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Star Trek: Phase II Executive Producer James Cawley has spent the last week in California and three days of that time on the set of the new Star Trek movie as the guest of Producer / Director J.J. Abrams. A chance meeting on the Paramount lot resulted in Cawley being invited to tour the Trek movie set by Abrams. MORE>>
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Star Trek will be the first film in the franchise in which Paramount has collaborated with other production companies to finance the film. J. J. Abrams' company, Bad Robot Productions, and Bill Todman Jr.'s Level 1 Entertainment are developing the picture alongside Paramount.[58]
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Paramount Studio wanted to ensure that “Star Trek” would enter theaters without any competition to speak of and this move to May 2009 will make that possible. The December slot was proving to turn troublesome with some big openers set for the week of and week before December 25. Abrams and Paramount want Trek to have a big successful opening so that future films for the franchise can be made with some assurance of recouping their investment of time, money and talent. The only real competitor will be “X-Men Orgins: Wolverine,” but it opens one week after Trek’s premiere, giving the space opera a full week of SF revenue before the Jackman film.
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