Could SciFi Fans Pay for Seasons of Firefly?
POSTED BY: Jyska
UPDATED: Thursday, May 26, 2005 16:54
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I think everyone is thinking of going for too much. Don’t think about Networks at this point, think about just making the shown ad selling it, episode by episode on DVD. If for every DVD set that has been bought there is one DVD of the episode bought it would need to cost 1 bit over ten dollars per episode.
Think of it like that, no donations or whatnot. After the pilot is made simply sell it by DVD, if a network wants it they can pay for it just like any other show they didn’t produce, but start off simple. You know the number of DVDs that can be sold, factor in the cost of a DVD, put in the cost of an episode, and figure out what it takes. It is my understanding that producing a DVD is not expensive, they just charge more because they can.
For comparison, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VOL. 9: SKIN DEEP out yesterday costs $10, the extended cut of Stripes coming out on June 7 costs $20. National Treasure, been out for 23 days, costs $30.
So, if you marketed it like a comic book you would get back the cost of the episode, but not of the DVDs themselves. If you sold them in groups of two and market like Stripes it is the same thing. If you did it like National Treasure (in groups of two) you would make back the cost of the episode and the DVDs themselves.
Problem being, you probably still have to sell them through somebody, thus slashing the profit.
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Why not just take that idea, find the problems, and then fix them. Save the trouble of needing to air it at all, if the cast is willing. Joss himself said that when they were filming they felt like they were doing it not for the series but instead for the DVD to come.
Donations would only be needed to augment the sales when they didn’t work right.
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This is all after the initial cost of the pilot.
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