Thinking about scenarios for a Serenity return

POSTED BY: Bringitback
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 19:28
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September this year.

When the contracts get highlighted and Universal bigwigs have a look at the serenity situation what are they going to see?

-DVD sales not only doing well but also increasing interest and sales in Firefly.

-A cast and crew who gel together like no other

-A genius creator

-A Franchise that has kicked on, 4-5 years after a canceled TV show.

-Internet Sites and fans spread all over the world

-Me standing nearby with a Shotgun

What are peoples honest opinions?

have I left anything out?

I don't want one-eyed views on this, lets try and look at it from a Universal point of view.

Come September this year, what is going to happen?

Are they even going to look over the papers?

Serenity WILL come up on Universal's radar... time will tell if our dream comes to an end or rises like the phoenix from the ashes.

Talk to me people. I'm having one of my weekly rants

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Originally posted by Bringitback:
September this year.

When the contracts get highlighted and Universal bigwigs have a look at the serenity situation what are they going to see?

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- steady and/or increasing Official Merchandise sales and license fees

- Nathan Fillion in a hit TV series Drive

- Nathan Fillion in a hit movie Waitress

- Nathan Fillion in at least one other Lost episode

- Good returns on Universal movie White Noise: The Light.

http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/
- June 2007 Fans arranged over 50 Serenity Charity Screenings raising over $100,000. Hopefully, even in countries where Serenity never played in theaters. Hopefully, some news coverage. (Last year: 47 screenings raised over $65,000 )

- money still coming in from Serenity Box Office. Theaters screening the movie on their own http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/otherscreenings.html. And Charity screenings film rental fees ($250 x # of films) . How many movies does Universal have that still do that two years after release.

Think. Universal. Think. If you released Serenity in all those countries that you didn't already. Or re-released it in select cities US, UK and Aussieland.


pic from http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/

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We need to buy as much Serenity stuff as we can afford, twice as much if we dont like our kids that much, hahah sorry a Mal ref. hahah


I plan on going to the Austin showing, to show my support.

Hey not to change the subject, but we browncoats need to run over to www.cinescape.com and post on the new star trek movie. alot of people are tired of star trek and want it to go to bed. so i posted that yea we need more firefly. hahaah

dont know waht kinda reply i will get, but it helps spread the word.

thanks


Keep Flying!!

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Originally posted by Tholo:
Hey not to change the subject, but we browncoats need to run over to www.cinescape.com and post on the new star trek movie. alot of people are tired of star trek and want it to go to bed. so i posted that yea we need more firefly. hahaah

dont know waht kinda reply i will get, but it helps spread the word.

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"alot of people are tired of star trek and want it to go to bed." These may not actually be people. The ones making these comments may be trolls. And trolls post this sort of thing just to get people mad.

I love Star Trek. I love Firefly. It is great to invite the Star Trek fans to discover Firefly, just don't get tricked into talking bad about Star Trek or Star Wars. Won't get any Star Trek fans to find Firefly that way and the trolls won't listen anyways...trolls are in it to upset people. I think trolls hate the fact that others love.

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Originally posted by Anonymous1:
- Nathan Fillion in at least one other Lost episode

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Really? Cool.

Don't forget

- Summer Glau on the FOX show The Sarah Connor Chronicles (cross your fingers that this one lasts)

- Gina Torres in the Chris Rock movie I Think I Love My Wife (hope this one does well)

- Jewel Staite in Stargate: Atlantis (again?)

and more. Every little bit helps.


Rules and voting: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=22892

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As per my entry in another thread, they're sadly also going to remember that Serenity wasn't a huge box-office gross. Of the 19 movies that Universal did in 2005, Serenity was one of the bottom 4 that had neither a profit margin nor a return on investment, even factoring in a worldwide gross. I don't know how Serenity did in DVD sales (Wikipedia says they did ~$10 million as of a year ago), but their world box-office gross was $39 million, which was also roughly their budget on the picture.

Serenity was, sad to say, not an incredible success for Universal Studios in 2005. And sequels often perform worse than their originals, though I think we can expect that a Serenity sequel would do better. Still, there's no guarantee that Universal knows that fact.

At this point, I don't think one can make a prediction either way. Universal might pick it up or might not, and our only option is to be hopeful.

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Originally posted by yinyang:

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Don't forget
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- Jewel Staite in Stargate: Atlantis (again?)

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She played a wraith. Adopted daughter of a scientist who was trying to find a cure for his daughter so she didn't have to drain people. Didn't look human but it was Jewel.

She is going to have a recurring role on Atlantis--not as that wraith.

And Morena is on Stargate SG1.

Jewel also has a movie coming out this year I think "The Tribe".

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