Have you guys seen this?
POSTED BY: gypsylife
UPDATED: Thursday, February 2, 2006 03:57
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I just saw this on myspace. Is this for real? I teared up while reading it. ...*sniffle*
article taken from EW.com
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Adios, 'Firefly'...
Joss Whedon lets ''Firefly'' go -- The ''Serenity'' director may turn to ''Buff the Vampire Slayer'' for his next big-screen project by Jeff Jensen
When Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon looks back on 2005, he can take comfort in knowing that his film-directing debut, the sci-fi Western Serenity, resurrected his canceled-too-soon cult classic TV series Firefly, and was also one of the year's best-reviewed movies. ''I should say I'm above reading reviews,'' he says. ''But I would be lying.'' Alas, Whedon's fond memories are also tainted by Serenity's status as a franchise nonstarter; despite Universal's best marketing efforts, the film only mustered $25 million. ''In the end, it was what it was: a tough sell,'' says Whedon, adding that it appears the Firefly saga has reached its conclusion. He has no regrets and he's moving on. He's currently penning a Wonder Woman flick for Warner Bros., and has the thriller Goners set up at Universal; he'll direct whichever gets a green light first. Buffy's papa has more Slayerstuff in the pipeline as well: an ongoing comic book (''the eighth season we never made''), and possibly a series of DVD flicks focusing on characters like platinum bloodsucker Spike. As for Serenity, ''I have closure,'' he says. ''And now, I can have it in my home which means that finally I can actually stop working on it.''
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I'm putting my fingers in my ears, shutting my eyes and humming...I can't hear you...
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Well to be honest, a lot of those quotes are taken completly out of context from his DVDtalk interview. Joss actually said a sequel still depends mainly on DVD sales, so lets at least see how they go before we completly right things off.
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it's just an object. it's not what you think.
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I'm not sure I belive all that. I mean, this could be me being optimstic but I'm fairly sure I've seen those quotes in context, and they didn't give the impression they did up there. And didn't the film make closer to 40 mil? (34 domestic was the last I had heard).
And honestly? They made Cheaper by the Dozen, part 2. If they can sell that drivel, Serenity 2 (Back in [the] Black) had better be made, damn it!
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I did a little searching to see if I could find anything to confirm or deny this. I found this article by tvguide.com that came out Dec. 14th.
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/?cmsGuid=%7B474C40BF-9ED5-4BED-A17
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He basically reiterates that it all does still depend on the DVD sales.
*croses fingers, toes, eyes, and anything else that can be crossed.
Psolaris
"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"
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Yah, There have been several sequals to movies that "lost" money out of the gate but that became very sucessfull later on.
Look at firefly boxset sales years after the show was cancelled. Currently #11 on Amazon and has been steadily rising for months... Fans converting fans at an exponential rate. 
Meme transfer / Viral Marketing starts off slow, but when it does take off, get out of the way. This only works for GOOD products by the way - After all, NOONE is gonna tell their friends "Hey, I bought this crappy DVD. You should to!"
Serenity is Amazons #4 (#3 if you lump the 2 versions of penguin march) right behind Starwars and it isn't even officially out yet... Consider, Star Wars has had over 20 YEARS of advertising behind it and it has HUGELY successfull earlier films to ride the coattails of.
Cream rises to the top. Maybe not fast (and, yes, sometimes too slowly to do any good) but it gets there.
Unless there is a massive collaps in sales after christmass, I'm gonn keep my wait-and-see hopefull attitude for a while yet.
Remember, it took years to get from the criticly acclaimed TV series hardly anyone ever heard of to the criticly acclaimed movie that, it seems, hardly anyone ever heard of... Almost everyone I've ever mentioned it to has said "What's that?"
Show me it's still on the books in the red a year from now and I'll believe it's dead then. And probably curse you at the same time for proving it.
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Thanks guys, I really do feel better now, I guess even now and again a browncoat needs a little reassurance.
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Whew, I feel better now too. On first sight that article is just plain frightening. Read the tvguide.com one though and seems much more straight forward.
Thanks folks for helping.
I feel like writing EW and saying, it ain't over 'til it's over.
The fan base is growing and growing and Joss will get done with his other projects one of these days and we'll be next again. We just have to help sell lots of DVD's. And keep letting Joss know that we want more of the 'verse.
"I sure as hell ain't layin' down arms." Mal
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Um...I have a problem with the the sentence that begins with "despite Universal's best marketing efforts..." I saw like 3 TV ads and no posters, whereas if I see one more Aeon Flux commercial I'm going to throw something at the TV. I'm glad they agreed to make the movie and all, but the marketing was lackluster IMHO. So given that bit of EW editorializing, I'm not too confident in their interpretation of Whedon's words which others have already said were taken out of context.
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