BRACE YOURSELVES. . .THIS ROCKS!!!!!
POSTED BY: Static
UPDATED: Friday, June 24, 2005 20:46
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While I certainly warmly embrace this news, I do have a question, and maybe other Browncoats can help answer.
Are the Versal folks tracking in any way the number of repeat viewers to the screenings?
Seems to me, that a lot of people will be on their 2nd and 3rd time seeing the BDM. While repeat viewings are a necessity for a highly successful run, does this make the numbers seem rosier than they are? I know that they added cities everytime, and they all sold out, but I'd just be interested to know how many "unique" viewers there were for the run of the screenings.
Don't get me wrong, Serenity by the end of summer/early fall would be a dream come true. With SW:ROTS not sucking, and War Of The Worlds coming soon, it might make sense to bump it up before sci-fi starts to wane. Go Versal, Go!
Stay Shiny,
Wes
"I wanna cast...Magic Missile."
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*faints with smile on face and single tear trickling down left cheek*
extremely dimensionally transcendental
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Originally posted by everyworldspinnin:
Are the Versal folks tracking in any way the number of repeat viewers to the screenings?
Seems to me, that a lot of people will be on their 2nd and 3rd time seeing the BDM. While repeat viewings are a necessity for a highly successful run, does this make the numbers seem rosier than they are? I know that they added cities everytime, and they all sold out, but I'd just be interested to know how many "unique" viewers there were for the run of the screenings.
I doubt they have any way of knowing how many 'repeat' viewers they have. . .but they're really looking at nothing more than numbers, which is fine.
On the one hand. . .maybe 100 million folks saw the movie on opening weekend. SCORE!!!!
On the other hand...maybe only 50 million saw it, but they loved it so much they saw it twice. SCORE!!!!
Either way, they win, and it opens doors for US as an audience.
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How fantastic!! I hope so I hope so I hope so I hope so . . .
.... because I can't get tickets to get into a screening no matter how hard I try. Next month, maybe?
"I can't keep track of her when she's not
incorporeally possessing a space ship.
Don't look at me."
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Originally posted by aver:
Not to be a glass-is half-empty type of person, but do you suppose if Serenity is released much earlier than Dragoncon Joss and the cast will pull out because of lack of the need to build up anticipation for the movie? I'd hate to book what will be a very expensive weekend on the condition of seeing my beloved Serenity people and then be disappointed. No refunds, ya know!
On the upside, of course, Serenity Now!
No, they would never do that. They are BDH, remember? They do these things out of LOVE.
"I can't keep track of her when she's not
incorporeally possessing a space ship.
Don't look at me."
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I would LOVE to believe that the movie would do even HALF as good as star wars... but here's why i can't get excited by your news. All the advance screenings have to be populated with hard core fans. People who know the show and have been waiting for the film. If you really take that number and compare it to hard core star wars fans, we might equal like 1/50 of what star wars has if we were lucky. and that's not even counting the people who aren't hard core fans of star wars but are still willing to pay to see it. plus all the brand recognition star wars has which serenity sadly lacks. I have asked everyone I know if they plan to see Serenity, and unfortuatly, most of them simply say, "plan to see what?". But every one knows star wars.
I am all about the BDM making millions... believe me. But the idea people have that it is going to do jsut as well if not better than star wars just seems ludicris to me. and hey.. i didn't even like episode 3 all that much.
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*shakes head but claps too*
How do movie studios ever manage to get it right?
They didn't realize we were this eager?! Have they never looked at the internet?!
Oh, well, I still love Universal for giving us this movie, even if I think some of their execs must be a little slow on the uptake!
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Hey Static... You mentioned Mission Valley... are you in San Diego?
Jaymes
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Hmm but what if the movie is moved to Labor Day weekend? No way we'll have the Cast and Joss at D*C during the opening weekend of the movie-
OTOH - if it's released late July/ early August there shouldn't be any conflicts...
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Originally posted by BONNIET:Quote:
Originally posted by aver:
Not to be a glass-is half-empty type of person, but do you suppose if Serenity is released much earlier than Dragoncon Joss and the cast will pull out because of lack of the need to build up anticipation for the movie? I'd hate to book what will be a very expensive weekend on the condition of seeing my beloved Serenity people and then be disappointed. No refunds, ya know!
On the upside, of course, Serenity Now!
No, they would never do that. They are BDH, remember? They do these things out of LOVE.
"I can't keep track of her when she's not
incorporeally possessing a space ship.
Don't look at me."
http://www.cafepress.com/serenity05movie
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Well, this seems to be really cool. I'm glad that they're really optimistic about the pic. If they want to bump up the movie's release date, that's cool. I'm just hoping that it's not too early, you know what I'm saying.
I hope that they don't push it up so that it opens around, say, the end of August, for two reasons. One is that the end of August is usually kind of a dumping grounds for some of the weaker flicks of the summer. People are kinda movied out and are sick of the big fx vehicles, so that would kinda ruin SERENITY's changes at turning a profit, which we all know would be the only thing that would make sure our BDH's get the same longevity in movie theatres that Kirk and Co. got. And the second and more personal reason is that Terry Gilliam's cinematic return after an 8 year hiatus, THE BROTHERS GRIMM, is hitting theatres about that time. And that flick needs the same kind of attention our flick is getting. I mean, it's Terry Gilliam, for chrissakes.
Now beginning of August might be really shiny. That would indeed be a prime time to release the flick.
Peace
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And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like ... ow ... ound ... round ... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?
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