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What we must remember

POSTED BY: KYLEREESE
UPDATED: Saturday, January 14, 2006 08:32
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Friday, January 13, 2006 9:37 PM

As I have been very concerned with the continuation of the series in some media grapic format (please make a regular comic book series! the thing sold out everywhere I went!!!), I have been tracking the numbers, here is what I have acertained. I will note where estimates exist.

Production: 39 Mil.
Marketing/promotion: 10-15 mil

so lets just say, to be safe, the movie cost 55 mil in total for all promotion, distribution and creation.

Worldwide gross: 39 mil,

DVD VHS RENTALS: 8 mil

DVD VHS SALES: 12 mil (estimated from whedonesque)

TV Rights liscening: Confirmed 3 million to play in 2008 on network cable.

Lets say this was it, the total is: 62 million GROSS.
Universal gets 60% of box office and, from what I hear, 70% of DVD/Rentals, so cut the 20 mil to 14 mil and the 39 mil to 22 mil. The liscening is not cut

NET thus far: ROUGHLY 41 mil. So, we are on our way, but remember, we also have to consider the following:

Merchandising: Books, comics, figures, posters, soundtracks, companions, RPGs, etc.

Worldwide DVD: lets assume that worldwide the DVD does in relation to what the box office did to us, so you can look on adding at least another 8 mil there.

I would safely bet that at the end of this month, Serenity will be just a shade in the green. With this in mind as well as fan exposure, universal could make a comparable budget feature within 2 years.

Think about it, I have shown serenity/firefly to a chain of people that, I have made a tree, 34 people. 3 of them were after serenity came out on DVD, and 12 of them are when serenity came out in the theater.

if everyone is doing this, we could see a second box office showing, domestically, at around double.

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 1:44 AM

ASIANOELLE

Thank you so much for putting all the numbers together for us! (Even if some are estimated.) I've been looking for some idea of Serenity's overall performance and this answered all my questions.

~Asia.

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 2:25 AM

DAX82

Yeah,
I posted something similar a few days ago. There wasnt that many people aware of Serenity due to its low advertising. But I know thats been fixed now. If they made a sequal I guarantee they would at least DOUBLE from the first movie. Theres alot more fans now. Most people I asked when it was out in the theatres never heard of Serenity. That has definately changed.

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Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:15 AM