Here Be Hard Data on Serenity CE Sales
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UPDATED: Sunday, September 23, 2007 06:57
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Lowbrow stuff has always sold better than more refined stuff. Although in the case of Firefly, the only lowbrows in the way were the ones running Fox at the time...
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Rank 1
Prev. Rank (-)
Title Wild Hogs
Units this Week 2,198,651
% Change -.-%
Total Units 2,198,651
Sales this Week $35,156,429
Total Sales $35,156,429
Weeks in Release 1
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Studio execs may be a little leery of stuff that is hugely popular with the net audience. The memory of "Snakes on a Plane" bombing at the box office is still fresh. Much more was expected of Serenity I. Well, maybe a little more. Maybe Josh is haggling over how much Serenity II will cost. Who knows?
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Originally posted by derangedmilk:
So....if the movie made money in the theaters (Joss said the studio admitted it got into the black) and DVD sales did well enough to get a Special Edition release which also did fairly well....why aren't we seeing a countdown to Serenity 2 on the main page of this website????
Seriously, why not?
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This is what gets me: Ever seen one of the scifi channel's made-for-tv-movies? They blow all manner of *ss. I'm not sure what the budget was on a picture like mamoth or earthstorm but I know they couldn't have made all the much money. Serenity the pilot episode cost about 2 million if memory serves and it made a lot of money when you think about how much DVD sales of Firefly took in. Plus, it ruled! So, if the execs at scifi (which is owned by UniversalNBC) would fork over just 2 or 3 million to make a tv movie sequel to firefly, I'm sure Joss and team could pull it off and they'd probably make there money back on ads alone during the first few showings. Not to mention DVD sales and I think at this point we browncoats have proven we'll buy whatever they put out.
So how about it? Why not a scifi TV movie? Should we start the letter writing campaign?
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I'm surprised and dismayed that the International revenues were so low. I would think that folks over in Asia, who are generally rabid movie-goers would have loved and embraced the BDM for its' action and Oriental influence. But I guess not...or was it that it wasn't distributed on a large basis around the world.
Seems to me I recall at the time that many of the foreign showings were canceled as the box office dropped.
Quite correct. In fact, Serenity's lack of theatrical release in, for example, Japan reportedly was why Japanese fans weren't able to mount a charity screening there this year.
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Originally posted by derangedmilk:
This is what gets me: Ever seen one of the scifi channel's made-for-tv-movies? They blow all manner of *ss. I'm not sure what the budget was on a picture like mamoth or earthstorm but I know they couldn't have made all the much money. Serenity the pilot episode cost about 2 million if memory serves and it made a lot of money when you think about how much DVD sales of Firefly took in. Plus, it ruled! So, if the execs at scifi (which is owned by UniversalNBC) would fork over just 2 or 3 million to make a tv movie sequel to firefly, I'm sure Joss and team could pull it off and they'd probably make there money back on ads alone during the first few showings.
So how about it? Why not a scifi TV movie? Should we start the letter writing campaign?
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Nope...Memory fails...'Serenity' (the pilot episode) cost more than 8 , almost 9 million dollars...But , Joss put all of it onto the
screen .
Sci-fi's made-for-TV stuff generally really does suck...So why would we want our show to be a one-shot movie on that little network with limited demographics ?
HBO or Showtime or another large pay-cable net would be a much-better choice...They'd be able to bring the coin to do it right...
2 megabucks would scarcely be enough to build a Serenity ship's set...Probably was more than that in the case of the BDM .
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Sci-fi's made-for-TV stuff generally really does suck...So why would we want our show to be a one-shot movie on that little network with limited demographics ?
HBO or Showtime or another large pay-cable net would be a much-better choice...They'd be able to bring the coin to do it right...
2 megabucks would scarcely be enough to build a Serenity ship's set...Probably was more than that in the case of the BDM .
Those crappy sci-fi movies have viewers though. I read somewhere awhile ago that they do okay for sci-fi. I'm not sure who watches them, but someone must.
AND I want to give Sci-Fi the benefit of the doubt. If they gave Joss the money and let him do it with just minor influences, it might work. The Farscape movie was pretty good. skiffy is so iffy though (didn't mean to make that a bad play on words there)
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Why is this thread titled "Here Be Hard Data on Serenity CE Sales" when there is no hard data on the site you mention yet?? *confused*
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It takes several days, after the end of the reporting period, for them to gather the data. Not sure what day of the week the release new stuff. For the last three days, they've still been showing the week ending on the 19th. Any day now, the data for the week ending the 26th will show up, along with six days sales for Serenity CE.
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Why is this thread titled "Here Be Hard Data on Serenity CE Sales" when there is no hard data on the site you mention yet?? *confused*
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went to the local HMV here in Canada to purchse my copy and guess what? they were sold out! good news right? nope, seems they only ordered 3 copies to begin with. did i mention i live in Toronto?
HMV is not your friend!
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The latest sales figures finally showed up at this reporting site.
http://www.videobusiness.com/index.asp?layout=marketData&content=topdv
dsellers
Serenity CE was not in the Top 20.
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