Firefly at #27 on US DVD sales chart.
It's the first time estimated sales figures have been available for the DVD.
US DVD Sales Chart for Week Ending Sep 9, 2007
Rank Prev. Rank Title Units this Week % Change Total Units Sales this Week Total Sales Weeks in Release
27 Firefly - The Complete Series 45,794 -.-% - $1,288,185 - 196
No prior sales data for Firefly available on The Numbers chart.
WYATT on fff.net noticed this
September 16 2007
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Madhatter | September 16, 03:13 CET
If that's in any way accurate, 20th Century Fox must be bloody rolling in it.
gossi | September 16, 05:44 CET
Djungelurban | September 16, 07:05 CET
I really do feel sorry for Joss and friends still.
[ edited by gossi on 2007-09-16 13:12 ]
gossi | September 16, 07:12 CET
But still, it's impressive numbers and does make one wonder how much the boxset has made to date.
Simon | September 16, 07:12 CET
As I understand those are the three big obstacles that has to be overcome. And to me they don't seem insurmountable.
Djungelurban | September 16, 07:32 CET
Multiple millions of dollars.
And a network to air it.
crossoverman | September 16, 07:53 CET
Quit | September 16, 08:07 CET
And it's pretty much a known fact that Sci-Fi loves Firefly. And they will also lose Battlestar Galactica after this season and that's a void in need of filling.
I just read on wiki that Joss has stated that he'd never work with Fox again. That could be another obstacle but I've always thought it was the network he wouldn't work with again and that he in fact enjoyed working with Fox Productions.
Djungelurban | September 16, 08:08 CET
lordsketch | September 16, 08:45 CET
TDBrown | September 16, 09:53 CET
Whether it be a mini-series or another movie...how did J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5: The Lost Tales sell anyway ? Would it be fitting to use that as a barometer for how welcoming the direct-to-DVD environment might be to Firefly?
It just seems like...they would sell...so much...
Kris | September 16, 12:44 CET
"it's pretty much a known fact that Sci-Fi loves Firefly. And they will also lose Battlestar Galactica after this season and that's a void in need of filling."
Great point. I dunno if cancelled TV shows would be Sci-Fi's thing...though didn't they rescue Stargate back when Showtime was through with it ? And on a tangent, how weird and cool was it that Showtime, an adult pay-cable channel that now airs highbrow fare like Dexter and Brotherhood, used to experiment with sci-fi, re: Odyssey 5, Jeremiah, Stargate, and others I might be forgetting.
I'm not sure why I'm letting myself get hopeful today. I was pretty much resigned to the probability that the franchise kinda ended with Serenity with maybe the odd comic book mini-series that might turn out well.
Kris | September 16, 12:50 CET
I don't think that it'll happen, but it's nice to imagine...
kishi | September 16, 13:10 CET
Yes. But Sliders in the last two seasons was pretty awful. And I really liked the show.
Simon | September 16, 13:17 CET
I think.
jlp | September 16, 13:39 CET
All the other charts only show top 20 or top 10. So if your DVD doesn't get in the top 20, it doesn't show up. The Numbers chart shows the top 30 and they only started records recently
For example the hope Joss Whedon interview at Comic Con 2007 for more Firefly/Serenity: Serenity Collector's Edition DVD sold 32,396 units for $580,429. On the 8/26/2007 chart. It hasn't been back on the chart yet. Which means it sold less than 24,534 for week ending 9/2/2007, less than 32,714 week ending 9/9/2007.
Also we don't know what retailers are in the websites study and which aren't. So figures could actually be higher.
Universal knows how many Serenity and Serenity CE DVDs they have sold to distributors.
And 20th Century Fox production company knows how many Firefly they have sold to distributors.
Anonymous1 | September 16, 13:43 CET
"Whether it be a mini-series or another movie...how did J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5: The Lost Tales sell anyway ? Would it be fitting to use that as a barometer for how welcoming the direct-to-DVD environment might be to Firefly?"
I just watched B5: The Lost Tales last week, and while it was very good, it was obviously done very cheaply. In fact, it kind of reminded me of a play, with each of the three stories featuring only a couple of characters in one or two locales, with only one or two major FX sequences; most of it was two or three characters in a room talking (again, reminding me strongly of a stage play), very different from Serenity or even an average Firefly episode. Picture Waiting for Godot with B5 characters.
Which isn't to say that Joss couldn't follow that example, but it would be a very different animal from either the series or the BDM. It probably wouldn't even feature all the crew, as The Lost Tales only featured three leads from the series (and technically, one was from Crusade).
Baalek | September 16, 22:06 CET
But then, Joss' worlds didn't have a flash forward 20 years, so part of my issue with B5: TLT has to do with JMS' creative choice to give the viewers a final resolution--Joss' stories all have a point from which they can be picked up, as seen in the comics.
jclemens | September 17, 01:07 CET
And didn't Tim just get a guaranteed series pilot or some such from ABC? Just asking...
Ceslas | September 17, 23:29 CET
Tim has an "overall" deal with 20th Century Fox Production Studio. His pilot/series "Miracle Man" got picked up by ABC. Fox TV lost the bidding war.
Joss has like 12? clipboards of things he is working on.
Anonymous1 | September 18, 11:32 CET