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Second Round of Serenity Screenings Sold Out

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the just-can't-wait dept.

j1ggl3x writes "From a Rotten Tomatoes news article: 'Following the sell-out success of the May 5th pre-screenings, creator Joss Whedon recently announced that more advance previews of his movie Serenity would appear at twenty theaters in twenty cities, this time on May 26th. By the next morning, well before the official list of cities was posted, fans on the Serenity movie site and elsewhere had diligently located half the listings through trial and error and several of the locations were already sold out. Serenity hits theaters on September 30th.'"

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  1. hah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Serenity now!

    FP

  2. Man, Fox really dodged a bullet by blonde+rser · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing fox cancelled Firefly. There's clearly no public interest in that franchise.

    1. Re:Man, Fox really dodged a bullet by DarkTempes · · Score: 4, Funny

      the general film audience likes character development?

      i thought they just liked explosions and sex.

    2. Re:Man, Fox really dodged a bullet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      i thought they just liked explosions and sex.

      blinking lights...don't forget the blinking lights.

    3. Re:Man, Fox really dodged a bullet by Snaller · · Score: 2, Funny

      did anybody here pass economics?

      Yep, I walked past a class. Really hot chicks inside!

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  3. Re:guaranteed to fail by KillerDeathRobot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, the selling out of these theaters before the list of theaters showing it was even out is a good indication that this movie will tank.

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  4. I'm going to be asked to turn in my geek badge... by Caspian · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but who the hell is Joss Whedon, and what the hell is Serenity?

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  5. Wow. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dang, this is popular!

    They should make a TV show out of it or something...

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    1. Re:Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I don't think it would work as a TV show. It would probably only last a couple of seasons before it got canceled.

    2. Re:Wow. by UserGoogol · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sounds like it might be a bit of a niche though. What they should do to spice things up is air the show out of sequence. That'll add an air of mystery to the series which people will just eat up.

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  6. Re:I'm going to be asked to turn in my geek badge. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    google it, you dumass

  7. Fox cancelled it because of politics by DrJimbo · · Score: 4, Funny
    In the Firefly series the big bad was a combination of a corrupt corporation and a near fascist government.

    Fox couldn't stand having themselves portrayed as the baddies.

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  8. Re:guaranteed to fail by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Whedon was, if I recall, brought in as a script doctor on Titan A.E. It's fair to assume that what you liked about the movie was Whedon's work; what you hated was the director/studio's fault. (In fact, it's usually fair to assume that, for most movies, there's a good script lurking back there somewhere, it's just that they let the director get hold of it.)

    Related obliquely, if at all: the script doctor for the new Star Wars movie was the truly great playwright Tom Stoppard, which bodes well for the quality of dialogue in the new movie. But imagine if Lucas had somehow gotten David Mamet to touch up his dialogue:

    Obi-Wan: That's enough. You stop fucking Padme or you're out of the Clone Wars, pal.
    Anakin: Fuck you.
    Obi-Wan: Fuck me? Fuck me in hell. Fuck me in hell, pal. You read the plaque on the door. You're my fucking padawan, pal. I'm your master. I've made my decision.

  9. Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about Canada, eh?

    Joss, if you bring the movie here early then we will gladly give you some bacon and beer. Think about it and get back to me.

  10. Re:I just never "got" it. by MonkeyOfRage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, come on - admit that you loved it whenever characters would awkwardly and unconvincingly start sputtering Chinese for no apprehensible reason...

    Mind you, if there's even a chance that Morena Baccarin and Jewel Staite might be spanking each other, you can mark another ticket sold.

  11. Berman? by zCyl · · Score: 4, Funny

    the general film audience likes character development?

    i thought they just liked explosions and sex.

    Rick Berman? Is that you? Tell us more of this great wisdom about how to pummel a science fiction franchise into the ground.

  12. Oh no, you didn't... by el_benito · · Score: 2, Funny

    The killing I can deal with... Betrayal for money I can cope with... But dude, those Hawaiian shirts just crossed the line.

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  13. Re:I'm going to be asked to turn in my geek badge. by zrk · · Score: 2, Funny

    The most important thing to note here is that unlike Han Solo, Mal will always shoot first.

  14. Re:just out of curiousity? by forkazoo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think most of the existing "browncoats" are virgin viewers. How else do you explain people going to Fandango and trying every possible city to get tickets before the showing was announced. If they had girlfriends.... Well, they might have had better things to do.

    Well, I got my ticket!