You dont realise how many Firefly/Serenity are out there OR Serenity is so gonna to kick Star Wars' ass!

POSTED BY: bobnsam
UPDATED: Saturday, May 7, 2005 04:47
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BOBNSAM

Friday, April 29, 2005 10:28 AM

You just dont realise in the UK how many fans are out there.... this is the end part of an email that has gone out to everyone in the UK who is registered to http://shop.game.net/ - one of our top games stores.

Check out that last line! hahahahahaha I am also a big star wars fan - but thats fantastic!

OTHER RELEASES THIS WEEK
Other releases of note this week are TT Superbikes and Haunting Ground on PS2, Close Combat: First To Fight and SpikeOut: Battlestreet on Xbox, Close Combat: First To Fight, Guild Wars and Cold Fear on PC and Star Fox Assault on GameCube!
You can see all of this week's releases here.

Have a great week!
Jonny Austin

PS. Serenity is so gonna to kick Star Wars' ass!

FRAY101

Friday, April 29, 2005 10:40 AM

I'm a big Star Wars fan too, but am 99.9% 9and the rest) certain that the Serenity screenplay will knock it for six when it comes to well-drawn characters, wit etc.

Think we can only dream about those box office takings though...

"Why would I want to leave Serenity?"
"Can't think of a reason."

http://disneypix.tripod.com/destiny

GWENHARKER

Friday, April 29, 2005 12:43 PM

Regaurdless of whether or not Serenity is better, SW III is the end of an era. It's spanned two/possibly three generations of fans. It's firmly affixed in our pop culture. There is just no possible way Serenity could beat that $_ _ _,000,000 figure number.

Unless we all watched the movie 10 times and got all our friends and family and annoying next door neighbors to see it 10 times.

I can dream though :) Maybe for the second movie we'll beat it.

RKLENSETH

Friday, April 29, 2005 1:46 PM

We'll win, we'll win. Look at what is happening to Serenity now. Plus, Serenity doesn't seem to fit into a demographic of people. The new Star Wars falls into the young teenage type. Old fans of the series are either alienated so much that they probably won't see it right away.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

GWEK

Friday, April 29, 2005 2:16 PM

Even though lots of folks complain about the new movies, I'm pretty sure the demographic for Star Wars is folks in their 30s/early 40s (who grew up with the original series) rather than young teens (who have only the new ones).

Why is it necessary for it to be a competition? Personally, I like both, and one of the reasons I love "Firefly" is because it reminds me of the Star Wars I grew up with.

Why can't we all just get along?

Realistically, unless Universal pulls off some marketing coup, there's no way "Serenity" is going to match the money that Episode III makes, so it's not a fair competition at this point.

Consider 1999 and 2002: In 1999, Episode I was the top gossing film of the year ($431M), with Sixth Sense ($293M) and Austin Powers II ($205M)at 2nd and 3rd place respectively. The Matrix ($171M) and The Mummy ($155M) came in at 5th and 8th place. I suspect that Serenity will be "a modest hit" like those two movies (which certainly ain't a bad thing), unless it can generate the amout of buzz that Sixth Sense and AP2 had.

In 2002, Episode II came in 3rd for the year, grossing only $310M (which, I think, makes it the lowest to date), losing out to Spider-Man and Two Towers ($403M and $340M, respectively). Harry Potter 2 came in 4th ($261M). With the exception of Spider-Man, all of these are sequels, so I don't think Serenity, unfortunately, would have been able to compete in that year either.

Unless Universal pulls out all the stops, I don't see Serenity having a chance to compete financially... but it doesn't need to. It just needs to do well enough to spawn sequels that will make lots of $$$.

FIREFLYGAL

Friday, April 29, 2005 2:18 PM

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Originally posted by GwenHarker:
Regaurdless of whether or not Serenity is better, SW III is the end of an era. It's spanned two/possibly three generations of fans. It's firmly affixed in our pop culture. There is just no possible way Serenity could beat that $_ _ _,000,000 figure number.

Unless we all watched the movie 10 times and got all our friends and family and annoying next door neighbors to see it 10 times.

I can dream though :) Maybe for the second movie we'll beat it.

..and what's the problem seeing it 10 times?

I'm planning to BUY a ticket to every show the first 2 weekends... and thereafter, who knows.

I aim to misbehave!

FRAY101

Friday, April 29, 2005 2:24 PM

Come on everyone, calm down - there's not a hope in hell that Serenity (or for that matter any other film, well maybe Batman...and War of the Worlds and...?) will match Episode III's takings. That's just common sense.

But that's not to say we can't all be really excited that there seems to be so much enthusiasm on line, particuarly in the post-Trailer frenzy! Hopefully Serenity will be a much greater financial success than was first anticipated and Firefly will get to live on in one format or another.

Besides, as one of those early 30-somethings referred to above, I really need Episode III to be a good film....!

"Why would I want to leave Serenity?"
"Can't think of a reason."

http://disneypix.tripod.com/destiny

CAOILTE

Friday, April 29, 2005 3:36 PM

It'll certainly be HUGE in the UK. We love movies with a good plot.

RKLENSETH

Friday, April 29, 2005 3:58 PM

People said that no studio would put a failed TV show that didn't even have a season onto DVD when the rumor of the DVDs being released found their way onto the internet. When those rumors were confirmed people said that no one would buy it but we did and continue (currently 26th top selling DVD on Amazon.com). When rumors of the movie hit the internet, people said that no one would be crazy enough to pick it up but Universal did. When the movie was confirmed, people said that it would be dropped before filming but that never happened. When the movie was filmed, people said it would end up being a direct to DVD release but all signs are that it will be a theatrical release. So I don't see why Serenity can't beat Star Wars III in the box office. Serenity getting huge buzz online and this is going to lead to huge buzz in the media eventually. People who have never even heard of Firefly or Serenity until the trailer are flocking to fansites to see what the fuss is about.

You see Firefly/Serenity is about doing the impossible. We have done the impossible and that makes us mighty.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

FRAY101

Friday, April 29, 2005 4:04 PM

Your enthusiasm is infectious

Maybe I should ask for a refund on my Ep III ticket....

"Why would I want to leave Serenity?"
"Can't think of a reason."

http://disneypix.tripod.com/destiny

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