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investor_group [2016/06/22 22:16] – adds info re: June renter Carlos Pedrazainvestor_group [2020/11/16 13:25] (current) – [Third Name: Industry Studios] Carlos Pedraza
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 ====== Investor Group Plans to Buy Axanar's 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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 {{youtube>kZu8lBtTX9g?small|Trekyards Tour of Axanar's Studio}} \\ {{youtube>kZu8lBtTX9g?small|Trekyards Tour of Axanar's Studio}} \\
-<wrap lo>**TREKYARDS PODCASTER** Stuart Foley takes a tour of "Industry Studios" — Axanar's soundstage and the Ares bridge set.</wrap>+<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>
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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.)) > 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.))
  
-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.+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]].
  
 [{{ ::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.}}] [{{ ::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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 ==== 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. 
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 +<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.
  
-Bawden 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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