WE DID IT !!! Serenity opens #1 in the UK!

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UPDATED: Thursday, October 13, 2005 19:40
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MISGUIDED BY VOICES

Monday, October 10, 2005 9:05 PM

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Originally posted by CS:
That's not actually as big as Pride & Predudice or History of Violence last week. We're pretty lucky to be a number one with those figures.

What the heck though, we're number one!

That said, transfer the numbers across to the US BO and its still the same opening weekend figures really.

"I threw up on your bed"

BROWNTROUSERS

Monday, October 10, 2005 9:07 PM

Guess my efforts to tell everyone i know to "Go see Serenity" paid off.

I live in the UK.

PHOEBE

Monday, October 10, 2005 9:13 PM

And let's not forget that being #1 has another effect - it makes everyone stand up and take notice.

198505

Monday, October 10, 2005 9:39 PM

I've been telling most of the people that I work with to go and see it, don't know how many will or how many will buy a downloaded bootleg copy of it, fingers crossed they go out and watcg it on the big screen.

'If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.

198505

Monday, October 10, 2005 9:40 PM

I've been telling most of the people that I work with to go and see it, don't know how many will or how many will buy a downloaded bootleg copy of it, fingers crossed they go out and watcg it on the big screen.

'If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.

NERVOUSPETE

Monday, October 10, 2005 9:59 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/entertainment/kermode.shtml

"Really, interesting, really strange, really good fun... grown up, smart, satirical, sci-fi with heart. I was really pleasantly surprised by it." - No 1. UK film critic Mark Kermode. The review get's quite funny with an argument between Kermode and over the word 'enterist' which Kermode calls it. Lovely stuff. There's a review of Oliver Twist before that, and of Nightwatch after that if you're interested, and a fantastically amusing slaughtering of 'Ragtail', an unutterably poor film. You can download by MP3 or stream through Realplayer. The Serenity review starts at 26:20 minutes-ish. There's also a direct link to that section on the site, methinks, but if you love film it's worth listening to it all.

His movie of the week? Serenity! Yay! And he'd never seen Firefly before!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/frontrow/index.shtml

Radio Four Front Row's Art's Show (a national treasure) has a review and a look at Serenity, the first item in the half hour show. It's the Thursday edition on the links. This one is realplayer only. The ladies love it thankfully - "almost a moral parable for our times," - "I've slept through any number of Star Wars films, but this..." - "darkness mixed with amazing humour." It keeps cutting out and reloading on my connection, but it's worth persevering with!

So the establishment loves Serenity! Yay!

And it's No.1 in the UK, double yay!

First of all we do a top class new series of Doctor Who that everyone from kids to critics (apart from certain hard core Whovians) loves and now we embrace Joss's latest! The question is, will we do a Jimi Hendrix*? He was ignored in the US, came over here, became massive, and we sold him back to you! Muah ha ha!

(*Probably not, unfortunately, but at least I have a deep love for glorious, wonderful failures)

"If you can keep your head whilst others... eurgh! Ack! I've spilt my ink! Ugh! Ink on my trousers! Agh! Ink on my shirt! My only hope! The window! Aieeeeee!" (Falls to death)
- Jonathan Nash

BERNADETTE

Monday, October 10, 2005 10:30 PM

Bravo!!, UK Browncoats

Bernie

RIVERNOT

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:07 PM

Excellent!!! Way to go UK!!

BELLONA

Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:24 PM

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big group hug everyone! lets stick to the man, coz we are fandabeedozi, baby! hell, i skived p.e. to go see it!

naughty naughty!!! *smacks kizziecstars wrist*

well, ain't like i can talk, i skipped english 'cause...'cause...ah, hell, i just skipped english

WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!! in a kinda creepy an' obssesive fanbase kinda way

can't take the sky

DRU

Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:34 PM

I've been talking up the movie and TV series at work. Went with a coworker to see the movie she loved it. Someone else went with his family and they all loved it too and he plans to get the series on DVD.

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