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Disappointing
Posted by Dorkafork Imagine Hollywood were to make a movie that wasn't a remake, that wasn't based on a TV show from the '70s or '80s. A movie that wasn't based on a video game. Imagine, also, that when that movie was released, that it got good reviews including one in which a world famous science fiction author calls it the best science fiction movie ever. How would you expect that movie to do at the box office? Not all that great. Serenity is projected to have a final take of around $28 million, not enough to cover it's budget of $39 million. I still hope it will be a sleeper hit. It's hard to believe it's not doing better. There are the reviewers who like it well enough to buy the Firefly DVDs, the reviewer who thinks Whedon's dialogue is his "chief weakness" (?!) yet thinks Serenity is terrific*... It's just sad to think that we'll sooner see a Street Hawk movie remake than a Serenity sequel. Oh well, at least we'll have Snakes On A Plane. *Shudder* (Incidentally, Amazon.com lists the top DVD sellers by the hour. And here* is how well Firefly has been doing by the hour. It hasn't dropped out of the top 10 in any hour in the past 3 weeks, regularly beating DVDs like Lost: Season 1 and the new Family Guy DVD they've been advertising.) *links found through TBOTCOTW Posted by Dorkafork at October 16, 2005 09:24 PM | TrackBack (1) Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsI took my 14-year-old son and his friend to see Serenity and I was disappointed. I was hoping for a great science fiction movie and I got a pretty good science fiction television show. Kind of like Star Trek, space opera with pretensions. Give me Blade Runner! Posted by: DBL at October 17, 2005 01:15 PM Neat! Now I don't have to write this post. Posted by: Matt Moore at October 17, 2005 01:30 PM BTW, I think this movie will easily make back its budget. That $28 million doesn't include many overseas markets and obviously doesn't include DVD sales. Posted by: Matt Moore From what I hear, aside from Star Wars, this is pretty typical for a Sci-Fi movie these days. I mean, thinking about it, what was the last big Sci-Fi blockbuster? Can you think of it, excluding Star Wars? Posted by: Adam at October 17, 2005 05:57 PM In any case, my private hope is that because of the clear following Firefly has and the so-so performance in the theaters, the diminished chances of a sequel might end in the increased possibility of a return to TV. Posted by: Adam at October 17, 2005 05:59 PM Adam - The Matrix was a pretty big hit. Posted by: Matt Moore at October 17, 2005 09:40 PM Bah. If you can call that Sci-Fi. Fine. You win. The Matrix was definately a big hit; but it also had some recognizable faces in the cast, which is an advantage that Serenity lacked. But yeah, you kind of got me there. Posted by: Adam at October 17, 2005 10:29 PM Well it wouldn't have killed the studio to release an ad or two, for heaven's sake. I got the preview and the watch-the-crazy-fans-in-Jayne-hats ad on my TiVo, and a bunch of bloggers got to see it a couple days early, but that was all the promotion for it I saw in this country. It was No 1 last weekend in the UK, though, and every major newspaper seemed to have a nice long review with a separate interview with at least one of the stars, like someone actually threw a proper junket. Posted by: ninme at October 18, 2005 01:05 AM I'm sure they'll turn a profit after the overseas market, but man, $11 million. That's a lot of DVDs to make up for that gap. Posted by: dorkafork at October 18, 2005 04:02 AM well, if everyone who got a Firefly box set gets a Serenity DVD, we'll be set Posted by: Adam at October 18, 2005 07:37 AM ninme - I saw ads for it on teevee several times. But I watch a lot of teevee. Adam - I think the Firefly set has sold somewhere between 500k and 1 million copies. If they sell 1 million DVDs of Serenity at 20 bucks a pop (probably a high estimate for both sales and price) they'll make $20 million in revenue. But how much of that 20 bucks is profit? Three dollars? Five? I don't think they'll come close to 11 million in profit from the DVD alone. Posted by: Matt Moore at October 18, 2005 01:54 PM Adam, don't expect a return to TV in the near future . FOX still reserves the TV rights for quite a few more years and Whedon said he'll never work with them again. Posted by: D. Hunt at October 21, 2005 03:58 PM viagra . 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