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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. Fox Drops the Ball Yet Again by Luigi30 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So has Fox dropped another franchise on its way to success? Are they going to pick the ball back up like they did with Family Guy?

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  2. To the point. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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."

    Ladies and Gentlemen. Now THOSE are fans.

  3. Quick Comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You guys need to get the idea out of your head that a highly devoted fanbase is the same as a large fanbase. Just because some rather limited amounts of seats sell out instantly doesn't mean the movie can't flop.

  4. Re:Man, Fox really dodged a bullet by furiousgeorge · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >>so if 5 million sets were sold, that's only $75 million.

    did anybody here pass economics? Ok... how about at least TOOK economics?

    There's a big difference between revenue and profit.

    Going from the math above, fox POSSIBLY brought in $75 million for the DVD's (that's not counting promotional costs, etc etc).

    Did the shows cost nothing to produce? 14 episodes of a SciFi show.... i would bet $5million an episode is a reasonable estimate. Thats $70 million in costs right there. Plus marketing, blah blah blah.

    Yes the DVD has been a hit. In numbers. But you can't say it made fox a fortune. It more than likely is just covering the costs that the show LOST during its run.