Talk:Stargate

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Date	Process	Result
April 8, 2006	Featured topic candidate	Not promoted
November 28, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
October 12, 2009	Good article reassessment	Delisted

Current status: Delisted good article

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Stargate Confusing Rights Debacle

I am confused on who owns what in the stargate franchise:

Carolco Pictures sold off the rights to the film during production^[1], what i cannot figure out is either to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or StudioCanal or to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich?

I do know that Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer^[2] when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day.

MGM retains the domestic television rights. The rights to the Stargate film are owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in international theatrical and worldwide home video releases, although Rialto Pictures handles domestic distribution under license from StudioCanal.

Can anyone please clear this mess up?

References

^ Prince, pp. 148-149.
^ Lee, Patrick (April 16, 2008). "Devlin Develops New Stargates". UK SciFi Networks. Retrieved September 30, 2010.

i think i know about the rights history now

here is what i propose

during Production, Carolco Pictures, the production company who was independatly financing and making the film, sold off the rights to the film to Le Studio Canal+, while they sold the rights to the franchise off to Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich,^[1] ^[2] ^[3] all In an attempt to raise more financing for the projected $90–100 million film, Cutthroat Island. Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day^[4], and MGM retains the domestic television rights. The rights to the Stargate film are owned by StudioCanal, the company who took over and finished production after they bought the rights to the film from carolco with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most distribution in international theatrical and worldwide home video releases, although Rialto Pictures handles domestic distribution under license from StudioCanal. can anyone please add this to the article?

References

^ Prince, pp. 148-149.
^ "'RECALL' IN NEW DIMENSION". Variety. 14 January 1997. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ "Company Town : Carolco May Be Close to Restructuring". LA Times. 14 February 1995. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
^ Lee, Patrick (April 16, 2008). "Devlin Develops New Stargates". UK SciFi Networks. Retrieved September 30, 2010.

Predominant Story Arc

Previously it said: "The predominant story arc thus ran on television for 15 years, including 17 seasons (354 episodes) of programming, and 8 comic book issues as of July 2017." This doesn't include Stargate Origins and leaves out 14 comics by American Mythology Productions. More accurate would be: "The predominant story arc thus ran on television for more than 15 years, including 18 seasons (364 episodes) of programming, and 22 comic book issues as of January 2020." Would love to hear everybody's thoughts. 213.127.126.14 (talk) 22:29, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added title "Interesting Facts"

Hi Wikipedians,

I added the title "Interesting Facts" and noted one interesting fact about frequent references to the Wizard of Oz in the Stargate series. I added a link to fandom, specifically Stargate fandom, because it is the only link that has probably noted that fact. I personally have seen all the episodes and know the lines are true. For some reason the XLinkBot removed it. I reverted it because I thought the link was appropriate in this context. (Jamesfilmbuff (talk) 18:22, 13 March 2020 (UTC))[reply]

WP:USERGENERATED "Wikipedia:Reliable sources: Content from websites whose content is largely user-generated is generally unacceptable." The way I remember this rule is "do not cite a wiki in another wiki" Psypherium^{talk page} 12:18, 27 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wormhole/Einstein-Rosen Bridge

I added wormhole - that's what it's called in the movie and TV show. 2607:FB91:19AE:8A3:193:7ABC:B894:179 (talk) 14:54, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Prince, pp. 148-149.

[newstargatefilmfromorg-2] Lee, Patrick (April 16, 2008). "Devlin Develops New Stargates". UK SciFi Networks. Retrieved September 30, 2010.

[3] Prince, pp. 148-149.

[4] "'RECALL' IN NEW DIMENSION". Variety. 14 January 1997. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

[5] "Company Town : Carolco May Be Close to Restructuring". LA Times. 14 February 1995. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

[newstargatefilmfromorg-6] Lee, Patrick (April 16, 2008). "Devlin Develops New Stargates". UK SciFi Networks. Retrieved September 30, 2010.

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Stargate Confusing Rights Debacle

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i think i know about the rights history now

References

Predominant Story Arc

Added title "Interesting Facts"

Wormhole/Einstein-Rosen Bridge