Serenity

[sombrefan]

To all intents and purposes, the movie is dead at the US box office. Might do well in the international market but who knows.

Ah well. At least people can't say the fans didn't make the effort.

Comments

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

The Firefly fans are starting to piss me off. It's always someone elses fault that their series and movie did badly. *rolls eyes* Some people need to remember that it's just a movie.

[swersfreakshow.livejournal.com]

I figured it would do about what the XFiles movie did: mild profit, nothing major to crow about.

but I'm seeing it again, right now. leaving in 2 minutes.

[letloverule42.livejournal.com]

what makes you say that? joss said (and it's widely known, regardless of what joss said) that the 2nd weekend will be just as important, if not moreso, than opening weekend. 10.1 mil is nothing to sneeze at, regardless of what devin at chud has to say...i'm far from an expert on things like this, but i can't help but still hold out hope...i know i'm going to see it again (three times, most likely) this weekend..and i know a LOT of other people who are as well. my fingers are crossed...

[grnarmadillo.livejournal.com]

Simon's looking at the daily box office numbers, which don't bode well. Sure, revenues will be lower midweek than on a weekend, but even compared to themselves the midweek numbers are showing a downward trend. The more pressing issue is one of screen retention. Serenity opened on fewer screens than Flight Plan had to begin with, and at the current rate there's going to be strong pressure to move it to smaller auditoriums if it doesn't move up this weekend, presuming no one downgrades it tomorrow. (It's not like a screen downgrade would be undeserved either - I arrived at the very last minute for a prime time Sat night showing at one of Boston's two premiere theaters last weekend and not only had no trouble finding a good seat, but it would have been relatively easy to find decent seats TOGETHER had I gone with anyone.) Even if you argue a best case scenario, i.e. that the film has the staying power to consolidate the current and rapidly diminishing crowds and continue to draw viewers over time, it'll probably be too slow to hold onto enough screens to significantly increase the take.

Right now, I'd guesstimate that we're probably looking at a total take in the low $20 million range, which, to be fair, would put the film's US gross above half its budget. Not a great place to be, but the real money for this film is and always has been in the DVD release.