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-====== Investor Group Plans to Buy 'Ares Studio' Assets ======+====== Investor Group Plans to Buy Axanar's Studio Assets ======
  
-<wrap lo>//See also: [[Axanar myths]]//</wrap>+<wrap lo>See also: //[[studio_ownership|Another Company Emerges in Axanar Studio Ownership]]// and //[[industry_studios|Twisted Path to Discover Axanar's Studio Ownership]]// and //[[Axanar Myths]]//</wrap>
  
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-===== Axanar Begins Marketing Valkyrie Studios ===== +===== Third Name: Industry Studios =====
-[{{ ::valkyrie-flyer.jpg?nolink&200|**ARES NO MORE** This flyer marks an apparent re-branding of the former Ares Studios built in a warehouse leased by Axanar for production to its Star Trek feature.}}]+
  
-<wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> MAY 12, 2016 — Axanar appears to have re-branded its soundstage and production facilities, now marketing the property for rental as Valkyrie Studios.+<WRAP right box 300px> 
 +{{youtube>kZu8lBtTX9g?small|Trekyards Tour of Axanar's Studio}} \\ 
 +<wrap lo>**TREKYARDS PODCASTER** Stuart Foley takes a tour of Axanar's soundstage and set. He has since removed this video from YouTube but AxaMonitor obtained this copy.</wrap> 
 +</WRAP> 
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 +<wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> JUNE 16, 2016 — Axanar appears to have re-branded its soundstage and production facilities for a third time, naming the property Industry Studios. 
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 +In a "Captain's Log" video recorded during a visit to the studio, Trekyards podcaster Stuart Foley noted the name change: 
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 +> Ares Studios, Industry Studios, I keep having to correct myself. … They changed it to Valkyrie Studios, and they didn't like that name, so they changed it to Industry Studios. Long story about that. Alec kind of filled us in on that.(([[http://youtu.be/kZu8lBtTX9g|"Captains Log - Stardate: 201606.14 - Axanar Bridge and Vasquez Rocks," Trekyards YouTube Channel]], 6/15/16.)) 
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 +Though Foley's video doesn't go on to explain why Peters changed the name of the facility, the property is located on Industry Drive in Valencia, Calif. Foley later removed the video, part of an apparent effort to distance himself from Peters in the year following the end of the [[lawsuit]]. 
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 +[{{ ::valkyrie-flyer.jpg?nolink&200|**ARES NO MORE** This flyer marks Axanar's first re-branding of the former Ares Studios built in a warehouse leased by Axanar for production to its Star Trek feature.}}] 
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 +===== Second Iteration: Valkyrie Studios ===== 
 + 
 +MAY 12 — Axanar appeared to have re-branded its soundstage and production facilities, marketing the property for rental as Valkyrie Studios. 
 + 
 +An advertisement on the rear cover of the playbill for the [[http://www.sci-fest.com|Sci-Fest LA]] one-act play festival last week touted the features offered at Axanar's facility:
  
-A flyer distributed at the Sci-Fest LA film festival last week touted the features offered at Axanar's facility:+> Whether you're looking for a place to shoot a commercial, a promotional piece, <wrap hi>a fan production,</wrap> a TV show or a small feature film, you'll want to check out all the amenities that Valkyrie Studios in Valencia, California, has to offer.((Valkyrie Studio advertisement, Sci-Fest LA playbill, retrieved 5/12/16.)) <wrap lo>[//emphasis added//]</wrap>
  
-> Whether you're looking for a place to shoot a commercial, a promotional piece, <wrap hi>a fan production,</wrap> a TV show or a small feature film, you'll want to check out all the amenities that Valkyrie Studios in Valencia, California, has to offer.((Valkyrie Studio promotional flyer, retrieved 5/12/16.)) <wrap lo>[//emphasis added//]</wrap>+Axanar producer [[Alec Peters]] sits on the board of directors of Sci-Fest LA,(([[http://www.sci-fest.com/#!about/cog5|Board of Directors, Sci-Fest LA website]], retrieved 5/16/16.)) which also planned to screen //Prelude to Axanar// as part of its festival on May 21.(([[http://www.sci-fest.com/#!short-films/m7wwv|"Short Films," Sci-Fest LA website]], retrieved 5/16/16.))
  
-A week before, in a Facebook post, producer [[Alec Peters]] announced that the studio, built with funds donors intended for production of //Axanar//, would begin to be rented in June.+In a Facebook post in early May, Peters announced that the studio, built with funds donors intended for production of //Axanar//, would begin to be rented in June. On the June 22, 2016, episode of the Indie Apocalypse podcast, Peters claimed the renter was "a major production for one of the cable channels."(([[http://bzpmedia.podbean.com/e/the-troubles-with-trekkers-indie-apocalypse/?token=0e428174bec10bd3111a28079b58ecc0|Alec Peters on Indie Apocalypse podcast, "The Trouble with Trekkers]], 6/22/16.))
  
 ==== Shifting Domains ==== ==== Shifting Domains ====
  
-The domain name indicated in Valkyrie Studios flyer, valkyriestudios.la, was registered on February 29, about two weeks before the announcement of the asset transfer. The domain name was not yet associated with a website, but a May 12 reverse IP search indicated it was part of a family of domain names owned by Alec Peters, including ares.studio, aresstudios.net and galileorestoration.com.+The domain name indicated in the Valkyrie Studios advertisement, valkyriestudios.la, was registered on February 29, about two weeks before the announcement of the asset transfer. The domain name was not yet associated with a website, but a May 12 reverse IP search indicated it was part of a family of domain names owned by Alec Peters, including ares.studio, aresstudios.net and galileorestoration.com.
  
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-<wrap lo>**HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW** On May 12, a reverse DNS lookup revealed Valkyrie Studios' domain was hosted at the same IP address as other Peters-related domains. By morning May 13, following **AxaMonitor**'s publication, the new studio's domain pointed somewhere else.(([[http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=valkyriestudios.la|Reverse IP lookup]], retrieved 5/12/16, and again 5/13/16.)) //Click image to view full-size.//</wrap>+<wrap lo>**HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW** On May 12, a reverse IP lookup revealed Valkyrie Studios' domain was hosted at the same IP address as other Peters-related domains. By morning May 13, following **AxaMonitor**'s publication, the new studio's domain pointed somewhere else.(([[http://reverseip.domaintools.com/search/?q=valkyriestudios.la|Reverse IP lookup]], retrieved 5/12/16, and again 5/13/16.)) //Click image to view full-size.//</wrap>
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 > Yeah, not an issue. We will be renting out the studio starting next month.(([[face>StarTrekAxanar/posts/963215927126264?comment_id=963288443785679&reply_comment_id=963315977116259&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Alec Peters post on Star Trek Axanar Facebook group]], 5/5/16.)) > Yeah, not an issue. We will be renting out the studio starting next month.(([[face>StarTrekAxanar/posts/963215927126264?comment_id=963288443785679&reply_comment_id=963315977116259&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Alec Peters post on Star Trek Axanar Facebook group]], 5/5/16.))
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 ==== The Future of Axanar's Production ==== ==== The Future of Axanar's Production ====
  
-A formal announcement about the rental and the //Axanar// production, he said in the May 5 Facebook thread, was to come shortly.(([[face>StarTrekAxanar/posts/963215927126264?comment_id=963288443785679&reply_comment_id=963315977116259&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Alec Peters post on Star Trek Axanar Facebook group]], 5/5/16.))+A formal announcement about the rental and the //Axanar// production, he said in the May 5 Facebook thread, was to come shortly.(([[face>StarTrekAxanar/posts/963215927126264?comment_id=963288443785679&reply_comment_id=963315977116259&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D|Alec Peters post on Star Trek Axanar Facebook group]], 5/5/16.)) As of July 2017, that announcement had yet to come.
  
 ==== Peters: 'No Comment' on Investor Group Membership ==== ==== Peters: 'No Comment' on Investor Group Membership ====
  
-APR. 3 — Peters refused to say whether he is a member of the private investment group that wants to buy the Ares Studios assets, but also claimed in an interview today he has no asset to sell.+Peters refused to say whether he is a member of the private investment group that wants to buy the Ares Studios assets, but also claimed in an April 3, 2016, interview he had no asset to sell. 
 + 
 +<wrap lo>See also: //[[studio_ownership|Another Company Emerges in Axanar Studio Ownership]]//</wrap>
  
 Two weeks previous, he had [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mythbusters-debunking-three-misconceptions-about-axanar-productions/|announced a sale]] pegged by his spokesman, [[Mike Bawden]] at around $400,000, that would provide funding to his cash-strapped production. Two weeks previous, he had [[http://www.axanarproductions.com/mythbusters-debunking-three-misconceptions-about-axanar-productions/|announced a sale]] pegged by his spokesman, [[Mike Bawden]] at around $400,000, that would provide funding to his cash-strapped production.
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 **AxaMonitor** asked Axanar spokesman Bawden if Peters or any other Axanar principal is a member of the investors group or has some tangential financial interest in its activities moving forward, such as break on studio rent, priority on use of facility, continued housing of Axanar and Propworx offices, or anything else. **AxaMonitor** asked Axanar spokesman Bawden if Peters or any other Axanar principal is a member of the investors group or has some tangential financial interest in its activities moving forward, such as break on studio rent, priority on use of facility, continued housing of Axanar and Propworx offices, or anything else.
  
-Bowden said Peters had no comment at this time.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 3/30/16.)) However, in a video interview with the Australian news site, TREKZONE.org, released April 3, Peters expanded on the topic:+Bawden said Peters had no comment at that time.((Email from Mike Bawden to AxaMonitor editor Carlos Pedraza, 3/30/16.)) However, in a video interview with the Australian news site, TREKZONE.org, released April 3, Peters expanded on the topic:
  
 > I'm not going to talk about that until we release all that information to the donors. Let's be very clear: People say we built a for-profit studio. Totally false. There is basically a building that has two years left on its lease. Someone needs to pay for that. An asset is something tangible that is worth money that you can go out and sell. We have no such asset.(([[https://youtu.be/ZcPjJKzRdK4|Alec Peters interview, TREKZONE Spotlight YouTube Channel]], 4/3/16.)) > I'm not going to talk about that until we release all that information to the donors. Let's be very clear: People say we built a for-profit studio. Totally false. There is basically a building that has two years left on its lease. Someone needs to pay for that. An asset is something tangible that is worth money that you can go out and sell. We have no such asset.(([[https://youtu.be/ZcPjJKzRdK4|Alec Peters interview, TREKZONE Spotlight YouTube Channel]], 4/3/16.))
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 +However, there appeared to be something of value in the studio, as Peters went on to offer a 2 percent stake in it to former chief technologist [[Terry McIntosh]] in May 2016 in exchange for McIntosh's [[Ares Digital]] software, which was intended to fulfill perks from the crowdfunding campaigns, but [[ares_digital_update|utterly failed]]. McIntosh turned down the offer, saying the investment was [[axanar_finances|too speculative]] to be worth the value of the software.
  
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