Serenity very nearly at #1 in UK...

The production budget is $45m. It's done $18m so far in the US, and should pull about $26m final domestic.

Plus worldwide.. plus DVD, it will almost certainly make the production budget back.

If you disagree with these figures, great, but please say why...
 
grow up! your the one trying to start arguments by saying 'face it,its a flop' and grow up, im more mature than your acting!




i feel privaliged! :D :D
 
There's no way this film will make back the $45million it cost to produce, its an excellent film I agree, but a word of mouth film nonetheless... Devoted Sci-Fi fans will go to see the film (sometimes even more than once like me) but everything else has to be a brand name (Star Wars for example) to get 'joe bloggs' to go to the cinema to watch it, DVD rentals and sales (including multiple special editions probably), might help it reach a target near to the production costs, and Universal may take a chance on a 2nd film, but I'd be suprised if they did.. An excellent film no doubt, but maybe only a one-off (I'm prepared to be proved wrong on this)

Drag yer mates out to see the film with you, I agree they wont be disappointed, but it may take some selling (People are becoming apatehtic to films which arent the usual blockbusters)
 
From what I understand, the production budget was $39. The rest of your dollar bills have gone on promotion, advertising etc. Of which, oddly, I have seem very little. Which may have been the problem to an extent.

Anyway, my four penneth is that it was a good movie... no, scratch that... a great movie. Best new sci-fi I've seen in the last ten years or so (sorry Mr. Lucas). It should have been a hit everywhere (not just UK) IMO. It wasn't. But it also wasn't a bomb by any stretch.

DVD sales do make a massive difference to sequel possibilities, if that's what's being discussed here. Even if they are direct the DVD sequels (which wouldn't be such a bad thing for Serenity - it's where Firefly was a hit, not on TV). Look at The Prophecy (fourth and fifth movies announced), The Crow (fourth movie, second direct to DVD out soon in the UK). Also look at The Punisher, a movie which pretty much followed the same cinematic path as Serenity (but without the good reviews), but has had massive DVD sales, and as such a (cinematic) sequel is being made.

It may not be the hit that fans of the show had hoped for, but I don't think the franchise may not be as dead as fan-site writers like Devin Faraci think. DepenRAB if Universal had a realistic expectation as to creating a ong term franchise, or if they just crossed their fingers and hoped for a lucky, one-off big hit. We shall see.
 
No, it's actually #9. Into the Blue is #10 - but when you consider that they were #2 and #5 respectively last week (i.e. Serenity had a much bigger dropoff)...

I think it's basically getting the core fans in and not much more, and I can't see it doing any better over here (where the show has had even less exposure).
 
The following for Serenity is verging on the ridiculous, especially on the interweb the past few weeks.

It's a movie, simply watch and enjoy it. If the marketing men can't convince people to buy a ticket and keep it at #1 why do the fans think they can? Let things run their natural course and be happy you got the film in the first place. It has only been out for a week or so and already people are crying over the sequel-that-might-not-be.

All the hype has only resulted in people arguing about the box office takings. Get over it.
 
there are some other films that have been released in the last couple of weeks that must be classed as failures also if you look at their box office returns to date without even looking at the budget figures including Two for the Money $8.7m, The Gospel $7.52M, Waiting $6.02M, History of Violence $16.6m , Into the Blue $13.9m,Cry Wolf $9.5M even Land of the Dead only took $20m at the US box office & Serenity has taken $18.7 so far and openend on fewer screens
 
Thought not. I just don't think it's a great argument to call something sh*te and overrated when you haven't even seen it. I have seen both Serenity and W&G and think they were both excellent - I was not a fan of either Firefly or previous W&G projects. I suggest you give it a chance before you get all defensive about Serenity (which you are clearly a fan off) and just call W&G 'sh*ite', that's all I'm saying.
 
I went with two of my not keen frienRAB tonight, and we all loved it! It was like a mix of Buffy, Matrix, Star Wars and something totaly new. Awesome. :D

I have to agree that most of the people in there were either on their own or in groups of youngish boys. It didnt seem to attract the "family" market, still their loss. It was so good!
 
It's certainly the best (if one can use such a subjective term here) sci-fi movie for quite a few years - I'd imagine that quite a bonus for fans of sci-fi, and is precisely what all the fuss is about.
 
But Sci-Fi films cost a lot of money to make. I'd be surprised if A History of Violence cost half of Serenity's production budget despite having bigger name actors.

I've watched Serenity and liked it so it's not a value judgement, it's just that Serenity will only scrape a profit and that's just a fact.

*** Woohoo, my 1000th post ***
 
Why are people saying it's a flop?

In the US it reached No. 2 - incredible for a genre film and the highest new opening of the weekend. It's garnered critical acclaim - something most major blockbusters fail to even achieve.

In the UK unofficial figures have it opening at No. 1, so if that's not a success, I don't what is.
 
i agree, my frienRAB hate sci-fi and space stuff they much prefer comedies etc but i pushed them to come see this with me and when we walked out at the end of the film al of them said they loved it and they didnt realise sci-fi was sooo good! :D
 
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