ITS TIME! Post How much you would personally give to Joss Whedon & Co. to get our Ship in the air AGAIN!
POSTED BY: TheAntiReaver
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 15:19
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Might be wise to set up a webpage where you can just submit your name/e-mail address/pledge amount. I'd be e-mailing that to dozens of people, but dunno how many I could convince to sign up to FF.net just for this.
That being said, I'm in for at least $250 for the initial season, perhaps more. I might want to decrease that to a more modest $50 or so for subsequent seasons.
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Put me down for 300 per season.
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The purpose of this pledge is to tell the world, specifically Joss and Company who you are and how much money you are actually willing to put on the table to make Firefly a series again.
Who am I?
Someone who wishes this world was full of intelligent, creative, funny and enjoyable art like our Firefly.
How much would I throw down for The Big Damn Fund?
$100 on a whim...
More if this got really real
Good answer
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$16 695.00 In less than 8 hours... Yeehah!
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Put me in for $10,000 if thats what would help put this thing back on the screen.
People, what are you waiting for?
Serenity is still in the theaters!
See the movie Thursday
and ask to buy a ticket for Saturday.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0379786/cinemashowtimes?location=map
Can't get to a showing...Buy an on-line
ticket and don't go!
http://www.fandango.com
http://movies.aol.com
Start your own collection of on-line
tickets purchased that you did not attend.
Take them to conventions and prove to
people that you are willing to spend
cashy money to get this done.
Still plenty of on-line ticket buying
theaters with Serenity playing.
We are holding. Serenity is on the
US map at least until Thanksgiving.
The movie made it to Thankgiving!!!!
Anybody know any theater owners who
would let us buy tickets and have
free showings for the public?
Or www.fireflyfans.net, anyway
you can arrange for us to pay for
free showings of Serenity to the
public? How about you convention
organizers? Might make the news...
like that man who bought out that
theater and tried to give away tickets.
He had trouble getting people to take
them. They wanted to know the catch.
But maybe if the theater is saying
FREE TICKETS TO SERENITY.
Universal is looking at the cashy money
spent now...not future pledges.
Serenity Box office ticket sales.
Serenity DVD widescreen
Serenity DVD fullscreen
Serenity VHS
Serenity UMD Video for PSP (Sony Game player)
Serenity novel
Serenity The Official Visual Companion
Serenity Comic books
Serenity the Official Movie Magazine
Did I forget something?
Hmmm, you know I haven't been using
cashy money buying on-line tickets...
I've been using plasticy money. I have
lots of plasticy money.
Plasticy money counts too!
Put me down for $50 an episode.
Serenity DVDs, VHSs, UMDs for Christmas!
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Yes, you forgot something. The new Ipod video is available right now and I just picked up one today, and its a beaut!
My point here is that on itunes, they are selling televison show episodes for $1.99 per episode, and so far the selection is as lame as it gets. The only thing worth downloading is that NightStalker show and its scary. Wouldnt it be nice to have all the episodes of Firefly on your ipod, in your pocket?
I've already written itunes about having Firefly converted to their movie format and then putting them up for download along with the other shows. I said that we would be willing to spend $2.99 per episode instead on the $1.99 per episode.
Also, I have a PSP, and I want to see Firefly available for that.
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$100 at least.
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100-200 a season
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For a season, I'd pay $100. But I'm actually willing to put up several hundred more (seriously) for a real shot at resurrection. A "cause" if you will, as opposed to a simple purchase of a commodity.
I'm willing to buy shares in a risky investment scheme that involves bringing back a cancelled TV series that was made into a kickass but low-grossing soon-to-be cult film. I'm not kidding about this...I think it's totally feasible to set up a little holding company that exists to raise money to finance Serenity/Firefly/Cap'n Tightpants Rides Again/Whatever. You pays your money and you takes your chances. There would be SEC wrangling involved, I suppose...unless somebody already has a dormant public corporation lying around that we could use (don't laugh, it could happen). Anybody who wants to could buy a share (or 10,000) in the holding company. If/when Serenity/Firefly/etc. is made and makes a profit, each shareholder would receive a dividend based on how many shares they purchased.
The cool thing that we have working in our favor is that TV and film producers are greedy capitalists at heart. If this shiny scheme takes off, it's a way of gathering money AND a bucks-on-the-barrelhead demonstration of the fan support that's out there for our BDH. Fan support = potential revenues as far as greedy capitalists are concerned.
Of course, right now, this is just random peeps posting numbers on a fan site. But, should a browncoat among us figure out a way to structure this pledge thing so that it's more grounded in reality, I believe the campaign could reach a tipping point...a point at which real live TV and/or film producers say "Hmmm....these fanboys raised $(huge hypothetical number) in just (tiny hypothetical time). There's something to this Serenity deal. if I put together $30 million to finance the show, I could see a return of 12% when I figure in the merchandising."*
This is the reality of Hollywood. RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
Also, in addition to the cash, I will volunteer my time toward marketing and promotion. It is generally recognized that Serenity has suffered from heartbreakingly bad marketing campaigns by both Fox and (especially) Universal. (Hell's bells, I think I personally brought in more business than Universal's entire campaign.)
Anyway, I'm so thrilled to see this discussion. There are so many amazingly talented people on this board...I bet we really could pull this off! Because we are Browncoats. And that makes us mighty.
Oh, and before I forget...that slam about "money that could be used to actually help people..." Bringing Firefly back helps me, and everyone reading this board, and everyone who works on the production, and all of their vendors (office supplies, costuming, lighting, makeup, catering, post-production, graphic designers, t-shirt manufacturers, ad agencies, etc.), DVD manufacturers and employees of the media outlets where they buy advertising, and their merchandising partners, their ad agencies and all of THEIR vendors, etc. etc.
If Firefly gets a green light, all of these people get paychecks. It's a beautiful system!
Thanks for wading through this post.
*totally made-up numbers
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50 bucks easy, I'd also love seeing rpg video games, and novels
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