood, not a place known for its respect for logic or being
> grounded in reality.  Hardly surprising.  The whole industry is devote
d
> to the manufacture, marketing and distribution of fantasy.  <g>

But I thought it was a "business."  They must make money in spite of
themselves.


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Mac Breck (KoshN)
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"Babylon 5: Crusade" (1999)
Galen: "There is always hope, only because it's the one thing that no
one has figured out how to kill yet."
(Galen's obviously never met Warner Brothers, TNT-Atlanta or Sci-Fi.)

"Brimstone" (1998)
[Stone lights a candle for the dead in a Catholic church]
Gina: Who's that for?
Ezekiel Stone: Me.
                                                   
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