the scary calculations involving getting Serenity to profit
POSTED BY: ethan
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 20:01
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Originally posted by Andre83:
Prints has nothing to do with marketing....
Well, everything I've read from industry professionals and analysts is to the contrary. Or do you think thats another multi-million dollar expenditure that no one counts.
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But as i said. Believe what you want. You have that right.
Fair enough. You have that right as well. But I'm still going to believe the facts.
And BTW:
Main Entry: av·er·age
Pronunciation: 'a-v(&-)rij
Function: noun
1 a : a single value (as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values b :
Synonyms: MEAN, MEDIAN, NORM mean something that represents a middle point.
Main Entry: me·di·an
Pronunciation: 'mE-dE-&n
Function: noun
synonym see AVERAGE
"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."
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Okay, okay, okay. This was bound to get nasty with just about anyone coming in here with their opinion that the chance of a sequel is dead. There's too much passion in this forum for that.
That being said, this discussion has degraded to a point that's not beneficial to the community. There isn't a need to point fingers, either. Opinions have been stated, some have been supported with outside references. There's no need for browncoats to collapse into ourselves. As a general rule, from what I understand of this forum, we like to try to be intelligent and supportive - but I've been wrong before...
The information alluded to in the opening post may be true, and the outside links may be accurate. *someone* said it didn't look good for a sequel. *Someone* said they got their information from an industry professional. Okay, that may be true, and I have no way to dispute that at all :)
We're all here because we love Firefly, and we would like to see Serenity flying again. It was cancelled...I'm going to pause there for a moment because cancelled means it's *finished*. We all know that, and industry professionals said it was dead and gone. We said otherwise, and put forth our best efforts.
Here again, a source, perhaps with industry insight, has said we're finished again. Okay? We've never let that stop us before, and now we have two *major* successes that weren't there the first time - the Box set and the BDM. We've said it here, and Joss Whedon, the source of all of our joy and anguish, has said it too -- the normal rules don't apply here. We're dealing in areas that we haven't gone before, so we're going to try to do our best until we can't any longer. How does anything that was said here diminish that?
We're all good, and passionate people. One of the things that set Firefly fans apart is our intellect as a community. Why are we deteriorating into personal attacks over this? Storymark (I think...sorry, I don't have the thread open to reference) had some information he wanted to share; he thought we should hear it. I thank him both for doing so and for being caring enough to be active in the community.
Could he have done it as a troll and to stir things up? Maybe; it's certainly possible, but I'm not going to assume that people are bringing hatred into the community. Even if they do, it's come and gone before. We'll still be here when things return to "normal".
I'm not going to argue this or that about Hollywood. I don't know enough about the inner workings. We fly with love and hope, ride on the highs and ride out the lows. It's all part of being.
Just as a closing and a point of clarification (I'm not being nasty, just addressing the point), and average is an equal portion dividend of the sum products of numbers, the median is the number in a series that has equal instances before it and after it in a sequence, and a mode is the most commonly occuring number in the series in layman's terms. e.g., given a sequence of numbers 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, the avg is 5.909, the median is 7, and the mode is 8.
Smile, guys...we'll come out of this alright!
Amiton.
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By the way...I'm not stepping in and trying to settle things into not having an intelligent debate or kill the conversation! I think that's tremendously important, and we as intelligent fans need to stay aware of both sides of any of our arguments in order to stay that way. I think (e.g. it's my opinion) that we need intelligent debate to grow as people :)
Amiton.
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A while back a new browncoat gave detailed info on how he -as the owner of a marketing company- would be able to extract a profit out of Serenity. I've forgotten the details and I may be wrong about the type of company he owns, but he was OPTIMISTIC about Serenity being profitable. As Viking pointed out, this franchise does make money in licensing! We have comic books, Rpg's, trading cards, action figures, books, all doing quite well in sales. As the fanbase is expanded so will licensing profits! Most movies make little or no coin in this area. I'm sure we're all thankful that there are no Wedding Crasher action figures, 40 Year Old Virgin condoms, and/or Flightplan Airplanes for sale. Seriously, I'm hoping that the marketing guy would post again or if someone could find the thread? Thanks all!
JBJ
faith: Being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see.
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