What a crappy cover for such a great movie. “Experience The Ultimate Action Adventure”, what a cheesy tagline. Any of the movie posters would’ve been a better cover. I guess the good news to take from this is that the DVD is being released on December 20th. There is more info and menu screenshots at DVDAnswers
If you haven’t been paying attention, Serenity is the movie sequel to the cancelled Fox series Firefly. Firefly was given the usual Fox treatment, air it on a Friday, show episodes out of order, and preempt episodes with specials like “When Animals Attack”. It was cancelled after 11 episodes and released on DVD, where it sold extremely well. The sales were strong enough to convince Universal to secure the movie rights and to allow Joss Whedon to make Serenity.
Serenity did poorly at the box office. After the first weekend, ticket sales dropped 50%. And that is with strong word of mouth. From what I’ve heard, the people who saw Serenity without watching Firefly/knowing Firefly existed thought it was wonderful. But it still did miserable at the box office. Even with strong DVD sales, it’s unlikely there’ll be sequels to Serenity. And you know, Serenity needs a sequel real bad.
As much as I hate Fox for cancelling Firefly, you still have to appreciate the work they do. They constantly take chances on shows. Some of the best network tv is on Fox. But Fox is a business, and they aim to make money. So they play it smart, and even if they cancel a show, they still put out a DVD box set. If it weren’t for the Firefly box set, I never would’ve watched the entire series and fall in love with the show.
But you know what is amazing, I would’ve sworn that I had never seen Firefly before it was released on DVD, but Long dug this up
Session Start (AIM – vonstroodl:MadTobago1013): Sat Sep 28 01:02:14 2002 [20:39] vonstroodl: firefly’s a pretty good show [20:39] MadTobago1013: and i noticed that there is that one scene where trinity kicks a guards shotgun and flips it over and shoots him in the back that fox skipped over [20:39] MadTobago1013: yea it is
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Fox-apologist! I’ve got your name on my “Appendix of Villians” in my “Book of Revolution” near my doodle books resting on my shelf. Its scrawled in blood and highlighted with tear stains. I hope they make a Wonderfalls movie