Holy Cats!

[willow_red]

SQUEE!

Joss Whedon is doing a special sneak preview of Serenity (the Firefly movie) in its unfinished state in only ten cities across the nation...and Denver is one of them!

Grab your tickets now; they will not last!

10:00pm Thursday, May 5
AMC Highlands Ranch
Clicky, clicky!
(Yes, I know it doesn't have the movie name listed here, but this was a direct link from the Browncoats web site according to lilacwire.)

If you don't have an AMC MovieWatcher card and would like to save the $1 service charge, e-mail me and I will give you my card number, as I'd rather not post it online. Fastest way to reach me is my first name at my last name dot net (but only if you know how to spell my last name, ha ha!)

Stop reading LJ and go buy those tickets, I command you!

Edit: Much love to lilacwire for passing along the info!

Edit: My e-mail seems to be slightly b0rked at the moment. Instead, call me or send to my first initial last name at ball dot com, and yes, it will look vaguely like spitball. When my other account is up and running again, I'll delete this edit.

Yet Another Edit: That's it, the tickets are sold out (10:30am). Sorry if you didn't get one! Dang, those went fast.

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I knew about that a week ago (erk, sorry, should have told you!), and have been going "Grrrr!!! Wasn't it enough that the movie opens two months later for us?!?" Am so in the wrong country this year, geekwise!

[willow-red.livejournal.com]

!?!?!?!

Hmm, maybe the UK isn't as much of a geek land as the US or Japan. Alas, they didn't even put Serenity in one of the larger theaters at the AMC. Maybe they'll change their minds since it sold out so fast.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

It's not a lack of geekland (you speak of the land that created Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adams and JKR, wench! *Gryn*), just that All Movies Open Here Much Later For Reason Inexplicable. The counterpart to this is, for some reason we get DVDs a *hell* of a lot faster, almost as soon as the movie leaves the theaters.

[willow-red.livejournal.com]

Good point. The UK has a good number of literary geeks to say the least. (Of course, this opinion is thoroughly influenced by the alternate UK where *everyone's* a literature geek in the Thursday Next books.)

The marketroids have some strange ideas. I know of series that came out in the UK on DVD four years before they came out in the US.

Not very bright studio execs.

[mackys.livejournal.com]

That's it, the tickets are sold out (10:30am).

Well, I think the studio execs who decided to delay Firefly until September have been proven sufficiently wrong now.

Re: Not very bright studio execs.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

How so? They didn't want it to be overshadowed by Hitchhiker and Star Wars III, so they moved it to a time when it'll get all the attention. Suits me fine.

Re: Not very bright studio execs.

[mackys.livejournal.com]

They didn't want it to be overshadowed by Hitchhiker and Star Wars III,

If the tickets sold out by 10:30, do you think there's much danger of that?

If anything, they ought to release it early and steal the thunder of Ep3 and HHGTTG.

Re: Not very bright studio execs.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Yep, I still think it'd be overshadowed, if only because everyone's heard of Star Wars (which despite the suckiness of the new movies has still been an influence for thirty years) and most have heard of Hitchhiker, but not half so many have heard of Firefly (or may even realize Serenity is Firefly; not sure that was mentioned outright in the trailer). If it were released now, it'd get a ton of support from fans, but wouldn't be as likely to attract new fans as it will be when it's released next September (November for me, damn it). Then it can get everybody. Woot.

Now, the next Firefly movie, that one should be able to compete with anything else and hold its own. Bwhahahaahahaa.

Re: Not very bright studio execs.

[willow-red.livejournal.com]

Mmm, series of Firefly movies...

It's true, though. Serenity needs to have a good amount of advertising momentum behind it (which this preview may well be part of). There are plenty of people who watched Firefly who don't know that a movie is coming. It doesn't take many hardcore fans to sell out ten theaters nationwide. Wide-release movies, however, have to build a broad appeal to sell enough tickets that the execs will consider it successful.

The hardcore fans will go anytime, anywhere. It's the casual fans and the people who say, "hmm, that could be interesting," that you need to bring into the theaters, and they're busy with Hitchhiker's and Star Wars right now.

Re: Not very bright studio execs.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

The plan is for three of 'em, I hear. Bwhaahahahaa.

Advertising momentum certainly won't hurt.

What's your email address? I still have a colorado.edu one for you, and I'm not sure that can still be accurate.

Re: Not very bright studio execs.

[willow-red.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, that one does still forward to me. Other options include my first name at my last name dot net or last name at gmail dot com.