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According to the money poll

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Monday, July 17, 2006 6:17 AM

We could raise more then a million dollars for firefly right now according to the poll.

17,338
$10.00 13.17% $22,834.15
$20.00 10.26% $35,577.58
$30.00 6.18% $32,144.65
$40.00 10.87% $75,385.62
$50.00 20.04% $173,726.76
$100.00 39.48% $684,504.24
$1,024,173.00

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Monday, July 17, 2006 8:20 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Very interesting numbers there. I wonder what people would be willing to pay in a recurring fashion? I mean, if Firefly was brought back as a show you download online for $10 per episode, would people be willing to pay that for each episode, over the course of years?

~CK

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Monday, July 17, 2006 1:54 PM

MIRCEA

Possibly CK. Assuming it remained the same high quality it was for season 1 I'd be happy to pay $10 an episode

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 6:59 AM

ZOID

Mircea wrote:

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Possibly CK. Assuming it remained the same high quality it was for season 1 I'd be happy to pay $10 an episode

Thinking outside your 'box' a little:
I'd pay $1 USD per 10 minutes, as long as it had no commercial breaks and was totally uncensored.

By 'uncensored' I do not mean nudity/adult language/graphic violence would be required or expected; but rather that Joss and his creative team would be free to tell the story without artificial constraints, as they see fit to tell it.

Therefore, an hour-long episode would be 60 minutes (instead of the standard 42 minutes) and would cost the consumer $6. A 100-minute episode would cost $10, etc.

$10 per 42-minute episode would equal $240 per season, way out of line with the current season-DVD model. But $6 per 60-minute, commercial-free, uncensored episode would equal $144 ($6 x 24) per season -- still well above the going rate for 'similar' entertainment products -- while maintaining (outstanding) value for the consumers' entertainment dollars. This 'fantasy format' would also allow Joss to take as much or as little time as he needs to tell a particular story, and the $1-per-10-minutes scale would still apply. I mean, if we are dreaming of exploring new territories in entertainment, why stop at traditional distribution methods? And who wouldn't pay $24 for a 240-minute 'episode'?

Maybe one week Joss would decide to tell two 30-minute stories, which were unrelated to one another, rather than a single 60-minute story. Or maybe one week he would tell a 53-minute story ($5.30) and the next week a 68-minute story ($6.80). See what I mean? He would be freed from having to artificially truncate or elongate the story he wishes to tell, simply because of network requirements. It'd be just like movies, without the '90-minute minimum' Hollywood studios' requirement.

Speculatively,

zoid

P.S.
I would think Joss would find these notions both attractive and liberating as a storyteller. And let's face it, the old television and theatrical models are showing signs of impending collapse...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:03 AM

WHOOPS

To be honest i wouldnt do that (pay for the episodes i mean) however i would buy the series as soon as it came out on DVD but thats just me.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:29 AM

NANITE1018

I like your general idea, Zoid. I think that that would actually probably be a pretty good idea. Although i would definetely pay $!0 per standard episode. I was thinking about this the other night. Why isn't there a fundraiser or something? Like a committee or trusteeship or something with a bank account that is created by Firefly fans. And Browncoats would donate money, trusting it would be used solely for the purpose of getting more Firefly. Maybe we could have a goal, like 10 million dollars, and at that point we could present it to Universal or whatever to defray the costs of making another movie. Or maybe buy a half million copies of Serenity (then we'd be up to where Firefly was at when Serenity was released).

I don't know, just an idea. But i'd definetely pay at least 10 dollars an episode. Maybe more.

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:52 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Hmm, interesting idea.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the biggest reason we don't have a standing account to which Browncoats can donate is that there isn't a consensus on what that money should be used for. Do we go to Fox and try to get them to put the show back on the air? Do we go to SciFi and try to get them to pick it up? Do we go to Universal in hopes of a Big Damn Sequel? Do we give the money directly to Joss, to do with what he wants?

Or, given the amount of money we'd likely be able to gather (probably under 10 million US dollars at the very most), should we be looking at something other that motion pictures?

~CK

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