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+ | <wrap lo>**THE STUDIO** //that donors built: Axanar' | ||
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VALENCIA, Calif. — In a tragic coda to OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]]' | VALENCIA, Calif. — In a tragic coda to OWC Studios head [[Alec Peters]]' | ||
- | Danny Luh, 54, a well-known businessman in the Santa Clarita Valley, had posted a video on Instagram in December, appealing to his friends to help find a buyer or tenant for the building Peters abandoned unable to keep up payments on his three-year lease after sinking nearly three-quarters of a million dollars to turn the facility into a commercial studio. | + | Danny Luh, 54, a well-known businessman in the Santa Clarita Valley, had posted a video on Instagram in December, appealing to his friends to help find a buyer or tenant for the building Peters |
===== Abandoned Studio ===== | ===== Abandoned Studio ===== | ||
- | That money had all come from the million-dollar-plus [[crowdfunding_platforms|crowdfunding]] campaigns that were supposed to have paid for the //Axanar// feature film. Instead, Peters spent that money elsewhere without a single frame of //Axanar// ever being shot in what was once known as [[Industry Studios]]. | + | [{{ :: |
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+ | That money had all come from the million-dollar-plus [[crowdfunding_platforms|crowdfunding]] campaigns that were supposed to have paid for the //Axanar// feature film. Instead, Peters spent that money elsewhere without a single frame of //Axanar// ever being shot inside | ||
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==== The End of Industry Studios ==== | ==== The End of Industry Studios ==== | ||
- | The commercial studio had gone through various names during Peters' | + | The commercial studio had gone through various names during Peters' |
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> "The studio is the endgame. The idea is we create a studio that we can then [use to] produce our own original content, our own movies." | > "The studio is the endgame. The idea is we create a studio that we can then [use to] produce our own original content, our own movies." | ||
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=== Failed Indiegogo to Save Studio === | === Failed Indiegogo to Save Studio === | ||
- | Peters appealed to his vaunted 15,000 Axanar supporters to donate $200,000 to put the foundering Industry Studios on solid financial footing. Barely more than 300 contributed $22,020 to the failed effort. Peters instead [[moving survey|diverted those funds]] to pay for moving Axanar Productions' | + | Peters appealed to his vaunted 15,000 Axanar supporters to donate $200,000 to put the foundering Industry Studios on solid financial footing. Barely more than 300 contributed $22,020 to the failed effort. Peters instead [[moving survey|diverted those funds]] to pay for moving Axanar Productions' |
=== Silencing Dissent === | === Silencing Dissent === | ||
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After losing the California studio, Peters nonetheless assured his donors that he'd struck a favorable deal with Luh. As explained in his surrogate' | After losing the California studio, Peters nonetheless assured his donors that he'd struck a favorable deal with Luh. As explained in his surrogate' | ||
- | > Alec gets to break his lease eight months early with no financial or legal penalty. Industry Studios will continue on with the same name and identity (possibly even some of the same people) and honor its commitment to the fan productions //Personal Space// and //Cholo vs. Vampires// to use the facility. When the time comes to film //Axanar//, Alec and his team will be able to make use of Industry Studios (and that giant green screen and lighting grid).((Jonathan Lane, [[https:// | + | > Alec gets to break his lease eight months early with no financial or legal penalty. Industry Studios will continue on with the same name and identity (possibly even some of the same people) and honor its commitment to the fan productions //Personal Space// and //Cholo vs. Vampires// to use the facility. When the time comes to film //Axanar//, Alec and his team will be able to make use of Industry Studios (and that giant green screen and lighting grid).((Jonathan Lane, [[https:// |
==== The Aftermath ==== | ==== The Aftermath ==== | ||
- | Luh shed the Industry Studios name and identity pretty quickly after Peters vacated the premises. And Peters' | + | Luh shed the Industry Studios name and identity pretty quickly after Peters vacated the premises. And Peters' |
=== No California Shoot for Axanar Lite? === | === No California Shoot for Axanar Lite? === | ||
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When he announced Axanar was abandoning California, Peters tried to reassure donors by claiming Luh had promised to reimburse him, upon successfully renting, selling or leasing the warehouse, for at least some of donors' | When he announced Axanar was abandoning California, Peters tried to reassure donors by claiming Luh had promised to reimburse him, upon successfully renting, selling or leasing the warehouse, for at least some of donors' | ||
- | > Axanar will be reimbursed for some of the build out we did. The details of this will be worked out, but Danny wants us to leave the lighting grid and the power upgrades as they are essential to making the facility work as a functioning commercial sound stage. And of course, while we can’t take build out such as the green screen or the office space we built, Danny sees the value of what we put into the studio and will help us all out in the long run.(([[http:// | + | > Axanar will be reimbursed for some of the build out we did. The details of this will be worked out, but Danny wants us to leave the lighting grid and the power upgrades as they are essential to making the facility work as a functioning commercial sound stage. And of course, while we can’t take build out [// |
- | At the time, Peters never produced any documentation about the reimbursement, | + | At the time, Peters never produced any documentation about Luh's promised |
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