Good news (probibly)

POSTED BY: Alucard
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ALUCARD

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:48 AM

Probably

I realized something if the Serenity gets good sales at the box office odds are someone will pick up the series. So the point of this post is to tell you to see the movie many times :)

THEGREYJEDI

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:08 AM

From my understanding, Fox owns the TV rights for a few more years. A number of years equal to allowing a possible three movies. After that, Universal could very well pick up the series and put it on the Sci-Fi channel, which is owned by Universal.

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PUMAMANREDUX

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 6:25 AM

The TV rights are apparently held for up to 10 years so we'll likely get movies ... fans can hope for a renegotiation of contracts if all goes really well ...

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ALUCARD

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:53 AM

but fox will most likly sell them for cheap to sci fi even if the movie bombs sci fi buts on many unpopular shows

PUMAMANREDUX

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:24 PM

Theres a lot of talk on the Firefly fan boards (not only here at fff.net) about the possibility of a return to series TV for Firefly ...

Would be nice if it happened

BUT

here at

http://forums.prospero.com/foxfirefly/messages?msg=19228.216

is a post in thread that describes the situation a little ...

>>Sorry if someone has already brought this up, but wasn't his deal with 20th part of what was precluding the possibility of Firefly returning to television upon the conclusion of successful BDMs? I would think... and I could be wrong, that this would actually help that possibility along a little.

I don't think so. There are two deals with 20th.

1) A long-term development deal for Joss to make new shows in exchange for money and office space.

2) The deals where 20th owns the already developed Firefly, Buffy, and Angel.

Deal #1 is ending, but deal #2 is what is precluding a FF return. 20th sold Universal the movie rights and part of the deal is no FF on TV for so many years.

Additionally, Jewel Staite said at a Con that 20th isn't interested right now in bringing FF back to TV. And why would they be? Joss tried hard to shop it around and the DVD sales probably still aren't good enough by ratings standards (but fortunately are good enough by movie standards).

Plus, before Buffy, Joss wanted to make movies. That didn't work out as he'd hoped, and he went to TV. Then he fell in love with the character development of weekly series. He may spend years doing movies, but I'm sure he'll come back to TV some day.

Hope that helps.

Ying

>> Mike
oh .. official word from Joss Whedon's plans for the immediate future is archived here http://www.greatlink.org/dcisV2.asp?url=http://www.greatlink.org/shown
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JADEHAND

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:34 PM

Also, of note:
Universal also owns NBC. And, not sure when that 10 year period began. If it began after cancelation then that leaves 7-8 years of no FF TV series. Which coicidentially leaves just about enough time for 2-3(Why stop at a trilogy?) more films.

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AURAPTOR

Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:26 PM

Just gimmie my 3 movies! After that, it'll all be gravy!

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VETERAN

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 3:15 AM

TheGreyJedi Wrote:

Quote:
..Fox owns the TV rights for a few more years. A number of years equal to allowing a possible three movies. After that, Universal could very well pick up the series and put it on the Sci-Fi channel, which is owned by Universal.

I like your way of thinking

FFYING2

Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by PumamanRedux:
here at

http://forums.prospero.com/foxfirefly/messages?msg=19228.216

is a post in thread that describes the situation a little ...

>>Sorry if someone has already brought this up, but wasn't his deal with 20th part of what was precluding the possibility of Firefly returning to television upon the conclusion of successful BDMs? I would think... and I could be wrong, that this would actually help that possibility along a little.

I don't think so. There are two deals with 20th.

1) A long-term development deal for Joss to make new shows in exchange for money and office space.

2) The deals where 20th owns the already developed Firefly, Buffy, and Angel.

Deal #1 is ending, but deal #2 is what is precluding a FF return. 20th sold Universal the movie rights and part of the deal is no FF on TV for so many years.

Additionally, Jewel Staite said at a Con that 20th isn't interested right now in bringing FF back to TV. And why would they be? Joss tried hard to shop it around and the DVD sales probably still aren't good enough by ratings standards (but fortunately are good enough by movie standards).

Plus, before Buffy, Joss wanted to make movies. That didn't work out as he'd hoped, and he went to TV. Then he fell in love with the character development of weekly series. He may spend years doing movies, but I'm sure he'll come back to TV some day.

Hope that helps.

Ying

I disagree; Firefly will be back on the air next fall.

Who does that guy think he is, anyway? I think he's me, but that's between me and my mind.

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