Here Be Hard Data on Serenity CE Sales by Suasor

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Here Be Hard Data on Serenity CE Sales

POSTED BY: SUASOR
UPDATED: Saturday, September 22, 2007 20:57
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Saturday, September 8, 2007 9:02 AM

Good Question.

I want to know more about this 'September' deadline thingy. I'm thinking this talk about the September as the deadline for some contract issue pushed sales a little higher.

I know just about every Best Buy in my area sold out. I had a wonderful Seattle Browncoat pick up one for me in North Seattle.

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Saturday, September 8, 2007 9:47 AM

WYATT

Looks like it dropped out of the top 30.

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Saturday, September 8, 2007 11:52 AM

SUASOR

Alas, so it did, and one cause would be inadequate inventory. I wonder what Universal is thinking?

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Sunday, September 9, 2007 6:57 AM

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?

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Originally posted by Wyatt:
Looks like it dropped out of the top 30.

Hard to keep selling when there is no merchandise.
I know locally all my stores are out. I, of course, helped cause this by buying multiple copies.

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Sunday, September 9, 2007 10:50 AM

SPACEGIRL32

Yep....

Best buy is still out where I live.

No CE.....no sales to make.

Hmmm....

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:09 AM

WYATT

The CE didn't make the top 30 this week but Firefly did.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:57 AM

SUASOR

That's odd, they have it down as a new release. It's been out for years.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 2:41 PM

WYATT

It's amazing. Another 1.14 mil in sales last week alone.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:26 PM

SUASOR

Well, assumming those numbers are accurate....

The Firefly DVD has been on sale for over 200 weeks. In the week ending Sept 9 (shown on this chart) Amazon ran a special on Firefly, that got it up to number 1 on that day. Otherwise, it was in the top 100. For those 200 weeks, it's been at least in the top 100, and often in the top 20 or top 10. Fox makes a profit of about $7 per Firefly DVD. If last week Firefly sales are the average for the last 200 weeks, that means over 8 million sold, making $56 million for Fox. I wonder if Joss gets any of that, as producer? If he doesn't, that would be another reason for him to hate Fox...

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Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:22 PM

FREEBROWNCOAT

The thought of F*x making money from us. I don't think I'll sleep well tonight.

"Nuttin' times nuttin', carry the nuttin'."

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Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:56 AM

WHOISRIVER

Quote:
...making $56 million for Fox. I wonder if Joss gets any of that, as producer?

I don't believe he does. The royalty issue came up in an interview last year.

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Monday, September 17, 2007 5:16 AM

SUASOR

Dunno if this has been posted before, but here be some really nice Firefly/Serenity reviews.

http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2005/09/firefly_review.html

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Saturday, September 22, 2007 8:57 PM

SUASOR

Latest week of DVD sales at
http://www.the-numbers.com/dvd/charts/weekly/thisweek.php
does not show Serenity CE, or, as it did last week, Firefly. What it does show is that subsequent weeks tend to have a 50% or higher drop in sales. You need at least 30,000 units sold in a week to be on this chart,so that would indicate that Serenity CE sales so far are about 60,000. Given that they were out of stock very quickly, makes you wonder how many were initially pressed.

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