He shouldn’t be allowed to work at the bridge with his attitude.

That the movies where not paramount to the success of SGU, and then after his awful show was pulled (very low ratings)he then starts babbling and gushing how the 2 movies where tantamount to the success of SGU.

It’s important to understand that the straight to DVD franchise as zero bearing on how well some television show does (in this case SGU has no bearing on SG-1 or Atlantis). There fore by common logic and the sales of both SG-1 movies…the idea that SGU is a sign of the times with gate fans is completely and utterly false indeed.

What one has to remember here, is that the movies (DVD) have no impact on how well a completely unrelated show does on TV .

Take this analogy. There are 3 TV shows, 1 of them as now gone straight to DVD instead of out right canceled. Show B is canceled because the producers hated working on it…and they bring out show C.

Very few people liked show C, so very people watch show C. MGM in it’s ultimate stupidity then decides that Show A which is just as popular as it was in it’s 11th season (box sets numbers)..and sold extremely well on it’s straight to DVD to cancel any further movies based entirely on show C’s performance. Sounds absolutely retarded doesn’t it? And it should sound retarded because thats not how you do successful business. You don’t take your popular selling items and ditch them for an untried product, which turns out to be absolute crap…and we can absolutely apply to Stargate.

The movies have no bearing on any thing that happens at the Bridge, no matter any of them say.

Business is business, and it’s easy to that away from studios like the Bridge and move it else where.

So folks don’t panic about no movies..it would be financially retarded not have them. It isn’t syfy who pays for the production of these movies its MGM, and the offset the cost on international and domestic sales of both the broadcast rights and the DVD sales.

We’d have to wait for cast members to finish their individual projects anyway. Some of the actors are on special guest appearances…and non have their own shows (even if they did, it would hardly take forever to commit to something they want to do). It’s not as if the actors have said I want nothing to do with Gate movies in the future.

Jason Momoa has said he doesn’t want to work on Atlantis anymore…big deal..move on.

I am still very confident these movies will go ahead. Unless it’s MGM saying no gate movies…then ignore everything those monkey nuts say over at the bridge.

Please keep us informed!!

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I am a fan of SG1 and SGA, not so much of SGU. The SYFI Channel programing choices is a prime example of purposeful choices resulting in a slow and gradual systematic failure. The end result will be disillusion of the SYFI Channel all together. At one time in the not so distance past the SYFI Channel occupied probably thirty percent of my viewing time and almost a one hundred percent of my viewing time on Friday nights. Due to the programing changes, I seldom watch the SYFI Channel and mostly watch DVD sets of SG1, SGA, and BSG in order to feed my SYFI appetite.

Reality is relative and in the case of successful programing it’s the reality of the customer base that matters and no so much the elective choices of management. The SYFI Channel management needs to step into the reality of the fan base or remain in their reality that will result in less market share and failure of the channel in total. How about stepping “back to the future”, SYFI Channel management? Let me be clear, get back to your namesake SYFI, and provide what your customer base is asking for.

Sets are as easy to construct as they are to destroy. As for the gates being sold. They where the older SG-1 gates that where used pre season 8.

Sure other stuff was sold off and got rid off, but lets be honest for a minute and reflect on how easy it is to put it all back together.

I remember a while back a statement from the Bridge categorically stating that MGM had demanded they keep most of the Atlantis sets standing. You can allude to whatever you want about them making them keep those sets up.

However on a recent visit to the Bridge Studios (9 months ago), a number of the Atlantis sets where still in place and standing, including the main gate, they had just shifted it off to another stage.

MGM have to pay top wack to keep those sets up. Interestingly in the last couple of weeks MGM have told the execs to tear down the SGU sets. The show won’t be resold to another network and it most definitely will not be picked back up again after being canceled. No matter how much noise that sad lying fuckwit Mallozzi makes.

Stargate is a major franchise to MGM, and is a big profit maker to them. Look at the continuing sales of box sets of Atlantis and SG-1 and even the movies after the show was canned to see what I mean.

There is plenty of life left in the young pup yet (gate franchise).

Right now people need to let Mallozzi babble and gush as much shit as he wants coz at the end of the day no one cares.

MGM is now going through the finer details or being bought by another company (while retaining the movie and tv show rights). Which is a good thing. The Hobbit has been picked back up in recent weeks, and word from some people at the MGM studios is that the gate movies will get picked up at some stage this year. They cannot afford to keep the gate off the smallscreen, or they loose fans..common sense really.

So I think people need to stop worrying about what those tools at the Bridge think..coz at the end of the day MGM can quite easily snatch it back away from them.

You bet there are other companies out there, who’d snatch your nuts off to get the gate franchise…so it dont matter. Gate is not in the mess Trek was when Les Moonves shit on on it at CBS during season. The Gate despite SGU, is just as healthy as it has always been to be honest. You leave it too late and people will walk away and find another franchise to go with…MGM know this and thats why I can see both movies being greenlit and put into production this year.

Since Joseph Mallozzi is not the decision maker in Stargate (that would be Brad Wright), it is provable that Brad never gave any go-ahead for any progress on any Atlantis movie. So, Joe is LYING about any movie being shelved because it was never on the table. Only the Extinction script was completed in September of 2008, and nothing else about it has made any progress since then. Now, the sets are dismantled too, and they have been that way since the new SGU sets built on that stage were put up for season 2 of SGU.

Very interesting thread here: http://forums.sgusucks.com/showthread.php/1393-The-Atlantis-movie-was-NEVER-going-to-be-made-so-how-could-a-hold-have-been-put-on-it

All the proof is there. The proof is all over Joe’s blog as well as the Stargate Wiki. The Atlantis movie was NEVER going to be made by these showrunners.

-Nobody.

The movies haven’t ever had anything to do with not being made due to some tv network.

You need to understand how these things work. Movies (inc straight to DVD) are funded entirely by the Studio not by any tv network. SyFy as a tv network funded the entire tv series. They then sell those rights around the world and make profit from it usually. In this case there are networks around the world who have already canceled this crapola show..there by syfy loose more money.

TV Movies (dvd) / Theatrical Movies = funded entirely by the studio (MGM)
TV Shows are entirely funded by the television network, they pay for the license to both show and make new series.

MGM are in debt to a tune of $4.8 Billion dollars..the only lies that where told, where by the misinformed or ignorant. We have known about this issue now for the last couple of years.

MGM are coming out of bankruptcy after they struck a deal with a judge so they could be sold, and keep their own stock. That means the Hobbit is now officially back in pre production…the stargate movies? lets get them another 6 months to see where they are at.

TV gate? I don’t think MGM would let them loose on the franchise anymore, after the near murdering of the franchise.

The only fans that SGU had where the terminally stupid..and they don’t matter anyway…they’ll all piss off back to faggy 90210 or what ever girly show they love anyway…thank god

However I can see them giving up the license before long. They have shown they have no business savvy nor care about the franchise.

SG-1 season 10 was actually just ahead of Atlantis before they canceled it. SG-1 was over 2.5 million viewers not including other markets such as pvr..remember pvr these days does a whole lot better than live..Atlantis was at the 1.6million numbers and climbing…SGU was at 1.2 million on prem then declined quite rapidly.

They could and technically should bring Atlantis back for another couple of seasons tbh, market on replays is still very much there…the actors want it, its upto syfy to bring it back…so get out there and start campaigning to get it back on the air…now they canned SGU and with a swift strong campaign we can force their hand to get it back to the tv screen..but we have to ensure those tools at syfy listen to us!