Star Wars: Clone Wars to get theatrical release in UK

[SinisterUrge]

Not really, lost all respect for Lucas when he brought out those terrible prequels

[Ilive]

Sounds cool! If they get theatrical release he'll show what can be done with around a 6 Million dollar budget. I remember rumored that each episode cost 2 million dollars a piece to make. So 3 Episodes slammed into one episode would put you at 6 or 7 million dollars.

Can you imagine that? If it get theatrical release at that cost to make we may see an influx of low budget CG films at the theatre.

I really wish theatres would pro rate movies. There are some movies that you wouldn't pay 10 dollars to see and some you would. Wouldn't it be cool based on budget to charge differantly per film.

[DZL]

of course! why show the 1st 3 episodes on television for free, when you can charge people the price of a theatre ticket?

lucas, once again, proves he is a waaay better businessman than moviemaker.

before it's all over, there'll be 3 different versions of this series available on DVD (spaced 6 months apart, no less).

get out your wallets, everyone!

[Dragon_Lee]

Sounds cool! If they get theatrical release he'll show what can be done with around a 6 Million dollar budget. I remember rumored that each episode cost 2 million dollars a piece to make. So 3 Episodes slammed into one episode would put you at 6 or 7 million dollars.

Can you imagine that? If it get theatrical release at that cost to make we may see an influx of low budget CG films at the theatre.

I really wish theatres would pro rate movies. There are some movies that you wouldn't pay 10 dollars to see and some you would. Wouldn't it be cool based on budget to charge differantly per film.

$2 million per 30 minutes is a good thing??
I'm not very knowlegeable in the world of CG cartoons, but to me it sounds costly.
There's been cheaper CGI cartoons that I enjoyed almost as much...

And I would never trust "budget" as being a mark for quality to pay for....I know plenty of $120 million movies that were not worth it.

Now I am not discounting that I wouldn't want to see a cgi-heavy feature of 90+ minutes...especially a star wars one (no matter how expensive :-) )

Which brings me to ... why not do it worldwide? I think everyone here would like to see this in their local theatres... even if it might just run a few weeks.
I can see it developing into a lot more attention in the tv series if the continueing stories can be caught on the telly. (ofcourse then those would need to be planned in timely too, possibly ruining the exclusive contracts)

I do know that here in the Netherlands digital movie-theatres bombed, and that was not due to the public.

[hentsteph]

of course! why show the 1st 3 episodes on television for free, when you can charge people the price of a theatre ticket?

lucas, once again, proves he is a waaay better businessman than moviemaker.

before it's all over, there'll be 3 different versions of this series available on DVD (spaced 6 months apart, no less).

get out your wallets, everyone!

No mather where you spend your money, someone get's rich out of it... If you don't want to spend your money on Star War that OK, you'll end up spending it on something else that's fine. Lucas is making this on his own with no Hollywood big corp baking him... and at the same time expanding the Star Wars universe, I'm a Star Wars groupy and this makes me pretty pretty happy, no mather what you mith think.

[victor throe]

$2 million per 30 minutes is a good thing??

that is super cheap

i have a feature written which i hope to one day produce and it has been structured to be arse end cheap with various technological innovations which allow me to cut considerable costs. with 6 principle characters and a very small crew. the 2 year production schedule will cost £1m in art wages alone....thats without voice talent.

if those episodes clock in for as little as is touted, and looks good to boot, this will be a very good thing indeed.

im sure producers out there will agree that trying to convince people a cg feature can be done for cheap and still look good is met with 'cha-right...im not gambling my money...'

bring it on lucas.........i dont care how much he rapes the franchise, if he proves the concept of cheap CG feature, the floodgates will open

[Zoober]

$2 million per 30 minutes is a good thing??

That's a really good price based on the budgets for most childrens shows that I've seen.

[Dragon_Lee]

that is super cheap

i have a feature written which i hope to one day produce and it has been structured to be arse end cheap with various technological innovations which allow me to cut considerable costs. with 6 principle characters and a very small crew. the 2 year production schedule will cost £1m in art wages alone....thats without voice talent.

if those episodes clock in for as little as is touted, and looks good to boot, this will be a very good thing indeed.

im sure producers out there will agree that trying to convince people a cg feature can be done for cheap and still look good is met with 'cha-right...im not gambling my money...'

bring it on lucas.........i dont care how much he rapes the franchise, if he proves the concept of cheap CG feature, the floodgates will open

Ok I was looking at this from a tv-episode thing, not a feature film (even if it is made up of 3 eps) ... at 30 minutes minus commercial time it still sounds like a high price per minute of "tv" footage to me... but this is basically looking outside in...

I guess the whole CGI cartoon market is on a different level then I figured it to be... but this leaves me muttering why a bunch of random afternoon cartoons (cgi or other) I see flash by now and then are so shiny but actually rotten inside, hmm somewhere something's off :p

(actually it makes me treasure some other shows more and more now, might even go look at some cartoon dvd-sets)

Anyway, not out to start a debate on that, back on track...

I'd be bummed if there would be one place singled out to get a premiere run on a feature intro of the upcoming tv-series, with the distribution and widespread possibilities these days I don't really see a reason for that beyond costs and favouritism... (no hiding it, I'm a big fan of the series ... no matter how he rapes it )

Heck, if there needs to be favouritism I'd say go ahead and show the feature at this years IBC or something, to show the industry what lucas is cooking up ;)

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