[BIG News!] Serenity Locked Into *50th* Day Of Screening! by TallAussieBrowncoat

We keep this up, she'll be flying while the DVD sells - in FEBRUARY '06!

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 4:08 AM

GATORMARC

Quote:
Originally posted by Causal:
See, now, how come the Australians got it, and the Americans didn't? It was such a shiny movie, even if you weren't a Flan...

Well, Serenity is still playing in the US this weekend too.

GatorMarc

Eat 'em up, chomp, chomp.

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Friday, November 11, 2005 4:36 AM

CAUSAL

Yeah, but in what? 100 theaters? Been gone from my town for 3 weeks now.

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

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Friday, November 11, 2005 4:58 AM

I have no exact number, but we're talking Australia-wide! SEVERAL cinemas, each housing 1-30 cinemas each!

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 5:01 AM

Hey, we'll hold "Australia Valley" as long as we can! ;)

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 5:05 AM

So follow our lead. HOYTS killed her off until Greater Union was a success!

Now they BOTH keep it running!

And remember: weekends(fri-sun) are THE time to boost support the most!

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 6:33 AM

SCOUSERATHEART

You BLOODY BEAUTY!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers for that!

Incredible success - keep it going!!!!!

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Friday, November 11, 2005 1:50 PM

Hey, if we hit 64, I'll be amazed! 2 months for a so-called bomb? Chyeah, right! Bomb my behind! XD

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:18 PM

MINDREADER

serenity aint playin wer i live no more

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:20 PM

RIVERGODDESS

Rock on, Aussies! That's amazing! My mum is an Australian herself, so needless to say I've been down under many times, mostly Sydney and Port Maquarie. I hope Serenity has those few extention days!

Too Right!

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:38 PM

DARKJESTER

Aussies, yeah! You're doing us proud!!!

There is only one movie in my memory that stayed in theaters AFTER it came out in rental stores, and that was "Dirty Dancing". Can we do it with "Serenity"????

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:40 PM

Few days...?

We have 50 days locked in, the "Battle for Australia Valley" still going strong. ;)

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:41 PM

We can try!

I aim to misbehave!

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:42 PM

LISSA

Quote:
Originally posted by GatorMarc:
Well, Serenity is still playing in the US this weekend too.

not in boston:(

~lissa, retired spwhore

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Friday, November 11, 2005 2:54 PM

It is still in Raleigh, NC.

Not Greensboro, NC - ended last night (I went twice!)so now I'll be heading to Raleigh to see it this weekend!

Yeah Aussies! Keep her flyin'

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Friday, November 11, 2005 5:00 PM

POOBLESNUGGETS

yay, go us!
i'm thinkin that means i'll have to go see it again. and again. and again.. February is a long way away..
wouldn't it be good if it was the aussie cinemas that brought up the profits enough to greenlight a sequel? *daydreams*

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Friday, November 11, 2005 9:21 PM

This was on Serenity Oz about Box Office
So, i've been checking out boxofficemojo.com to keep an eye on serenity's takings. I then grabbed some population statistics off the web, and guess what I found! Yep, we are the highest-serenity-going country per capita.

Here are the figures:
Country; Takings; Population; Takings per capita
Australia; $2365686; 20126404; 0.1175
France; $530179; 60721947; 0.0087
Portugal; $218685; 10569829; 0.0206
Russia; $1379643; 143160115; 0.0096
Spain; $970891; 40341000; 0.0241
Switzerland; $23648; 7494429; 0.0032
United Kingdom; $4722758; 60462904; 0.0781
United States; $25240055; 296377066; 0.0852

So not only are we better, but we're streets ahead! yay us!

*pats hisownself on the back*

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Friday, November 11, 2005 11:21 PM

EPECKMIO

Hi all,

I'm new to this site, also hailing from australia. Was just at jb hifi website, guess which dvd is at number 1?

http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/dvds

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:10 AM

KHALOR

Hey, I'm new here too - 'cept I'm from New Zealand. Serenity was only released a few days ago here - November 10 - and I'm sorry to say I was one of only 5 people in the cinema.

Loved it, though.

"We want to put you in a safehouse, where you'll be safe."
-- Ryan Templer, Graduate Massacre

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:29 AM

Cool nice of you to see it, shame you were one of five, what's going on? Lack of advertising???

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:52 AM

RACOONBOY

As it turns out, I'm also new, but in other news, SERENITY IS GONE FROM ANYWHERE NEAR ME!

And my dad won't take me to belconnen to see it, even though I tell him how awesome it is and that he would probably like it, but I ain't giving up hope, I'm gonna try to convince him anyway I can, I HAVE TO SEE THAT MOVIE! Everyone I know whos seen it said that it's great and have either gotten into Firefly or want to get into Firefly, that is, if they aren't already (like my ENGLISH TEACHER!).

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Sig.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:55 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by Causal:
Yeah, but in what? 100 theaters? Been gone from my town for 3 weeks now.

Holding in the US at 144 theaters
according to www.boxofficemojo.com/counts

It will be 49 days in US on November 17, 2005.

Plenty of first-run, buy-a-on-line ticket
theaters too:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0379786/cinemashowtimes?location=map

It's weekend gross time again.

I wonder when theater owners make the
decision to keep for another week. Is it
based on the weekend gross or is it based on
how many people come on Wednesday or Thursday.
Anybody know?

Check your area second-run theaters, newspapers, and other on-line ticket sellers like
http://www.fandango.com
http://movies.aol.com/

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:01 AM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by Anonymous1:

Holding in the US at 144 theaters
according to www.boxofficemojo.com/counts

I wonder when theater owners make the
decision to keep for another week. Is it
based on the weekend gross or is it based on
how many people come on Wednesday or Thursday.
Anybody know?

actually 144 theaters in it's 6th week is really not bad...most movies that have been open for 6 weeks have disappeared completely.

I do hope we can eeek out a few for million dollars,
I would really like to at least make back the production costs in the theaters
so that the DVD sales are all profit.

And I've talked to some theater owners here (near where I live in the USA)
and they said that they have a contract for 2 weeks
then it is up to them to hold over or not,
depending upon how well they think the movie is doing in their area.

This means that 144 theaters in the US (and Canada?)
think that Serenity is worth keeping around!
(of course WE knew that!

)

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watch the R. Tam Session vids: http://www.hittarivertam.nu/
and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse,
and have you joined the Browncoats yet?
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?fuseaction=tools.invlink
&u=embers&linkID=36

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:19 AM

NEBUCHADNEZZAR

Im so proud of us Aussies' loyalty to the Firefly universe

Still showin proud over here in Perth :P

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 8:57 AM

RIVERNOT

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:
I've talked to some theater owners here (near where I live in the USA) and they said that they have a contract for 2 weeks then it is up to them to hold over or not, depending upon how well they think the movie is doing in their area.

This means that 144 theaters in the US (and Canada?) think that Serenity is worth keeping around!

My local theater is one, actually bumping the number of showings back up to 4 this weekend after dropping it down to 2 last. I can't go again (hubby doesn't understand).

Yay, Ausies!!! Keep it going!

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:37 AM

I'm going again this week! Go Melbourne!

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:44 AM

CHRISISALL

Down Under gave us Mad Max, now they're bloody well givin' us MORE HOPE!!!

Thanks so much, Aussie Browncoats!!

Chrisisall, G'day

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:39 AM

ANONYMOUS1

Quote:
Originally posted by embers:

actually 144 theaters in it's 6th week is really not bad...most movies that have been open for 6 weeks have disappeared completely.

By my calculations, this is the 7th week in
US. September 30 to October 6th was 1st week.

The 7th week is November 11 to November 17th.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:43 AM

NCBROWNCOAT

Just saw Serenity yesterday in Raleigh NC. It was at a second run house but there were about 45 people at the 4:20 showing. It seemed that most were seeing it for the first time in listening to their reactions and seemed older than college student age (the theatre is near NC State). There is hope yet!

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:28 PM

I hope to get down to Raleigh tomorrow to see it. Hope there are just as many people at that showing!!!

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:12 PM

POOBLESNUGGETS

for being (technically) the most isolated capital city, i reckon we're doing alright here in perth.. or maybe i'm just giddy that my local hoyts is the only one still playing serenity. whee :)

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 5:02 PM

RACOONBOY

I live in Canberra, The Capital, yet the place where the least happens, I mean, what's up with that?

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 7:33 PM

G'day

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 9:46 PM

MAJORCLOD

Thats excellent, I'll go see it again. I went and saw it last weekend, and there was still about 25 people in the cinema on a sunday night at 9:30.

Aussie browncoats rock!

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Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RacoonBoy:
I live in Canberra, The Capital, yet the place where the least happens, I mean, what's up with that?

Obviously you've never been to/don't live in Adelaide.

Boredom CENTRAL.

Why do you think we obsess over DVDs/Games/Movies? ;)

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 9:51 AM

I'm from Melbourne, but I think Adelaide has good food. Canberra is interesting to visit.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:21 PM

BAPTISMO

I just went and saw it here in NZ.

What a great movie, even my wife enjoyed it and she really doesnt get into things like that.

Select to view spoiler:

When Wash died she gave a rather loud cry of dissapointment. I thought that was cool

Please oh God let them make all three movies and continue on with the series....

Even though I am biased, I would have to say this is now enconced as one of my all time favourite movies.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Khalor:
Hey, I'm new here too - 'cept I'm from New Zealand. Serenity was only released a few days ago here - November 10 - and I'm sorry to say I was one of only 5 people in the cinema.

Khalor - you weren't at Berkley Botany in Auckland on Thursday were you? I went to a screening there with only 5-8 people in the audience...

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 1:09 PM

I was also really peeved with the film quality

- it was pretty much worn out and I suspect was a 3-4 week old reel set from Australia. Since NZ had an unnecessary delay in the release by over a month I suspect this was to allow recycling of film from Australia???? Needless to say the imagery was dreadful, lots of scratches, couple of times there were big brown vertical lines through the picture, and 3-4 times there were large 'splotches' (corrosion on the film) that obscured people's faces and stuff...

I'll have to make sure I go to a different cinema to watch it a second time this week... (typical that the newest, nicest, most comfortable cinema in my half of Auckland hows the crappiest film copy!!!

P.S. Since typical life of a film reel is only about 3 weeks as I understand it, I suspect this means a whole lot of people are goign to see crap substandard screenigns of Serenity in NZ.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 3:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Mycenius:
...I suspect was a 3-4 week old reel set from Australia
...Needless to say the imagery was dreadful, lots of scratches, couple of times there were big brown vertical lines through the picture, and 3-4 times there were large 'splotches' (corrosion on the film) that obscured people's faces and stuff...

I know what you mean, but somehow, the ones they're still using in the cinemas aren't THAT bad. Scratches and the like, yes, blotches, no.

And film recycling? Come on UIP, recycling is cool, EXCEPT with film.
Now that's just low!(/malism)

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"Hey, support it best you can! I believe supporting this as far as we can will get Serenity restarted. Right now seems VERY "Out Of Gas", and the Fans are Mal. We need to get her running to get the Big Damn Button pushed."

"I don't care what you believe in! Just BELIEVE!"

- Self Quote from a reply to a post about Serenity

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 4:34 PM

KHALOR

Quote:
Originally posted by Mycenius:
Khalor - you weren't at Berkley Botany in Auckland on Thursday were you? I went to a screening there with only 5-8 people in the audience...

No...it was a Wednesday screening at Village Cinemas on Broadway. Good to see another Aucklander though.

But another screening with only a few people? This is just...wrong.

Film quality was pretty poor as well, though. Blotches....grr...

"We want to put you in a safehouse, where you'll be safe."
-- Ryan Templer, Graduate Massacre

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 4:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Khalor:
But another screening with only a few people? This is just...wrong.

Film quality was pretty poor as well, though. Blotches....grr...

Yes - I went to the 6.20pm screening on Thursday (release day) at Botany - was very disappointed to see so few, BUT the whole complex was very empty (hardly anyone going to any of the movies) - even though the shopping centre was fairly busy...

Considering I went to the 3rd (or 4th?) screening of the first day at that cinema, and that cinema had had no preview screenings prior the film should have been near immaculate!!

And people wonder why I'd sooner get the DVD and watch a movie on my high-end HT set-up and 42" Plasma than go to the cinema!

M.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:07 PM

INIRE

excellent work, you lot. good to see theres civilization out there.

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Monday, November 14, 2005 5:30 PM

Looks like Serenity debuted at No.3 first week in New Zealand FWIW (behind "World's Fastest Indian" & "Flight Plan" - the former has been No.1 here for 4 weeks)...

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 10:30 AM

OCELOTWREAK

Serenity _still_ has not arrived in Bermuda. *grr* Should we give up hope at this point in time?

How do the distributors decide on when and where to "recycled" films into the lower-priority areas? Is it potentially possible to see a film arrive at the local theatre after the DVD has been released?

Cheers,
Ocelot Wreak

"I figure you're here 'cause you need some whacko who's willing to stick his finger in the fan. So who are we helping?" - Keith Szarabajka

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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:26 PM