Should a TV show movie cater to a new audience??
POSTED BY: lwaves
UPDATED: Friday, November 30, 2007 20:56
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Also works for movies based on books. Re: The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series.
Research helps.
Maybe that isn't quite the same, because most books have some kind of retelling if they are a sequel.
It's one of the reasons I'm hesitant to go see The Golden Compass . It's a book I've never read, and the previews are not giving me enough info to decide if I want to spend all that money on fancy-dress polar bears.
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While I understand fans the existing properties wanting a movie to not pander to new folks - the do your own research mentality - it really is unrelaistic in business terms. That approach will only draw in existing fans, and that is a quick way to die at the boxoffice.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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I would say that a television show would have to pander to a new audience as well because movies cost lots of money to make and they need as many people to attend as they can, but that goes doubley for a failed television show which lacked the ratings needed to keep it afloat. I will grant you that Fox did not really give Joss or Firefly a fighting chance at attaining those ratings, but that does not change things for the movie's sake of having to pander to new customers. I myself am a new fan of Firefly/Serenity and I would not have known about it if I didn't see the Firefly Box set for sale. I had a vague recollection of the series when I purchased the box set, but no actual knowledge of seeing the show.
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