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Serenity to Premiere at Edinburgh Film Fest
CABridges writes "Serenity, the science-fiction/western/comedy/drama based on Joss Whedon's TV show Firefly will receive its official Gala Premiere Screening at the 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival on Monday, August 22nd, with a 'Reel Life' interview with Whedon the next day.
Serenity will make its U.S. debut September 30th and will open in the UK & Ireland on October 7th.
More info available at the official movie website."
If you live in the states, get in there and swich on - Scifi are showing the entire series (followed by new episodes of Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and the new Battlestar galatica)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
...and assigning it the death-slot (Friday 8pm), and cutting the advertising for it. I don't think they ever really wanted Joss to have a hit on FOX. Someone made the deal, and someone else got put in charge of fulfilling FOX's obligations, is my theory.
They were pissed that it cost so much to make, while "reality" was dirt-cheap and selling like hotcakes, so they torpedoed it. I hope the who cancelled the TV series all get invitations to the L.A. premiere. And then I hope that ABC picks up Firefly, and those same execs have to watch Firefly's second season kick the out of Fox's lineup.
I was lucky enough to see one of the previews and can can safely say that the movie in NOT a remake of the pilot. The story stands on it's own. There is a nice introduction to bring people who have not seen the series up to speed and plenty of new material for the fans. The movie also wraps-up a number of story lines left dangling after the series was canceled.
Considering the craptastic movies that have been released this year, it may turn out to be the best movie of the summer.
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
No, it only looks like Martial arts. She's an expert dancer (look close and see how her movement is more like a ballet than an attack) and a Genius (aka able to calculate angles/force/etc near instantly) refer to the episode she closes her eyes after calcing the angles and shoots three bad guys. Basicly when she is fighting in the trailer, think of it as accounting for all the variables and pre-planning the optimal strat.
The comic book that bridges the movie and the series is now available. Issue one of the three issue Dark Horse mini series was released (in the US) this week.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon