Subj : Re: Serentiy Garners $10.1M weekend
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Mon Oct 03 2005 13:44:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Trouble wrote:
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
 
>>>>> FUCK IT! that's it! bugger the expense I am going to book a
>>>>> ticket, shove down some painkillers and brave the journey into
>>>>> town to see this big damn movie on my own.

>> Well I can't wait to hear what the UK numbers will add to the pot.
 
>  The show does have quite a following over here, we are used to
>  getting series that you have already cancelled.  I have friends who 
>  want to see it, problem is all the people I know have moved away. 
 
>> The
>> real number we should all be wondering about is how much extra do
>> they need to get Universal to make the next two? Surely it has to
>> make $39 just to break even, ticket sales + DVDs, and eventual runs
>> on Scifi channel will probably make that. But how much more do they
>> need to get Universal to lay out another $39 million for a sequel? 
 
> Hmm, I'm not sure that we will get the sequels no matter what. The 
> falling audiences seem to have got the studios into producing big
> flash movies that they know will make a profit despite a lack of any
> "artistic merit." 

Point of fact Universal needs to put out X many movies per year, this 
feeds the needs of their DVD distribution channels, and NBC/SciFi/USA TV 
networks. If a movie based on a known property can break even then its 
chances of getting its $40M and a greenlight are better than unknown 
properties, and about equal to a remake of a hit from the 60's. The 
studio will only make 1-2 effects movies per year, one for Summer and one 
for Christmas, everything else must be cheap, and known entities get cash 
first.

Joss Whedon can't put Firefly back on the small screen due to the terms 
of the contract with Fox, and therefore he'd have to make any new TV 
series something entirely new, or Dawn/Faith the Vampire Slayer and the 
Potentials a reprise... Tractenberg is busy with a luke warm movie 
career, but Dushku's other TV show didn't do well, Spike is on WB already 
playing General Zod on Smallville, so I think JW will be doing Firefly 
for some time to come.

Now just to nitpick, what about an Internet only subscription series, HBO 
cable only, or download straight to TiVo series? except for HBO I can't 
see Fox saying anything about their contract.

>>> It doesn't help that I'm such a pain, booking in advance is a
>>> lottery, 
 
>> My wife is much the same, we found it hard to plan anything in
>> advance for a while, now that her new meds work better, we've gone
>> places, and even kept dinner reservations. 

> I was told on thursday that as the specialist pain clinic is out of
> the county I live in,(it's 30 miles away,) I have to apply for
> specialist funding and probably won't get it. Despite being in one of
> the largest counties in the country there is nothing like it in the
> county. The specialist at the hospital said I would be an ideal
> candidate, I know it won't stop the pain and get me back to work but
> it hopefully would allow me to have at least a raised standard of
> living. Needless to say I am not a happy little bunny rabbit at the
> moment. 

There was in my wife's case a sweetspot where the increased level of 
mobility produced an increase in mood .vs boredom/depression of not doing 
anything. She's looking for volunteer work to do in our area, she knows 
she can't go back to work-work right now.

I also had to get her to accept the fact that there are days she should 
just pack it in because biology/chemistry are against her, and its not a 
reflection on her as a person if she doesn't get out in the world and do 
something that day.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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