"Universal is on board with movie, the current stumbling block is elsewhere"

POSTED BY: outlander
UPDATED: Friday, February 6, 2004 00:01
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OUTLANDER

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:08 AM

This is from fireflymovie.com

http://www.fireflymovie.com/news.html

"The Letter writing campaign has been put on hold for now. We have received word from a couple of sources that Universal is, at this point, on board with movie, and that the current stumbling block is elsewhere. So as a result, we have been asked to put our letter writing campaign directed toward Universal on hold for now. Thanks to all those that participated, I'm convinced it has helped. In the mean time, feel free to follow through with our other guerilla marketing ideas, and continue converting friends, family and complete strangers to the Firefly fold."

NOOCYTE

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:39 AM

Okay, this must be what going mad feels like...

I've just been to ffm.com, scoured the news and other sections, and found NO mention of this.

My heart is now firmly in my throat. Judging by outlander's sign-on date, this is no pseudo-Browncoat-come-lately laying a Troll-hammer of a prank on us. Some clarification on the source and particulars of this post are most energetically requested.

Department of Redundancy Department

ASTRIANA

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:41 AM

Go to www.fireflymovie.com. Click "enter" at the bottom of the page. Click "news". It's at the top of the new items, dated February 1.

~A~

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

RUXTON

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:45 AM

Do y'all suppose the "stumbling block" has to do with getting the actors together by a specific film-starting date?

DRBORIS

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:56 AM

If I remember correctly, something was said about 'convinceing the guys with money that your production has merit.' Dunno who spesifically that would mean though.

---
"If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed." - Mal

NOOCYTE

Monday, February 2, 2004 5:57 AM

Beats me...

I'm just too busy saying "YEEEHA!" and "WOO-HOO!" and other silly things, not quite having got far enough past "Universal is on board with the movie" to think about much else at this point.

I suspect, however, that my profound ignorance about the film industry and many degrees of separation from those who are deep in the pudding of this particular deal will make any speculation on my part less than useless (though I will gladly read those of others).

YEEEHA!! WOOO-HOOOO!!

Department of Redundancy Department

NOOCYTE

Monday, February 2, 2004 7:34 AM

On reflection, it occurs to me that ignorance is, in fact, a curable disorder. Perhaps someone might be kind enough to lay out for me/us what are the organizational relationships among the various players (e.g., Universal is the distributor [and what that means]; ________is the production company [and what that means], etc.).

If these things are more clear to more people, it might bring us a little closer to understanding where the logjam might lie, and what we can do to help coax it back on its way (if, indeed, there's anything we can/should be doing. Mayhap a deal in progress is best left alone to ripen behind closed doors)...

Any Industry-savvy folks out there in a sharing mood?

Keep flyin'!

Department of Redundancy Department

JAVIDRHO

Monday, February 2, 2004 12:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Astriana:
Go to www.fireflymovie.com. Click "enter" at the bottom of the page. Click "news". It's at the top of the new items, dated February 1.

~A~

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

FYI:
Just so no one thinks they are going crazy, I can only see the Feb 1 post if I use Internet Explorer - nothing past January 25, 2004 shows up when I view the site in Netscape. I checked the source code and there seems to be an error in the page that netscape rejects...

QIXOTL

Monday, February 2, 2004 2:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JavidRho:
FYI:
Just so no one thinks they are going crazy, I can only see the Feb 1 post if I use Internet Explorer - nothing past January 25, 2004 shows up when I view the site in Netscape. I checked the source code and there seems to be an error in the page that netscape rejects...

Ditto here with a pre-0.8 build of Mozilla Firebird. No sign of the 2/1 update with that browser. IE 6.0 ignores the error and displays the new news. Silly sloppy coding.

KELLAINA

Monday, February 2, 2004 4:31 PM

Hi!!

While I am by no means an industry insider I do have a general knowledge of how the whole thing works. Universal Studios is owned by Vivendi Universal. Universal Studios would be responsible for getting the movie made ie. money etc. But they still need a distributer to get the movie to theatres. That could be where the hang up is since Studios usually want to secure domestic and international distribution rights before a movie is made. (Especially international since that's where the most money is made.)

For a list of what exactly Vivendi Universal owns check out http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/vivendi.asp

I'd like to repeat that I am NOT in the know about anything, and I could be wrong about how it all works since I'm going by general knowledge and a textboot.

Interesting note though - Vivendi Universal is the only major media company that doesn't own an American broadcast network.

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