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Groening Confident on Futurama Relaunch
friedo writes "Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, says there may yet be hope for a renewed Futurama series, thanks to high DVD sales and syndication ratings. Comments from David X. Cohen: 'Three months ago, I would have said we were going to start tomorrow ... And one month ago I would also have said we were going to start tomorrow. So...my current estimate is that we're starting tomorrow.'"
I love Firefly, but it doesn't have either one of those going for it.
I haven't heard much about the success of the Firefly movie (Serenity)...but I liked it completely... They didn't need to kill **** and the ******, but what the hell..it was still good.... They left it wide open for continuation.
(Above names censored for those who haven't seen Serenity yet...by the way, it's out on DVD TODAY....Someone is giving it to me for Christmas, so I have to wait 'til Sunday)
We can hope.
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According to the article, Futurama is getting resurrected because of high syndication ratings and a large number of DVD sales. I love Firefly, but it doesn't have either one of those going for it.
Firefly was (at one time) in the top 10 DVDs on Barnes and Noble and in the top 50 on Amazon, the only two major retail outlets to publish their sales statistics. I'd say that is pretty popular for the series. The movie did alright at the box office, but nothing spectacular. It certainly did well enough so that Whedon can get funding for another if he is so inclined. I doubt we'll see a revival of the series, but it is certainly not out of the question.
All existing Futurama episodes have been released on DVD. If you own all four seasons, that's the lot. There were four productions seasons. Fox spread them over five years of television and used "We've still got enough leftover episodes for a whole fifth year, we don't need more" as a partial excuse to halt production on the show.
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Jhonen says no. He hates the assholes at Nick, and they pretty much hate him for being so anti-social. Google around a little.
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Overtimes are pretty rare in the NFL, and when they do happen, they're usually not that long. The fact of the matter is that the TV stations only schedule 3 hours for NFL games, when the average game length is over 3 hours. On top of that, the games never start exactly at 4:15. It's a recipe for disaster, but it's no one's fault except for the networks.
Serenity is currently sitting at #1 on Amazon.com's DVD sales chart. The Firefly series DVD set is at #6. Not bad for a cancelled TV show that by all account "nobody" saw. Joss Whedon has said time and again that the DVD sales for Serenity will decide on the fate of the universe the movie and series are set in. I'm a pretty pessimistic Browncoat, but #1 on Amazon for a film that had almost no marketing seems pretty encouraging to me.
I'm interested to know where you got this idea. Did Whedon say it somewhere? Or some other figure that would be in the position to know?
By all accounts that I've heard and read, Serenity was a bit of a bomb. According to Box Office Mojo, Serenity had a production budget of 39 million and hasn't even broken even yet. That counts world-wide sales and it's effectively done with its theater run. Marketing costs aren't factored in at all. Not breaking even doesn't sound like "doing alright" to me!
It's coming out on DVD very soon and it historically does very well in that market. I don't know enough about the movie industry to know if that counts when they decide on financing new movies, though. I'm crossing my fingers...
I am as much a Serenity fan as any other non-Browncoat Firefly fan, but until somebody in the know tells otherwise, I'm going to have to conclude the the movie was a flop.
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Though I don't have Showtime, I and a lot of people I know would gladly change that for this show.
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I found an error in the article:
"Signing on with Planet Express, a space courier service, he befriends a one-eyed alien, Leela (Katey Sagal)..."
She's not an alien, she's a mutant. DUH.
You're looking at the total sales charts for the year. I was talking about the daily sales charts. Y'know, the one you see if you click DVD on the main page.
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Right hand side right there. Sales for the whole year tend to be a little low for films released 10 days before the year ends, after all.
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