How much money will they make off the DVD's? Best case scenario.

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GRAVY

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:56 PM

Anyone know how much money the Serenity DVD could make? Realisticly, what would be a good estimate if things went well?

JASONZZZ

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:40 PM

eck... bloody money going into the corporate coffers... Trying really hard not to think about it...

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MSCKAREN

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:50 PM

"realistically" - this word is starting to make me LOL.

"Realistically" the series DVD never should have sold as much as they did and "realistically" there never should have been a movie.

The movie DVDs will set records just like the series DVDs did and we'll get a second movie. (I'm thinking that's the intent of your question...?)

(Sorry if this comes off as snippy - I was just over at the UB and the nay sayers are starting to get under my skin.)

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 10:52 PM

Um. Okay. Corporate coffers are where the money came from. I'm not sure how people think this works. Someone paid for all of those shows to be made. That was Rupert Murdoch and News Corp., the parent of Fox, which has been the production company for all of Joss' shows whereever they've been made. When money is being made, that's whose making it, which proves firefly to be economically viable and then it is allowed to continue.

So let me do the dance of capitalist superiority. This is today's installment of "Go money go!" If Fox makes money that might convince them, or someone else, that making the content was a wise investment. Since Fox spent all the cash, they really deserve to get some back, and better yet, it shows that content creators reap the benefits by giving money to Joss.

Now that I've said "yay corporate america" or err. "yay corporate australia" to be more technically accurate, let me get to the facts.

I think firefly dvd sales will be about 1 million.

I think Fox is taking about $20 a set from that. so $20M. If someone is closer to the biz or has better numbers, please post them. I think the total expenditure was $25 or $30M, plus $40M for the movie. They probably got like $5M or $10M back from ads already.

But this is what TV shows aim to do, break even. Not like movies. TV shows feel they will make money on the franchise, movies merchandise, reruns, etc. So it's all good, firefly definitely heading into the black, and I do believe that it ain't coming back. (into the red - I hope it's coming back on the air.)

GRAVY

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:01 PM

heheh, it's ok =)

I just want to know if DVD sales can garner the amount of money necessary for the making of another movie. And from what I've heard there's been talk that if the movie can earn something close to 80 million there's a good chance of the sequal being made. That would mean the DVD sales would have to fill a 30 to 40 million dollar gap. And I'm talking about Serenity now, not Firefly.

JASONZZZ

Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:58 PM

Holy Smokes! $20 for a movie DVD? Is that US Dollars or Aussie? I dont' ever pay more than $12.99 for a movie DVD. Between GMart, KMart, WalMart, they are always beating each other up on movie pricing.

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STAKETHELURK

Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:54 AM

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Originally posted by Gravy:
I just want to know if DVD sales can garner the amount of money necessary for the making of another movie.

I’ve been composing a post on this topic for the past few days (it’s kinda longish and I haven’t had much time to work on it). Should be able post it in a day or two, with figures and something of a plan of action. But, here’s a relevant quote from said unfinished post that should answer you question (and probably scare you):

“Serenity must outsell “Firefly.” By a factor of 3. Minimum.”

So, to elaborate, we sell just as well as “Firefly” did and we will be dead in the water (or outer space or whatever). And even with that factor of three thing (1.5 million copies sold), we’ll still only make around $20 million. You can see that this’ll be very difficult to pull off--more on that later.

On a lighter note, that $80 million figure is what will guarantee sequels--we it hit it, they will happen. But that's just a guarantee; they might decide to go with sequels even with lower figures if they feel it's cost-effective. We just have to convince them there's a sizable audience out there that wants more.

MIRAMEL

Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:16 AM

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Holy Smokes! $20 for a movie DVD? Is that US Dollars or Aussie? I dont' ever pay more than $12.99 for a movie DVD. Between GMart, KMart, WalMart, they are always beating each other up on movie pricing.

20 about norm, when it first comes out atleast... besides, you know we'll all buy it anyway

BAPTISMO

Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:34 AM

Dont think Fox will get anythng off the movie DVD. That would all go to Universal wouldnt it?

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DELTAFOURTWO

Thursday, October 20, 2005 5:57 AM

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Dont think Fox will get anythng off the movie DVD. That would all go to Universal wouldnt it?

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This is true. The film rights and the television rights for the property are seperate. So Fox gets the DVD take and a take of the sydication rights for it playing on Sci-Fi (Which Universal owns so they get a cut too). While Universal gets ALL of the film release and DVD release money.

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