A new firefly fan with an implausible scenario
POSTED BY: Igor
UPDATED: Sunday, March 2, 2008 07:28
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All told Universal may have made 11 mill form the movie. Sales of DVDs were a lot higher than I wrote. Missed a brain connection. Anyway, read about it here.
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?threadid=59843
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It took all of ten minutes to get me hooked by the show. I'd love to see more TV episodes, more movies, more anything Firefly/Serenity. I'd have to agree though that publicly funding production ain't gonna happen. Spreading the word, that's what we can and should do. I found Firefly two weeks ago, and I aim to stick around a bit, see where this ship's headed.
Don't stop thinking, don't stop talking 'bout the greatest gorram 'verse ever created!
"Can't Take the Sky from Me."
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Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:
...Hard to dispute numbers.
No. It Ain't...
Depends upon whose numbers are being used , the assumptions that are being made , ab initio , and so on...
Dogmatic statements won't get new adventures aboard Serenity finished...But they'll certainly not prevent it either...
Mark Twain made the best point about it...He said there's Lies , Damned Lies , and Statistics...
That's how all fallacious assumptions come to be regarded as truth...Supported by a chain of Lies told in that particular order...
Not aimin' to take any particular folk to task here , but these types of posts occur in frequent rashes...Usually , with an influx of ' new ' folk that have been bitten by a bug...from the order Lampyridae...class-code zero-three dash K sixty-four...'Firefly'...
Good to include the 'Source' material...It helps in getting to the heart of matters...
The original poster in that thread is nobody's fool...Although I have some doubts about the veracity of some of his numbers , at least he uses the available data to draw some correct conclusions...
A bit further on , he states , somewhat awkwardly : "...it looks like how much money Universal made off of DVD's to rental stores will stay unknown. Still, without that the movie still made money and as mentioned there's still international DVD sales, a possible special edition, plus pay-for-view cable stations."
But he concludes , correctly , though again , awkwardly (my edits for improved clarity) :
"...With all these different factors it's no wonder there's a thing such as 'Hollywood accounting' where they can make a profitable movie look like it made no money."
Truth be told , the 'numbers' that are really counting are how many new folk are coming into the ' Verse , how many 'veteran' Browncoats we are retaining , and how much product we're all buying...
Universal itself acknowledged back about 2 years ago that DVD sales had put Serenity into the black , so now the quibble is about matters of degree , and how 'creative' are the accountants ?
That's why it's always so pleasin' to meet all you 'newish' Browncoats , and say , Ni Howdy , Y'all , and Welcome Aboard !
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If the Numbers website keeps posting DVD sales figures backwards, we will have sales numbers for Serenity from 2005 and maybe even some Firefly numbers. They are at October 29, 2006 now and have not said anything about stopping.
For instance, now we know Nathan's other movie SLiTHER sold 221,875 units. We did not know that before.
SLiTHER DVD Sales: $4,541,528 Units: 221,875 as of 11/05/2006.
http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/weekly/2006/20061105.php
I'll keep checking.
We've got a new comic coming out March 12, 2008. I hope we get some figures on the sales of that.
Summer Glau is on Terminator: The Chronicles of Sarah Connor
Jewel Staite on Stargate: Atlantis
Adam Baldwin on Chuck.
Morena Baccarin in a straight to DVD Stargate SG1 movie. Hopefully, we will get some numbers on that. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0010YSD7M
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1 in Movies & TV
Nathan Fillion on Desperate Housewives. Movie Trucker in post production. Chilled in Miami being filmed now.
And Joss he is working on tv show Dollhouse.
The more people see of our big darn heroes work, the more they want to see of our big darn heroes work...which leads them back to Firefly/Serenity.
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