Serenity DVD sales.....too lazy to find other thread

POSTED BY: Egs
UPDATED: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 23:52
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EGS

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:54 AM

I know this has been brought up in another thread but i can't find it for the life of me.

Just wondering if anyone has been in a Walmart today or recently. I just got
back, and went to the electronics section to see how many more of Serenity
DVD's they still had in stock. To my surprise I couldnt find a single copy.
Tuesdays are usually restocking days, and there was a few empty spaces in
the movie section, but I'm not sure if these were Serenity spots. They where
to busy to ask, but I just found it funny, that they seemed to be out, as
this was a Hamilton, Ontario location which is usually overstocked.

I then went to the Blockbuster attacked to the mall, and they had
only 1 copy left to purchase and they had just gotten in a few more copies
this morning. It seems to be selling, which is good.

Was just wondering if anyone else had noticed anything like this.

www.canadianbrowncoats.com

or

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadianbrowncoats/

OMELET

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 1:58 AM

I know that this isn't dvd sales related, but I went to the local Best Buy today and I was the very lucky one who bought the very last Serenity Motion Picture Soundtrack. They were all sold out of it and Best Buy usually has plenty of them in stock.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

EGS

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:01 AM

Really, I can't find any around here either.

But thats a good sign!!!

www.canadianbrowncoats.com

or

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadianbrowncoats/

RKLENSETH

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:04 AM

The Wal-Mart near me before Christmas had about 10 copies combined left and after Christmas it seems they were all stocked up with them and even expanded their shelf space. Both visits to Wal-Mart they still had a few Firefly DVDs on the shelf but it is to be expected since they were selling it at full price. Target had it for about half the price down the street.

I went to Target after Christmas and they has only three full screen copies of Serenity left while all the other new releases were overstocked and they were also completely out of Firefly DVDs as well.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

NINAH148

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:34 AM

New to this website...saw the "pilot" of Firefly when it originally aired, but it didn't quite grab me. Boy, do I feel like a fool now. Got Serenity (which we saw in theaters and loved) and the Firefly series on DVD for fiance's Christmas present. We watched Serenity, then the whole series one by one, then Serenity again, and then Serenity with commentary. I guess you could say we're hooked. If that doesn't convince you, New Year's Eve we watched an ep from 3 - 4 a.m. because I wouldn't go to sleep until I've seen one. I've been tracking the Amazon DVD sales, and they look darn impressive to me. I think good sales are only half of it, and raising awareness about how well it's doing is the other. Fiance has an entertainment news themed blog, and posted about it ( www.daviddylanthomas.com/blog), after I bugged him about it only a few dozen times. Hopefully he won't be the last. Aren't the newest recruits always the most gung-ho? :-)

FOLLOWMAL

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:50 AM

I was in WalMart today and searched for "Serenity", finally found it with the older movies. They'd moved it off the new shelf. I asked an employee how they were selling and he said after the initial run on them, it had slowed down... but he said there was no advertising with it, nor any push, so he wasn't surprised. I asked if he had seen it, or Firefly, he said no, so I encouraged him to see it.

The Firefly slot was empty, all sold out!

This employee is bringing his Jeep to our shop, so I will keep after him, maybe he will fall in love (what...maybe... of course he will!) and start suggesting the movie to customers.

I wasn't too worried about it though, because my local movie place tells me it's flying off the shelf and he can't get it back once it's rented, and people are starting to ask about Firefly when they bring it back. So....i'm still encouraged.

This may take awhile. But like my Mom says, it's a movie based on a tv show that was on the air for too short a time, cancelled, several years ago now! It's amazing what the Browncoats and the cast and crew have done! It captured all these folks here. It'll capture more, we just have to give it time to spread.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

MEIMEIMEG

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 2:55 AM

Welcome Ninah148! My story is just like yours...saw "The Train Job" when it aired on TV (because I was a huge Buffy fan, and interested in the new Joss project), thought it was alright, promptly forgot about the series when it was preempted by...baseball, I think. So if that makes one a fool, then at least you're not alone.

Serenity was what got me, though, and like you, my husband and I can't get enough. As for the DVD sales, I think they're still doing good. But just 'cause Christmas is over doesn't mean us Browncoats should stop buying, and buying, and buying some more....

I can live off of Ramen noodles for awhile, methinks.

MEIMEIMEG

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:02 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:
I was in WalMart today and searched for "Serenity", finally found it with the older movies. They'd moved it off the new shelf. I asked an employee how they were selling and he said after the initial run on them, it had slowed down... but he said there was no advertising with it, nor any push, so he wasn't surprised. I asked if he had seen it, or Firefly, he said no, so I encouraged him to see it.

The Firefly slot was empty, all sold out!

This employee is bringing his Jeep to our shop, so I will keep after him, maybe he will fall in love (what...maybe... of course he will!) and start suggesting the movie to customers.

Mal

Excellent work spreading the word!

OMELET

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:03 AM

Mmmm. Ramen noodles. Now I want some.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

NINAH148

Wednesday, January 4, 2006 3:05 AM

:-) Fiance just came upstairs and told me to read the blog post he had been working on. He put "Serenity" in his top 10 of 2005. His blog gets several thousand unique visitors a month...go Team Browncoats! I see it's still holding strong on IMDB's best of 2005 polls too. I was wondering if there was enough Mandarin to shoehorn it into the "Foreign Language Film" category too! (I decided that was a bridge too far).

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