From an article in the Scotsman about hot ticket sales for the Edinburgh International Film Festival:
However, the biggest draw on the opening day for ticket sales was the sci-fi film Serenity, the first feature by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon.
Most of the tickets to the world premiere of the film, about an intrepid band of space mercenaries, including its world premiere, were sold after just a few hours.
Whedon will also talk live at the festival in one of a series of interviews with industry players, and tickets for that event are expected to go almost as quickly.
A festival spokesman said: "There were queues winding out of the doors at Filmhouse when we opened the box office, and there was a real buzz of excitement.
"The world premiere of Joss Whedon's Serenity attracted much of the attention, particularly with online sales.
"The website was hit very hard by an enormous number of people trying to buy tickets as soon as it opened with a staggering total of 40,000 page views in the first hour.
"Unfortunately, this did cause some problems and some people will have had difficulty trying to book early on, but we have managed to get it up and running again fairly quickly."
Did anyone here see Serenity stuff at ComicCon? I hear it went well, but not from anyone who knew enough Jossy stuff to give me details.
Thanks for that link, beathen...
The very opening notes sound
so much like the music they play over the casket drop-off in The Message
. Neat. Two months. I can do it.
sumi's quotes from that article make me happy.
Note that the file names (not just the link names) of the last 2 samples beathen linked may be slightly spoilerish.
Oh, heh. I didn't even realize they were for Serenity. I assumed they were for different movies. Which is good, because I don't remember the names. That worked nicely. Oh. Except now I want to hear them. Damn.
Finally got my comic book! It's great: the story is good, and the art is excellent. Of course I got all three covers... I only read the Inara one; the other two remain bagged and boarded, because I'm like that.
By the way, regarding the name Inara, I believe it's the name of an ancient Far Eastern fertility goddess. I looked it up way back when, and now I can't remember where I found the info.
According to nameandfame.org, Inara is a Hittite name: [link]
Other sites indicate that she's an Indian or Hindu goddess of rice or rain/lightning. Each would tie in pretty well with the fertility thing.
"HEY... MANSQUITO!!!"
Is that to the tune of Macarena?
