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| Why has River got such big hair :lol: |
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| Posted: 03 Nov 2005 11:19 am Post subject: DVD art Reply with quote Guess what else I'm not the boss of. |
| QUOTE (laughitupfuzzball @ Nov 5 2005, 01:14 PM) |
| So who is impatient and going to buy the Region 1 first, I haven't decided yet, depends on how long the Region 2 will take :ponder: |
| QUOTE (Daniel Brown @ Nov 5 2005, 05:30 PM) | ||
Also depends whether Region 2 gets more extras.... |
| QUOTE (Calculon @ Nov 7 2005, 10:32 PM) |
| but mine has a place to buy it here, and a price... :snooty: |
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That's no excuse for not looking down three topics in the list :p |
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| Complete Serenity DVD Specs From Moviesonline.ca - By Michael - 2005-11-29 Director Joss Whedon Movie Serenity Universal just dropped us the complete specs for the Serenity DVD which is going to be a MUST buy on my list of things. Serenity will be on DVD December 20th. On a Side note be sure and look out for our exclusive interview with Joss whedon tomorrow. The DVD extras according to Universal Consist of: * Deleted Scenes * Outtakes * Special Introduction by Joss Whedon - The Oscar and Emmy-nominated writer/director of Serenity. * Re-lighting the Firefly * What’s in a Firefly? * Feature Commentary with Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel" and "Firefly." * Running Time: 1 Hour 59 Minutes * Layers: Dual * Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Anamorphic Widescreen); 1.33:1 (Full Frame) v* Rating: PG-13 * Technical Info: English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround; English SDH; Spanish and French Subtitles Oscar and Emmy-nominated Joss Whedon - creator of the worldwide television phenomena’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel - makes his feature film directorial debut with the futuristic action-adventure SERENITY, based on his cult television series Firefly. Set five-hundred years in the future, the film centres around Captain Malcolm ‘Mal’ Reynolds, a hardened veteran who fought on the losing side of a galactic civil war. Mal now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transporting passengers and cargo on the Firefly-class ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family - squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal. When Mal agrees to transport a young doctor, Simon Tam, and his unstable, telepathic sister, River; he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from The Alliance - the coalition dominating the galaxy - who will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl and the secrets she harbours. The crew who once skimmed the outskirts of the galaxy unnoticed suddenly find themselves caught between this unstoppable military force and the Reavers, a deadly legion of cannibals who haunt the edges of space. With peril coming at them from every angle, Mal and his crew are about to discover that the greatest danger of all may be hidden aboard Serenity itself. |
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| Title Run Time Cut Director(s) Leading Cast Member(s) 15 SERENITY - A FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY 19m 52s Not known Not known PG SERENITY - DELETED AND EXTENDED SCENES 13m 26s Not known Not known 12 SERENITY - DELETED AND EXTENDED SCENES 13m 25s Not known Not known PG SERENITY - WE'LL HAVE A FRUITY OATY GOOD TIME 1m 35s Not known Not known PG SERENITY - FUTURE HISTORY 4m 27s Not known Not known U SERENITY - JOSS WHEDON INTRODUCTION 3m 52s Not known Joss Whedon 12 SERENITY - WHAT'S IN A FIREFLY 6m 30s Not known N/'k 15 SERENITY - OUTTAKES 6m 2s Joss Whedon Not known 12 SERENITY - RE-LIGHTING THE FIREFLY 9m 38s |
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| Serenity UK DVD due Feb 27th certificate 15. No confirmation on features yet. |
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| I've not seen or heard anything about a cast commentary on any region DVD so far, although I believe Adam Baldwin has said that one had been recorded. :( (Did this also happen on the Firefly DVDs? I'm pretty sure that during one commentary, a reference was made to another episode commentary - but on the DVD it wasn't there?) |
| QUOTE (Daniel Brown @ Dec 1 2005, 09:20 PM) | ||
Yeah I'm sure Adam Baldwin mentioned one...... ......maybe they are saving it for the Ultimate, Gold, Special, Collectors edition..... :( :ponder: |
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| QUOTE (Daniel Brown @ Dec 1 2005, 09:20 PM) QUOTE (Stewie Griffin @ Dec 1 2005, 08:14 PM) I've not seen or heard anything about a cast commentary on any region DVD so far, although I believe Adam Baldwin has said that one had been recorded. (Did this also happen on the Firefly DVDs? I'm pretty sure that during one commentary, a reference was made to another episode commentary - but on the DVD it wasn't there?) Yeah I'm sure Adam Baldwin mentioned one...... ......maybe they are saving it for the Ultimate, Gold, Special, Collectors edition..... It wouldn't surprise me. I know that there are extras on the Australian DVD which will be exclusive to them for now (a Q&A with Joss at a preview screening) so no doubt one day everything will be pulled together into a definitive DVD for all. Heres hoping....! |
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| DVDWorldUSA shipping Serenity now. It's nice to know studio release dates are important. A great many people report orders being dispatched within 24 hours of ordering the region 1 DVD. It is, however, much more expensive than elsewhere. Edit: Apparently they have mistaken December 20 with December 2 for release date. |
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| Set a course for home!: Nathan Fillion Question: Is there any special reason Serenity is available on DVD so quickly? Not that I'm complaining, but it seems as though it was just in theaters. — Sara FlickChick: Serenity did come to DVD especially quickly for a major studio release: Roughly seven weeks separate the Sept. 30, 2005, theatrical opening and the Dec. 20 DVD release date. But to put that turnaround in context, the window between theatrical and DVD/video has been shrinking steadily for several years. While I'm not going to go into all the ins and outs of how various parties make money from movies, certain factors have a direct bearing on why studio producers and distributors are putting movies out on DVD (and, to a lesser degree, video) faster than ever before. When movies play in a theater, the theater owner and the distributor (which is often also the same company that produced the movie, in whole or in part, or paid a significant sum of money to acquire it) split the ticket-sale revenue. The distributor bears all of the not-inconsiderable cost of prints and advertising; theater owners keep all the money from concessions (candy, soda, popcorn, nachos, hot dogs etc), which bring in far more than admissions. The percentage of the box-office proceeds that goes to the distributor is highest in the movie's opening weeks and subsequently drops steadily. I'm sure you can see where this is going: The longer the movie plays, the greater the proportion of revenue that goes to the theater owner and the smaller the proportion that goes to the distributor. Once upon a time, before secondary markets like broadcast/cable TV and, later on, video and DVD emerged, there was no reason to pull a movie out of theaters: The money a movie made during its original theatrical run was, with few exceptions, all the money it was going to make. But now there's plenty of afterlife in movies, and the best way to get it is to bypass the middleman. You may remember that movies used to be priced for rental when they first came: They'd cost $100 or more dollars, so almost all the sales were to video stores, who recouped the price in rentals. Later, if a movie proved an especially popular rental, it would be reissued at what was called a "sell-through" price, usually in the $15-to-$20 area. By the time DVDs came onto the scene, home-entertainment distributors (which, in the case of major studio films, are divisions of the same company as the theatrical distributor) had learned that the sell-through market was huge, and that selling three million DVD and VHS copies of a movie at $19.98/$9.98 a pop to consumers on the first day it was available was infinitely more lucrative than selling to tens of thousands video stores at five times the price. And the smaller the time gap between the theatrical release and the DVD/video release, the bigger the payoff from the millions spent on theatrical advertising and promotion. Advertising is paid for directly, while promotion, which includes magazine and newspaper articles, TV appearances by the stars, coverage on shows like Access Hollywood and the like, isn't. Still, the publicists and marketing people who secure nonadvertising placements have to be paid, and events like the recent Times Square premiere of Peter Jackson's King Kong remake come with a significant price tag, from airfare and accommodations for stars and filmmakers to the cost of renting a theater, renting arc lights, paying private security personnel, and building giant Kong and parking him in the middle of Broadway. Serenity, which cost $39 million, opened modestly on September 30, taking in a little more than $10 million on almost 2,200 screens in three days. That was good enough to make it the second-highest-grossing film that weekend, but it fell off almost 50 percent the following weekend and dropped to No. 8 on the chart; by its third week it was out of the Top 10 and had lost 500 theaters and by its fourth it was careening down the chart and playing in fewer than 900 theaters. It wound up making about $25.3 million. My read is that despite strong reviews (I came to it cold and thought it was great), it never broke out beyond the core audience of sci-fi fans loyal to director Joss Whedon 's short-lived TV series Firefly. It made total sense to get it out on DVD for the holiday season. |
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| Bonus material for UK 'Serenity' fans Friday, December 9 2005, 12:35 GMT -- by Daniel Saney Joss Whedon's 'sci-fi western' Serenity will be released on DVD on February 27 in the UK, with more bonus features than its Region 1 counterpart. Empire Online reveals today that UK fans will be treated to a 20-minute documentary of which American buyers are to be deprived. Entitled A Filmmaker's Journey, the piece will follow Whedon's progress in putting his story to film. Also included on both editions will be the director's commentary and introduction to the movie, nine deleted scenes and outtakes. In addition, featurettes will chronicle the 500 years between the present and the time of the events of Serenity, take a look at how the project was resurrected for the silver screen and a behind-the-scenes insight into the visual effects. |
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| One of the best sci-fi films of the year, Serenity, is coming to DVD on February 27 – and the UK is to get some bonus material not included on the US release because we're Joss' favourites. As well as his introduction (which screening audiences will already have seen) and his commentary, there are also nine deleted scenes (finally, Inara gets some screen time) and outtakes. Featurettes cover the history of the 500 years between now and Serenity, the visual effects and the journey of the crew from cancelled TV show to feature film. and A Filmmaker's Journey, following Joss from script to screen, in a 20-minute documentary that won't appear on the US disc. |
| QUOTE (Stewie Griffin @ Dec 10 2005, 01:50 PM) |
| Just received an e-mail from Play USA today; my region one DVD has been posted! :yahoo: |