Extras on the first DVD is about 40 minutes, libkitty, so it's not too bad. Joss commentary. I'm rolling out a website for it in two weeks. And you've got to love a feature on the Oaty Bar.

I'd like to see a second edition with a cast commentary, and one with Lisa, Joss, Jack Green and David Newman together. I likes me some commentaries. Universal also shot a film about the fans (yes, Browncoats) which I presume will go out 2nd time around. There was a bit of debate about putting my complete unfinished docuthing on the region 2 DVDs, but given the script for the voiceovers and presenting says things like "Firefly: a television flop" and "Despite popular myth, fans didn't campaign for a motion picture", I don't think that'll get signed off -- it's not quite in line with the cute marketing angle.

Does anybody know the total take, domestic and international, for Serenity, so far? I'm not much on following that stuff, so I rely on other (nosier, hee) people than myself to do the bird-dogging for me. I didn't really hold out much hope for sequels, but I'm still curious. Kevin, any clue?

It's just under $30M worldwide, I believe.

Ah. I can see why they might feel the need to go DVD so quickly.

As of Thursday, it's estimated at:

Domestic box office to date: $23,126,690 International box office to date: $6,369,352 Worldwide box office total to date: $29,496,042

However the international figures are off by a bit.. A few days behind in most cases. By sunday, total worldwide will be around $32m. However, if the remaining international areas do drop the movie... It'll be off by further.

It needs to hit at least $80m for a sequel. Ideally $100m. There's a pretty huge gap, although eventually with TV licensing, DVD sales, other licensing etc, I think it'll make it back.

ETA: Pretty obviously, though, these aren't numbers for a sequel - unless the DVD does seriously huge business (much bigger than Firefly). Which, market factors considered... Guh.

Kat - if, for example, you'd said that I'd be like 'Uhm, that's really rude'. Because I don't know you. But that's just me.

Ah! See. I totally agree.

And when you spent time trying to school Buffistas in how the internet works with your implication that we should just suck up being linked, even though it's not part of our thing, or defining for us who we should be in the world according to you with a miniscreed on psueds or by telling us we're all part of fandom, I was like "Umm... that's really rude." Because you don't know us. And it wasn't just me that felt that way.

I was defining how *I* think of things. Not how things *should* be defined. People labeled me rude for linking something, and calling Nilly "Nilly". That's fine - I don't care, that's their opinion of how they persceive something (most things in life are subjective).

I don't know how many caught this, also, but there was an advert placed by fans in the Daily Variety:

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Kat, please don't speak for me.

People labeled me rude for linking something, and calling Nilly "Nilly". That's fine - I don't care, that's their opinion of how they persceive something (most things in life are subjective).

It's ironic that I'm doing this, but if you stop coming across as if you're dictating how others should behave/react, you may find yourself being dogpiled less.

eta - quote for context

Oh, I'm not, SailAweigh. I am speaking for myself.

But I am also observing how many people felt compelled to say something about being upset.