Serenity may fly again?

POSTED BY: DIzz
UPDATED: Saturday, February 4, 2006 11:59
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SHINEY777

Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:17 PM

Tsk, Tsk Fireflynutter! What the hell was that? Give Up? NEVER!!!!!!
Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me. I got a little carried away.
I beleive that we absolutely can create a corp. to buy the rights, but I also agree that Fox would never give them up. I actually e-mailed the corporate office, and asked who I could send copies of the series and movie to, to try to convince the exec's that the show has many more years. My thinking was that if any of them had actually watched the series, it would never had been cancelled. And even though I feel the fan based corp is probably a waste of time, I would buy shares, and many of them, in the hopes that just starting the corp. would be enough of a buzz to get Fox thinking about the merrits of bringing the show back.
For more Firefly stuff, like coffe mugs, hats and T-shirts, check out www.cafepress.com, they have pages full of stuff.

"You're literally the only girl in the world".

MICO

Monday, January 23, 2006 3:37 PM

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Originally posted by Shiney777:
I beleive that we absolutely can create a corp. to buy the rights, but I also agree that Fox would never give them up.

And even though I feel the fan based corp is probably a waste of time, I would buy shares, and many of them, in the hopes that just starting the corp. would be enough of a buzz to get Fox thinking about the merrits of bringing the show back.

I will have to respectfully disagree with your thought that Fox would never give up the rights to Firefly. As others have repeatedly stated, it's all about money. Fox will give up the rights if Fox believes that doing so is best for Fox's bottom line. Remember that with the rights to Firefly, Fox also has the rights to all the income stream generated from Firefly (the profit from the DVD sales, the profit from officially licensing Firefly products, future development rights, etc.) There is a dollar figure that Fox would jump at to sell the rights, no matter who made the offer. I have no earthly idea what figure that would be; maybe it would be so high as to be out of the reach of our hypothetical Browncoats, Inc. But EVERYTHING is for sale, and we won't ever know what the price might be if we don't ever take any steps to find out.

Maybe it's another pipe dream. Seems that might be a Browncoat specialty.

MISTERNISHKA

Monday, January 23, 2006 3:52 PM

Keep buying those DVD's people! My brother bought one, now I bought one and I keep spreading the word to all my college friends to go and rent the movie or buy it and discuss the series, suprizing many knew it existed but had never seen it.

---FOX---

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"The Hero of Canton, the man we call Jayne"

DAX82

Monday, January 23, 2006 4:28 PM

Where do you buy different region dvds. I would like to get the UK and Australian version.

SHINEY777

Monday, January 23, 2006 10:50 PM

Sorry MICO, you caught me in a very negative state of mind. I'm just depressed and frustrated. There isn't anything worthwhile on TV anymore, and I just don't have the time to read a good book!
We could all pool together for the next BIg GAme, or Power BAll drawing and hope we win enough money to get theis going. (This just goes to show how desperate I've become).
So what is the next step in this fan based corp?

MICO

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 3:40 PM

Hey, Shiney777, I completely understand the whole nothing-worth-watching-on-tv scenario.

I'm not sure what the first step in creating Browncoats, Inc. would be. If it were up to me, I'd like to see a core group of competent Browncoats who are able (have the time and skills) and willing (think it's worth pursuing) to begin putting together some information. One of the competent "volunteers" should be a corporate and securities attorney who can advise the group on the legal niceties that have to be observed. Another one should be somewhat of an entertainment industry insider who can point the right direction to the right people to get a realistic number on what it would take to buy the rights from Fox. Depending on what information they put together, the whole thing might or might not be worth pursuing.

For myself, I'll stand on the sidelines and cheer (although I'm willing to help in small ways, my life doesn't lend itself right now to this kind of endeavor), and buy shares of Browncoats, Inc. when they become available. Are there any competent, able, and willing volunteers out there? Or, is it best to take the more passive route of buying DVDs, recruiting more Browncoats, and hoping that's enough (which it might well be)? I don't know, but time will tell.

FIREFLYNUTTER

Saturday, February 4, 2006 11:59 AM

Sorry about the late reply, haven't had much time on me hands.

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Originally posted by Shiney777:
Tsk, Tsk Fireflynutter! What the hell was that? Give Up? NEVER!!!!!!
Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me. I got a little carried away.

I never said give up... Hell I want Firefly back as much, as any one on this forum, I was just stating that as FOX is a large company (a 500 company) it has its reputation to look to. How will they look if they were to sell the rights to a company made entirely of fans. Now I'm not saying it won't work, and it would be a first for the entertainment industry, i'm just trying to say that its going to be a lot harder then what you most likely think. Remembering that the stock market is a very fluid entity, half the fun will just be in floating the company let alone selling any shares. Still I hope to be proven very, very wrong. :)

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