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Mutant Enemy: DVD's are doing really well; "official" movie news soon.

POSTED BY: jaysedai
UPDATED: Sunday, February 1, 2004 20:54
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DECKROID

Sunday, February 1, 2004 5:37 AM

I would love to see this made into a movie. I just wonder what the main last hurdle is. I mean, the DVD sales and the rabid fans are a great way to show that it will make money... All the actors said they are all on-board (got that from the mp3 of the convention in December)... Non-Creative hurdles could be money, merchandicing rights, DVD rights, what happens after the movie (e.g. they move back to the small screen)...

Gaa! It just makes me nervous to think that they are so close to getting greenlighted only to be shot down by some Exec

Anyways... I went and got shares of the movie... I suggest anyone else interested to do the same, if you haven't already done so. It costs nothing, its just for fun.

http://movies.hsx.com/servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=FRFLY

I call her "Vera".

GRATTO

Sunday, February 1, 2004 6:36 AM

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Originally posted by Gratto:
Then SciFi would turn around and cancel it due to some fine print in the the contract after they already publicly stated that they were going to make two more seasons.

Huh? Why do you think SciFi would do this? They are the channel for a show such as Firefly. I think they would stick with it. Afterall, they've stuck with Stargate SG-1 for 6 or 7 seasons. And considering that Firefly, in my opinion, is better than Stargate SG-1 (and I'm a SG-1 fan).

they did that with Farscape. They publicly (SP) stated that they would pick up a 4 and 5 season only to cancel after the 4th.

DAVEB

Sunday, February 1, 2004 2:49 PM

So how does this stock-exchange thing help then? I regestered and bought the maximum shares in Firefly. Hope it helps in some way.

"Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

KAY

Sunday, February 1, 2004 7:12 PM

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Originally posted by DaveB:
So how does this stock-exchange thing help then?
Short answer: We dont know, because we dont know who is looking at it. But it cant hurt.
Long answer: My inside sources tell me that there are some very sophisticated mathmatical models for taking information from simulated stock market and futures operations and making predictions about the future based on it. This is not a game. Some of you may remember the big dust up several months back about a "proposed terrorism futures market" to be sponsored by John Ashcroft and DARPA. The press had it wrong; no one ever proposed using real money to set up such a futures market for the general public. It probably would have been a simulation, probably only open to intelligence and military types, which could then be evaluated to try to predict at-risk targets.
Back to the point, you can tell a lot about how much people believe in a certain idea/property/person by how much money, even fake money, they will bet on it. I own 50,000 shares of "Firefly" on hsx.com. How about you?

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FIREFLYWILDCARD1

Sunday, February 1, 2004 7:40 PM

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Originally posted by Gratto:

they did that with Farscape. They publicly (SP) stated that they would pick up a 4 and 5 season only to cancel after the 4th.

Ah. Well, no offence meant, but it was time to cancel Farscape. Granted it wasn't kind of SciFi to publicly announce that they were going to do seasons 4 and 5 and then cancel the series after season 4. I was a fan of Farscape for the first 3 seasons and then it seemed that the creators and writers ran out of ideas and original stories. I was really getting sick of Scorpy being unkillable. He just kept coming back. If they hadn't dragged the Scorpy thing on for so long, I would have enjoyed the 4th season as well. But oh well that's just my opinion. I thought the actors did great jobs though and I'm sad to see them go but hopefully they can get more roles soon!

MAJSON

Sunday, February 1, 2004 8:05 PM

Firefly the movie..the hurdles.

well possibly actor's schedules, i know that Adam Baldwin is supposed to be in stargate, and the rumours are he may be offered a part in the spin-off atlantis..if so that'll be a huge hurdle.

Budget would also be one, being as it was an expensive show to produce, how much would be needed for a movie etv. Script..they always undergo re-writes

anyway, as for farscape..what a lot of farscape fans don't get is that during the time when farscape was cancelled, the previous owners of the Sci-Fi channel were trying to sell it, and thus were not pumping much money into the channel, they could only really afford one big tv show, and the viewers were going with sg-1.

Sci fi never wanted to cancel farscape, infact if you do some proper reading around the subject you'll find they tried to get 13 episodes but the Henson group couldn't afford to do that either. Thus now it may be turned into a mini series to finish off the story (which channel it'll be on i do not know)

DAVEB

Sunday, February 1, 2004 8:46 PM

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I own 50,000 shares of "Firefly" on hsx.com. How about you?

Yeah me too, can't buy anymore.

"Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

FIREFLYWILDCARD1

Sunday, February 1, 2004 8:54 PM

I own 50,000 shares of Firefly's movie stock as well. Hope the people in distribution companies look at this type of simulation.