summer 2005
POSTED BY: orangerful
UPDATED: Sunday, April 4, 2004 06:55
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See, the thing about Star Wars is that we shouldn't fear the reaper... I worked in a theater when Episode II came out... just a few weeks after Spiderman debutted. Spiderman had a few weeks on its own to get the buzz around, and even if it had been a stinker, it wouldn't have left before Star Wars came out because of the way contracts work. Now, you'd think that Star Wars opening two or so weeks after Spiderman would've resulted in SM being squashed like a bug, right? Well, you'd be underestimating the... shall we say... naivety of the movie going public. For the first week or so, every show we had of Star Wars was sold out in advance... but people would still come and wait in long lines just to be told the show was sold out. Having waited for so long, though, the really wanted to see a movie... and thus the vast majority of them said, "Well, let's see Spiderman right now and we can see Star Wars afterwards."
Can you imagine if Serenity was in this position?
Release Serenity a few weeks before Star Wars... let it get the buzz around, people will talk about what a good movie it is, and devoted FF fans will keep it grossing enough money to keep it in the theaters when SW debuts. Then you have those same people trying to see a soldout SW saying, "Well we want to see a movie... hey, Serenity is a space movie... let's see that."
I'll call it the "Riding in on Darth Vader's cape" style of making a movie franchise! :-D
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While I think it would be great to get the Star Wars audience to see Serenity, I don't think it would do the movie great press for the general audience if people go see it only because they waited in line for a sold out movie. And while it would work in getting Serenity money, we also want Serenity to stand on it's own two feet.
I think the idea of having Serenity previews before Star Wars is a great idea. However, I don't think it's probable. Most movies seem to come with their own previews already included. And most studios only preview other movies created/sponsored by them. No free advertising for other studios.
I'm interested to see how they do this. Because it could go well either way (release before or after SW).
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Ok, maybe I missed something, but have they projected a Summer 2005 release date? Last time I heard (which was a while ago) it was projected for late 2005.
Personally, I think it wouldn't be good to release Serenity as a "summer" movie. "Summer" movies tend to be waaay more explode-y,or straight comedy, and lately,it seems like "summer" movies also tend to be sequels or comic book movies, and those have huge built-in audiences.
If they haven't changed the projected release date, I'm guessing somewhere between late August- September to just before Thanksgiving.
If they have changed it, never you mind. :)
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Yeah, I've heard Fall 2005. November seems most likely.
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Originally posted by InvisibleGreen:
Yeah, I've heard Fall 2005. November seems most likely.
That seems like a very long time away right now. I hope they keep giving us a few tidbits during filming to keep us going.
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Does anyone know how long after the US release it would be released in the UK?
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Why does there have to be competition between the last Star Wars movie and the first Firefly movie? Personally, I like to think of 2005 as the Best Science Fiction Summer EVER!
Lots of folks have mentioned Spider-Man and Episode II, but I don't think anyone mentioned the movie that wasn't particularly hurt by coming out a few weeks before Episode I: The Mummy. Although more Indiana Jones than Star Wars, it has a lot of "that Lucas feel", and I think, benefited from Episode I being out at the same time. Let's hope Firefly follows in the model of The Mummy and Spider-Man!
When I'm trying to describe Firefly, by the way, I've often described it as "the closest thing I've ever seen to a Star Wars TV series" or "kind of like of they made a TV show about guys who would hang out with Han Solo." Don't knock it; the approach has won more than a few converts.
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Originally posted by fireflywildcard1:
I think the idea of having Serenity previews before Star Wars is a great idea. However, I don't think it's probable. Most movies seem to come with their own previews already included. And most studios only preview other movies created/sponsored by them. No free advertising for other studios.
It has been a while since I was a projectionist, but I doubt things have changed that much. True, studios do attach trailers for some of their upcoming films to the head of their features, but a theatre is not limited to showing only those trailers. Every time I go to the movies these days there are at least five or six, sometimes more, trailers before the feature, and they are not all by the same studio either. Any half-way intelligent projectionist will run genre related trailers with genre films, romance w/ romance, kid flicks w/ kid flicks, etc. So depending on when Serenity will be released there is a very big chance its trailers will be shown before Star Wars and other genre films released next year.
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well slap my face and call me Stephen Glass - I dont' know why I assumed it was a Summer release. haha. I just checked IMDB and it only says "2005"....I guess I just figured it would be a perfect summer time movie...i can already see myself stuffing popcorn into my mouth as the theme music plays...but winter spring summer fall, all browncoats (and their friends wether they want to or not!) will be in the theaters a munchin and watchin and lovin every minute...
actually, that doesn't sound like a bad plan for a saturday night....think I'll go make me some popcorn and watch "Serenity"
Thank you to the fact checkers out there!
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