WE DID IT !!! Serenity opens #1 in the UK! by bobnsam

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WE DID IT !!! Serenity opens #1 in the UK!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 12:26 AM

Serenity opens #1 in the UK! (taken from http://forum.cantstopthesignal.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10488 )

#1 new opener!

#1 movie of the weekend!

#1 gross per screen!

The only country to have growth from Friday to Saturday!

The UK becomes the first country to completely buck the trend, with Serenity soaring to the top of the charts.

WELL DONE EVERYBODY.

Press release and figures to follow shortly. We did good, we did real good.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 12:50 AM

XEROGRAVITY

Woot! WTG Brits. Once again, the "sceptered island on a silvery sea" delivers.

XG

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 12:52 AM

BERENTAUR

Thank god for the UK (I'm half British so I think I can feel a tiny bit of pride in the fact that half of me is one of you... makes no sense, but I don't care I'm just that happy).

It makes me feel a little better after the US and Aus box office. The numbers in Australia started off well, but fell away really quickly... bad Australia.

I'm going to see it again soon (my 8th time and I'm still enjoying it and noticing little details that make me love it even more)
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Monday, October 10, 2005 12:56 AM

KHIMBAR

I think I speak for us all when I say to the rest of the world...

you're welcome.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 12:57 AM

RELFEXIVE

We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

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"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:10 AM

ELLIE

Congrats all! I've always said I'm on the wrong side of the pond! *hugs the UK Browncoats* Out of curiousity, does anyone have an estimate (or a final tally) for the numbers at the UK Box office (or an estimate for non-US sales thus far)?

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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:14 AM

BOBNSAM

The website for the details is:

http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/statistics/boxoffice/

But it hasn't been posted yet. Nathan said he expected it to make $100 billion - so maybe they are still counting the UK share of that hahahaha

J

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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:16 AM

3HEADEDMONKEY

bloody good show, lads.

Cheerio!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:16 AM

CALLIOPE79

Whooot!! Congrats to all of my UK friends and fellow Browncoats... you done well

The UK may not be the biggest of countries but you're damn mighty and you've made the rest of us quite proud! Keep it up... word of mouth is ever so important right now!

*holds her British pride flag up*

(Heh.. I may not be British myself, but according to some, I am an honorary Brit and that's good enough for me!)

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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:18 AM

ELLIE

Heh, thanks for the link!! Also, Nathan said $100 billion, huh? I like that estimate :D Where did he post, or was it mentioned in an interview?

Sherie @-)---
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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:24 AM

ZARNYWHOOP

Well I'm full brit, the reason it's doing so well is that most of the british browncoats will see the film at least five times. I'm going back for my seventh visit tonite!

ZW

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Monday, October 10, 2005 1:28 AM

HAPPENSTANCE

This is great news, I was suprised to read it though because id read somewhere else that it was 9th this weekend here in the UK

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:10 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

It fell to 9th here in the States. So much for "word of mouth".

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:12 AM

FISHERMANSENEMY

I saw the pre-view in Birmingham, I saw the pre-release last thurdsay and I am taking 3 colleagues from work to see it tonight.

Glad to see that spreading the word is helping, or it could just be people going to see "A History of Violence" and needing to get their eyes cleaned by a proper film afterwards!!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:22 AM

PHOEBE

I have an unlimited card

So I've been going in every day and buying tickets with it.

You can NEVER stop the signal... cause my little island has great taste!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:29 AM

HAWK

YES!!!

This is a real "upper" for me; I go see Serenity yesterday, I think it's fXXXing brilliant (my brother was looking at me like I was a compulsively grinning mental patient on the journey home) I get on the 'net to talk it up and find everybody's being very fatalistic and solemn!

Anyway, I'll wave the Union Jack (yeah, the one that I don't own) and salute my countrymen (and ladies).

Now, I wonder how much stuff I can shift on e-Bay before this weekend, so I have the necessary funds for repeat viewings?

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:32 AM

BOBNSAM

Yeah Nathan said that in an interview on SKY Movies.

I have this and other interviews/reviews here as avi files - but no home for them.

I'll you know as soon as I have them uploaded somewhere....

J

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:32 AM

HAPPENSTANCE

I just wish my local cinema would hurry up and show Serenity. I went yesterday to see it but its too far to go see again and I really want to!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 2:50 AM

M4TT

Woo hoo !!! I've been to see it twice, once with two peeps from work and once with my girlfriend. Off to see it again next weekend, and possibly during the week.

It's had really good reviews from the 'high brow' media too. "Front Row" (radio 4 arts program) loved it, said Joss should be writing all of this sort of movie. How right they are ! Even Mark Kermode of Radio 5 Live really liked it, mentioning just how passionate us fans are about the show. He even said judging by the film he couldn't understand why the show was cancelled.

I have to say, with the talk that Joss is regarded as a hero for producing a sci-fi blockbuster with very little money and from within Hollywood, with the hugely positive critical response, and with the good box office despite no "big star opening" we surely haven't heard the last of the signal :-D.

Way to go Joss !! And way to go us !!

(Maybe the DVD will have an extra 6 hours of footage in it too. Maybe Joss was really sneaky and snuck in a new season of episodes whilst shotting the movie ;-) ).

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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:23 AM

NICOLACLARKE

Huzzah for the UK! I feel proud to have contributed to this, even if I only saw it once this weekend (am planning to go again tomorrow - OMJ it was fabulous...) - on Saturday evening in a packed cinema in the centre of Oxford. Audience response good - laughs in all the right places, gasps in *the* right place, and a general mood of intense concentration on the screen.

A couple of my friends went to a Friday night showing in York; they told me afterwards that there was a round of applause at the end!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:31 AM

FLYINGTAMS

Quote:
Originally posted by bobnsam:
Yeah Nathan said that in an interview on SKY Movies.

I have this and other interviews/reviews here as avi files - but no home for them.

I'll you know as soon as I have them uploaded somewhere....

Post them to the binaries newsgroup :)

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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:32 AM

BELLONA

SEE!!! MY POST-ITS WORKED!!! well, probably not...but it sounds good!!! THE BRITS HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!!! though i didn't really help, i used a free pass...

b

can't take the sky

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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:42 AM

This makes me so happy!!!

I saw it 3 times and convinced at least 5 other people to see it, hope that helped a bit

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Monday, October 10, 2005 3:54 AM

KAZZAHDRANE

I like to think that this Scottish Browncoat did his fair share of the work. I took 15 other people (13 were virgins of the 'verse) with me to see it on the opening night, and they all really enjoyed it.

For almost the first time in my life I'm proud to be British :P

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Monday, October 10, 2005 4:08 AM

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

YES!! Y'all make me proud to have been raised by an anglophile!!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 4:08 AM

ENGINEANGEL

*music* go UK, go UK, it's your birthday, it's your birthday! *music*

all those travelers over in the UK. May I just say - YOU ROCK!!! (in a british accent) woo hoooo!!!

i think i love you all.

now everyone keep it up!!!

keep flyin'
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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:08 AM

DONCOAT

Rule Brittania!

Maybe this is evidence that the folks that made it to this side of the pond really were the dregs, and the cream stayed over there...

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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:17 AM

DAWATTICUS

Well I think we done our part :)

I forced people into the cinema at the UGC ( cineworld ) in Glasgow at pointy stick-point and they were greatfull for it!

Excellent film, us Brits realise that.

( P.s whats a British accent ;) there are tons )

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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:34 AM

SOUPCATCHER

Best. Headline to start my morning with. Ever.

Congrats to all the UK Firefly fans!!!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:43 AM

WHIMSICALBRAINPAN

You guys burned my town to the ground in 1779; but somehow, this makes it alright. Just don't do it again (the burning, that is--see the film again and again!).

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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:43 AM

HOWARD

I think this collective "we did it"
is a delusion. The British press did it.
Plus nothing much else to see this week
did it.

The idea that a handful of British FIREFLY
fans influenced our whole nation is utterly
laughable!!

Howard
Manchester UK
hsm_melody@hotmail.com

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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:49 AM

CYBERSNARK

Congrats UK!

Hopefully this will help American/Canadian audiences sit up and take notice.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 5:58 AM

BROWNCOATMONK

Quote:
Originally posted by Howard:

I think this collective "we did it"
is a delusion. The British press did it.
Plus nothing much else to see this week
did it.

The idea that a handful of British FIREFLY
fans influenced our whole nation is utterly
laughable!!

Howard
Manchester UK
hsm_melody@hotmail.com

How defeatist. Wouldn't it be better to think that the UK is more enlightened than the USA (uh Flightplan sucks with writing only slightly better than Supercross) and Australia (Deuce Bigalow is their Jerry Lewis apparently).

Browncoat Monk

Ain't no place I can be since I found Serenity...

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:10 AM

BROWNCOATMONK

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:
Congrats UK!

Hopefully this will help American/Canadian audiences sit up and take notice.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

Hmm seems more than a little unlikely. We are already in that downward spiral and a movie that should be making a lot less than it is Flightplan (and some others too), but the fact remains that we are idiots here.

Browncoat Monk

Ain't no place I can be since I found Serenity...

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:11 AM

Way to go Mr.Spoiltheparty.

I honestly do think that the fans over hear made a difference. It only took a few people (well maybe a lot) to make the Serenity stall at Memorabilia, which turned brought the film to many many peoples attention.

Just one example but I'm sure there's many more. Congrats to every UK fan who did their bit to help.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:13 AM

GIXXER

That's just Howard for you. Take a look at the Telegraph thread...

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:15 AM

BELASERA

Brilliant!
Hey, any single boy variety British Browncoats... call me.

"I'll be in my bunk."

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:15 AM

KAZZAHDRANE

Quote:
Originally posted by Howard:

I think this collective "we did it"
is a delusion. The British press did it.
Plus nothing much else to see this week
did it.

The idea that a handful of British FIREFLY
fans influenced our whole nation is utterly
laughable!!

Howard

Hey I think we helped a lot. Even with good reviews this movie had very little publicity compared to stuff like the Wallace and Gromit movie which I expect will make a mint over the next few weeks.

Lots of Browncoats (here in the UK and abroad) have been encouraging friends/family who wouldn't normally go to see Serenity to check it out. I called my dad the other night to let him know how much I enjoyed the film (I've been hyping it a bit to my family lately) and he told me he already took my brother to see it earlier that evening and they both enjoyed it.

If the rest of my fellow UK fans got as many people to go as I did (17 at the last count)then I think we did a bloody good job and deserve congratulations!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:19 AM

KAZZAHDRANE

Quote:
Originally posted by belasera:

Hey, any single boy variety British Browncoats... call me.

Us UK Browncoat guys are MEN, not boys!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:21 AM

HOWARD

Yes you are right.
The section of the press that helped
was the movie enthusiast segment.
Then of course also people are getting
media from other countries so they are
seeing clips and reading about it on a
global level these days.

Maybe this will now spill over into
the rest of Europe.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:37 AM

HUITZIL

Quote:
Originally posted by Kazzahdrane:

Us UK Browncoat guys are MEN, not boys!

Err - and Girls / Women !!

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Monday, October 10, 2005 6:52 AM

KAZZAHDRANE

Quote:
Originally posted by huitzil:
Quote:
Originally posted by Kazzahdrane:

Us UK Browncoat guys are MEN, not boys!

Err - and Girls / Women !!

I meant "guys" as "males", not "folks in general including both genders" :D

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Monday, October 10, 2005 7:52 AM

KIZZIECSTARS

big group hug everyone! lets stick to the man, coz we are fandabeedozi, baby! hell, i skived p.e. to go see it!

peace out
Kizzie
XxX

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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:04 AM

EEP

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
It fell to 9th here in the States. So much for "word of mouth".

What's funny is that I went to see it last night here in Chicago. For an 8:30 showing on a Sunday night, our theater was surprisingly full—I'd say at least 60%. With a turnout like that for the end of the weekend, I really expected the movie to have done better at the box office overall.

Thank God for the UK. At least there's one place that knows what's what.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:14 AM

LIMINALOSITY

So good to hear! I suppose it wouldn't be the same, with internet ticket sales and all the modern conveniences, but I was accidentally in London (and Paris) during the opening week of "The Wall". Four block long lines of kids with spiked hair and leathers waiting to buy tickets at every theater, all day long. Was it that cool? OK, without the spiked hair and leathers, but maybe someone in a Firefly t-shirt waving a pennant here and there? Was it amazing? Did you meet new peeps at the theater?

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Monday, October 10, 2005 8:24 AM

198505

I sneeked out of work early on thursday to watch it, and took my 12 year old daughter to watch it with me on friday. I know, bad dad sneeking a chid underage into the film, but she likes the show as well, and I wasn't going to make her wait for the DVD.

'If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 9:27 AM

SIGGGY

There you go then. English people must read reviews then. Its's getting enough good reviews its time someone read them. Yay

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Monday, October 10, 2005 9:37 AM

PHOEBE

Quoted from cantstopthesignal.co.uk:

EXACT FIGURES

Weekend Total: £958,816
Screens: 355
Screen average: £2,701

The screen average is well above any of the competition.

There was apparently a 39% rise in viewers from Friday night to Saturday night, which completely throws off the opposite trend from places such as the USA.

Converted exactly to dollars, that's:

Weekend Total: $1,682,677.72
Screen Average: $4,739.58

Which is, what, just under four times greater than the USA's best day's screen average?

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Monday, October 10, 2005 10:22 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Phoebe:
Quoted from cantstopthesignal.co.uk:

EXACT FIGURES

Weekend Total: £958,816
Screens: 355
Screen average: £2,701

The screen average is well above any of the competition.

There was apparently a 39% rise in viewers from Friday night to Saturday night, which completely throws off the opposite trend from places such as the USA.

Converted exactly to dollars, that's:

Weekend Total: $1,682,677.72
Screen Average: $4,739.58

Which is, what, just under four times greater than the USA's best day's screen average?

That's not actually as big as Pride & Predudice or History of Violence last week. We're pretty lucky to be a number one with those figures.

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Monday, October 10, 2005 10:48 AM

PHOEBE

Yes, but we never claimed to be a drama with a cast of well known Hollywood actors who already have a hefty, well known resume. Serenity is a sci-fi movie with a cast of unknowns that was adapted from a cancelled TV show that didn't even last half a normal season. That in mind, I'd say it's done pretty well, whether or not the figures were huge.

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