OMG YOU LIKE A MOVIE ABOUT ASTRONAUTS. YOU MUST ALL BE ASTRONAUTS.

1/16/2006 5:58:06 PM

OMG YOU DONT WANT TO SEE THE MOVIE ABOUT ASTRONAUTS

YOU MUST BE ASTROPHOBICS!!!!

GOD DAMN REDNECKS

1/16/2006 11:19:05 PM

OMG I GOD HE SAID REDNECK!!!!

1/17/2006 1:41:14 PM

OMG IS AN ACRONYM!!!11

1/17/2006 7:56:28 PM

Quote :

"The world needs more space westerns. It reminded me of a live action Cowboy Bebop"

That's exactly what I thought when I saw the movie. Live Action Cowboy Bebop.

It was a decent movie. I've never seen the tv show, but I'd watch it now.

[Edited on January 17, 2006 at 9:45 PM. Reason : eh]

1/17/2006 9:44:10 PM

Go buy the DvD plz

1/17/2006 10:39:10 PM

yes please buy the DVD

one day you might get that chance

1/18/2006 12:16:10 PM

I want to see another season of this series

1/18/2006 2:12:55 PM

so bad

1/18/2006 2:25:07 PM

Season 2 Petition me thinks

http://www.fireflyseason2.com/BrowncoatProfile.asp

1/23/2006 9:39:55 PM

online petitions never amount to anything

that being said, I'll sign it

Actually, after looking at it, it isn't just quite a petition. It's a group of people trying to gauge the interest in having season 2 on an "on demand" basis (where you pay per episode, similar to what those thugs at iTunes are running). This just might have a chance...

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 10:03 AM. Reason : update]

1/24/2006 10:00:51 AM

signed it

and got 2 others to sign it

1/24/2006 1:44:21 PM

signed it

but i dont see this working ever

1/24/2006 2:43:15 PM

well hope

thats all you can do

1/24/2006 2:49:20 PM

fireflyfans.net suggested a similar thing (producing direct to dvd) as soon as the series was cancelled initially, I wonder if this will be complied with that list...I think its a pretty valid idea, I mean really with dvr/tivo I don't really watch scheduled programing anyway so why not just release it directly rather than broadcasting it?

1/24/2006 5:23:22 PM

ntlb

2/4/2006 12:50:10 PM

online petitions never amount to anything

2/4/2006 12:54:21 PM

yeah i know but damn it, what else can we do?

2/4/2006 3:37:17 PM

burn things?

2/4/2006 6:00:06 PM

Collect an army of attractive people to seduce any suits in charge.

2/6/2006 2:14:15 PM

^sounds like a plan. too bad chicks who like firefly are fugly

2/6/2006 5:51:09 PM

just give Inara enough money and she will use her abilities

2/7/2006 10:17:16 AM

Quote :

"A friend just saw Nate Fillion, Summer Glau and Gina Torres coming out of one of the exec buildings at Paramount where they are putting together the new CW unit. Hmmmmm? Will Firefly fly again?"

http://www.eonline.com/Insider/Boards/ann.jspa?annID=381

This is massive speculation however if any of you caught the column a few days ago about how Buffy was pivotal in the history of both WB and UPN it would make sense that they might be anxious to revive a Whedon project. This could potentially be the most amazing come back in TV, but I don't want to get my hopes up.

^Companions choose their clients and I can't imagine any amount of money being enough to get her to choose the mental leper that is: A Fox Network Executive.

Here's a [lengthy] article on the efforts that were made to save this show besides online petitions:

http://emahollywood.com/firefly.html

[Edited on February 8, 2006 at 6:50 AM. Reason : ...]

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2/8/2006 6:48:40 AM

CW unit?

2/8/2006 4:11:41 PM

UPN/WB are merging into CW (the C is for CBS which owns UPN and the W is warner)

2/8/2006 4:37:40 PM

oh wow cool

2/9/2006 10:59:48 AM

It sounds feasible that a new CW network would pick up the show, but doesn't FOX still hold the TV rights?

2/9/2006 11:00:48 AM

So, will they actually try to get ratings this time?

2/9/2006 11:32:29 AM

they could try to show them in the correct order, for starters.

it would do wonders

2/9/2006 11:33:22 AM

no shit!

2/9/2006 11:36:38 AM

Wow, I hadn't heard anything about this. Up until now, I had thought that the CW was just going to be a joke. If they can resurrect Firefly, though, and give us some new episodes then I will be devoutly loyal.

2/9/2006 12:03:44 PM

me 2

2/9/2006 12:05:02 PM

^^I think if done right CW should be a pretty good network, to me WB has always been a fairly strong network for not being one of the big 3/4 and UPN has been kinda blah for the most part, however the two have always kinda gone after similar demographics, just at different times. Hopefully whereas there were two mediocre networks they can actually make one fairly strong one, and maybe as they're not competing against each other there will be more series that get a chance. Really it would be awesome if they just kept picking off shows that are good but not working on major networks...but perhaps I hope too much.

Here is the column that I refered to, its a pretty interesting read if you're interested in whedon stuff and/or CW merger...

http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-fi-buffy29jan29,0,7055231.story?coll=la-home-headlines

2/9/2006 4:47:56 PM

bttt

2/10/2006 10:49:22 AM

Quote :

"but doesn't FOX still hold the TV rights"

I would think they do, however there's nothing that says they couldn't sell those rights. I think there was a post on this tread or the Serenity one that said there was some clause that the show couldn't be made for x number of years, but that's the only place I've ever seen that said, and it was said without citing a source credible or otherwise. It doesn't make sense to me why fox would hold on to the rights of a show they have no interest in making more of if there's a viable offer on the table, I think that's what's kept it off the air, no one willing to put up the texas$ needed to produce this show.

2/12/2006 11:11:34 AM

FOX SUCKS!

2/13/2006 11:54:15 AM

Possibly the best Valentine's gift ever:

Quote :

"I've heard the CW is considering bringing it back as a series, miniseries or movie for next season. Hurrah! For you who missed my message board posting, on Tuesday, Nate Fillion, Summer Glau and Gina Torres were seen coming out of one of the exec buildings at Paramount, where they are putting together the new CW unit."

Upgrade previous massive speculation to highly possible.

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Kristin/Trans/Archive2006/060213b.html
Last Question

Also Joss' response to questions of a Serenity Sequel at the opening of Date Movie:

Quote :

"JW: Still waiting to see how the dvd does, I'm not staying awake at night and holding my breath, I am happy with the movie, happy with the way it's been received, if somebody calls me and says let's make another one I will but I have other things to do in the mean time like be here."

[Edited on February 14, 2006 at 8:19 AM. Reason : Joss]

2/14/2006 8:17:21 AM

just bring back the series, PLEASE!!!

2/14/2006 11:07:31 AM

mmmmmmmmmmmm, excelent

2/14/2006 3:36:42 PM

bttt

2/16/2006 2:26:24 PM

Still hoping to hear more CW news...

2/16/2006 3:07:49 PM

yes

2/16/2006 4:10:07 PM

No CW news, it is still basically rumor, it was noted that Joss did a post updating people on his various projects and said that a Serenity Sequel was still possible depending on DVD sales...no mention of Firefly back on tv. Either that could just him being coy/not wanting to get peoples hopes up or it really is just a rumor...we shall see.

In somewhat good news Serenity has started making money for Universal, estimates are used but I think they're fairly conservative:

Quote :

" Serenity breaks even and becomes profitable on DVD There was quite a bit of discussion a while back whether the movie Serenity would make any money for Universal. Well, it seems now on DVD that the movie has moved out of the red and is now making money for Universal. It hasn't exactly made a huge amount of money and there's still some way to go for a sequel to happen, but at least the movie is no longer climbing out of the red. Here's some figures and number crunching for anyone who's interested: Serenity costs $39 million to make ($1 million under it's $40 million budget) and while the advertising budget was never made public, people have estimated around $10 million. So overall the movie costs around $49 million for Universal to make. Now Serenity made a disappointing $25 million domestically and $13 million internationally for a total of $38 million at the box office. Now following the 55% rule, where studios get around 55% of the total of the box office, Universal only made $21 million from the box office. Now there's been no official sales figures for Serenity since it's been released on DVD, only where it's ranked on the sales charts. However, there have been sales announcements for other DVD's above and bellow Serenity and people have managed to do some number crunching and worked out that Serenity sold from 1.104 to 1.605 million copies in the first week of release! Some more number crunching was done to figure out Serenity sold around 825 thousand copies for January 2006. So by now it's definitely over 2 million (possibly high as 2.5 million). Now studios generally take around $12 dollars profit per DVD, with the remaining split between the retailer and distributer. So that's $24 million from the DVD sales, already more than the studio made from the box office. Meanwhile VideoBusiness.com tracked Serenity in bringing in over $9 million in DVD rentals. It has since fallen off the chart, but at the rate of it's decline it's safe to estimate that it manage to make $10 million before dropping too far. Now the tv rights for Serenity were sold to NBC for a 3 movie package deal for $26 million. Now Serenity was hardly the top movie in the deal, so let's low ball it and say Serenity only gets $5 million out of that deal. So that's $21 million from the box office, $24 million from DVD sales, $10 million from rentals, and around $5 million from tv rights for a total of $60 million. With Serenity costing $49 million to make and advertise it's estimated that Universal has made $11 million off of the movie. Not nearly enough for Universal to invest in another movie, but there's still profit to be made. The DVD has yet been released internationally and if the domestic sales are any indication, the DVD will make more money than the theatre box office. Especially since Universal International has included a lot of cool extras in the various international editions, the Australian version has a second disk of extras and comes in a cool metal tin, plus one retailer is offering free posters with the movie, another retailer offering Serenity mouse-mats and all sorts of other cool stuff. Meanwhile the DVD has sold well enough for the talked about Special Edition to be made available. The extras have already been produced for the Australian edition and ready to go, the only extra thing that Joss Whedon wants to do is add full cast audio commentary. Meanwhile those calculations didn't include anything from licensing which has been doing really well. The comic book, movie novelization, books, official t-shirts, RPG have all sold better than expected and more of all these items are on it's way. There's more money to be made out of this franchise yet and a sequel or possibily even a direct-to-DVD sequel might still yet happen."

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=59843

2/18/2006 6:12:41 AM

doesnt it just piss you off that movies like Brokeback Mountain make 5 times what Serenity made, simply because they are PC.

[Edited on February 18, 2006 at 9:42 AM. Reason : i know it pisses me off to no end]

2/18/2006 9:41:38 AM

No I thought brokeback was a pretty good movie besides just being PC... It pisses me off that movies like Wallace and Grommit make five times what Serenity does.

2/18/2006 2:44:22 PM

Serenity deserved a lot more money, but it will get it from DVD sales. Just hope to see another one since they cancelled Firefly TO MAKE MOVIES

2/18/2006 3:34:24 PM

^^wallace and grommit was established many years ago. you should go with some stupid movie thats been done a multiple times that still makes tons of money. how bout final destination 3, which just recently came out and already has twice as much as serenity?

[Edited on February 18, 2006 at 6:13 PM. Reason : .]

2/18/2006 6:13:37 PM

^Wallace and Grommit sticks out because it was top of the box office when Serenity stopped being shown where I am, and despite how long its been established its still overrated imo.

2/19/2006 7:16:28 AM

Brokeback Mountain was fucking terrible

2/20/2006 11:01:13 AM

I have tons of serenity posters still. IM me at tiberseptm if you want them. I may just leave them somewhere on campus tommorow for people to take if I can't get rid of them. I have large and small posters. A couple of the large ones and probably about 40 of the small posters.

2/20/2006 3:39:34 PM