Serenity's Visual FX supervisor is optimistic, and says the movie's low box-office take was not unexpected.
Keep your fingers crossed!
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Serenity's Visual FX supervisor is optimistic, and says the movie's low box-office take was not unexpected.
Keep your fingers crossed!
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Who do we write to get it done?
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Buy the DVD, that's better that any writing you can do.
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Done. And Serenity twice. Long story.
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Which you already told elsewhere.Originally Posted by The Supreme Canuck
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Reductionist and proud of it.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. Mark Twain
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Yep. No need to repeat that one.
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Well, the first time he told it full-screen, but maybe now he'll tell it widescreen.
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The SciFi Wire interview is being reviewed skeptically over on the Browncoats forum and Whedonesque. Apparently the DVD charts don't back up what Loni Peristere had to say, but then again they don't seem to back up what they say themselves -- every single one of them is pretty much in conflict with all the rest. So who knows? And who knows what kind of standards Universal set on the movie to make it worth their while to produce another one.
Frankly, I think the future of Firefly/Serenity rests on Joss Whedon's other works. He hasn't really done anything to make John Q. Public care, and not all of us were in any way fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In fact, when I learned that he was the Buffy guy, I didn't really know what to think: Serenity appealed to me greatly, and I was just blown away by how someone could write one thing that was so totally my thing, and something else that was so totally not. Having his name attached solely to Buffy and Angel probably isn't the best thing from a marketing standpoint, since he already has a dedicated fan base, and "Buffy" just doesn't reach out to people who aren't a part of it.
Over the next couple of years, the studio will figure out just who this guy is, and how to market him, and in doing so they'll figure out how to market Serenity. I think a good first step would be to release the gorram collectors tins outside of Australia, but that's just me and my tin envy.
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In the strange world of Hollywood accounting, a movie is considered profitable if it grosses 3x what it took to make it (I don't know the rational behind this). Serenity took $40 million to produce. It made $35 million in world-wide box office. I don't know how well the DVD is doing, dollar-wise.
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Well I liked Buffy and Angel, which did make me raise an eyebrow when I saw he was connected with Firefly (it was introduced with his name at the top, but at the time I had no idea who he was). Still, having seen a lot of Buffy and Angel since seeing Firefly, it's much more obvious to me now.
I got the impression that both the Serenity and Firefly box sets were doing rather well in DVD sales. I know the box set has been a top 10 seller since the movie, and the movie quickly joined the box set once it was available.
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I know for a fact that the low box office takes here in Göteborg, Sweden, are a result of the short run the movie had. I was at the preview, and would have gone again - we did a Firefly binge and were going to schedule a Serenity night too but found out it had stopped showing before we had the chance. Pity.
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Slightly off topic...
Well, I don't know how this impacts sales, but our cable company is offering the entire Firefly series in 3 episode "chunks" for 2.99 each.
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It's quite likely that the short run was itself a result of the low box office take.
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Anybody have any idea what this is all about?
(Besides the obvious, I mean. Are these folks for real?)
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Fans with delusions of grandeurAnybody have any idea what this is all about?
(Besides the obvious, I mean. Are these folks for real?)
As a Trekkie and such from way back, I've encountered this sort of stuff over and over again. I've never seen it amount to anything.
Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.
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ID prefer to see a continuation of the series.
The stories can be far richer and more enjoyable in the long run.
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Whedon Confirms No Serenity Sequel
http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/5253
"There's no sequel, no secret project regarding Serenity or somesuch and I'm not even sure how anyone thought there was talk there. I've seen Nathan and Tim (and Summer and Alan) recently because they're my friends because I'm so, yeah, awesome. So let's put that to bed and smother it with a pillow."
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Or, perhaps, a consequence of a low anticipated box office take. If a studio really wants people to go and see a movie, it markets the hell out of it, and people do go and see it (if only to contibute their own opinion when all their friends / colleagues are talking about it).
It's quite likely that the short run was itself a result of the low box office take.
Several times, I've read of a movie that did not do so well, where the studio describe it as unprofitable, and I realise that I've seen no advertising for the movie.
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It didn't even play here, and Kansas City isn't THAT small. I soooo wanted to see it on a big screen. I guess I'm part of the low box office take since I didn't drive 250 miles (or more) to a city that did play it...
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Or the show, for that matter. It did incredibly well for a show/movie whose executives appeared to be bent on sabotaging (as opposed to the less malignant mismanaging*) from day one. It'd be interesting to know how much those "grandes poches" made for doing sweet Richard all.
(* Malice or incompetance? You pick. I don't know which choice depresses me less.)
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On one hand, I think "My God. Even "Blair Witch" got a sequel!"
But, in the long view, in a way I rather like where it left off: with our plucky hero riding off into the infinite, and no chance for things to get all Jar-Jar'd up. Instead, it finishes as one of the greatest sci-fi tales ever told.
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On one hand, I think "My God. Even "Blair Witch" got a sequel!"
But, in the long view, in a way I rather like where it left off: with our plucky hero riding off into the infinite, and no chance for things to get all Jar-Jar'd up. Instead, it finishes as one of the greatest sci-fi tales ever told.
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Uhhhh, I saw it at the Barrywoods 24 in Kansas City, twice.
You gotta move up to the Northland, you know, Gods Country.
It was in the big room first time, 500 plus capacity. I had plenty of room to spread out. Next week I saw it in one of the off fooms that sit a little under 100 and I was there with 3 others. Then again, I was getting off work at 11 in the morning, so it's not really movie going time for most folks.
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Anybody want more rumors?
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Now there is a rumour that needs to be substantiated
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There is another rumor that I heard that says Joss will write a comic series continuing the tale of the Serenity. It's supposed to be after a "big score" and the crews difficulties after they are no longer "small fish in a big 'Verse"
Given the success of Buffy: Season 8, and the confirmed coming of Angel: After the Fall I would definatly says this had some merit.
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When I saw the header "More Firefly", my gut response was "yes, please!"
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To quote the lolcoon: "Really REALLY WANT."
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Now I'll have to pay attention just to see how they pull off the confrontation from the end of the TV series. If they had continued with that series, I fully expected that at the start of the next season, they would have shown the slayer army on the other side of the demon horde. I think I'd be annoyed if they handled it any other way.
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