good news!!1

[hope]

The first day's box office for SERENITY was $280,763.

This placed it 5th on the national box office chart for the day, behind all of the school holiday features (in order: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY $378,428, WALLACE AND GROMIT $373,464, SHARK BOY AND LAVA GIRL $303,328 and SKY HIGH $293,961), but ahead of all other product including new openers CINDERELLA MAN ($275,831) and TRANSPORTER 2 ($185,557).

Important to note is that out of all films in the top 20, SERENITY had the highest per screen average (which, for the uninitiated, means that when you take the box office, and divide it by the number of locations at which it is screening, the film came out at number 1). This is a very good omen for exhibition, because in a lot of locations, SERENITY was the largest film in the cinema complex...and that bodes well for maintaining the number of screens for the film and the size of the cinemas.

Australian figures, taken from here.


HAPPY SERENITY DAY, USA!!

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[newredshoes]

GAH. You guys get Wallace & Gromit before us? *envies!*

And squee with the Serenity news. I'm taking a huge bunch of people to see it tonight.

[hope]

I'm taking a huge bunch of people to see it tonight.

GLEE! you will NOT be disappointed. you have no idea how much i'm anticipating the flist exploding tonight/tomorrow with everyone in the USA seeing it :D


and i guess i should see were-rabbit while it's here, huh?

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

you have no idea how much i'm anticipating the flist exploding tonight/tomorrow with everyone in the USA seeing it

me. too. that was something i loved about the quoting meme; i had no idea there were so many fans on my flist. -awesome-.

[hope]

tell me about it! half the glee was reading the awesome quotes that i love; the other half was the surprise at how many firefly fans there actually ARE on the flist!


eeeewhereiseveryonehavetheyseenityet? *impatient*

[newredshoes]

Dude! I've seen it already -- can't wait for more. :-D And yeah, reaction shots? Oooooh my goodness gosh.

[verylisa.livejournal.com]

Eris spoiled me for the ending of Were-Rabbit last week! D'oh! If I bring her over tomorrow, I will do some more coaching beforehand on the nature and avoidance of spoilers.

[hope]

do you think you'll come over tomorrow, then?

[verylisa.livejournal.com]

Yep, I think so. Eris has been a bit bratty today and said she didnae wanna go, because apparently when I get together with my friends, I don't pay enough attention to her.

(I guess this is part of the reason why people with kids tend to socialise with other people with kids - the kids can entertain each other while the grown-ups ogle Sean Maher's arse have grown-up conversations.)

Anyway, I have exercised Parental Override. And also done a small amount of bribing by promising that we will take paper and pens and sticky-pape, and make a book about fairies while we are visiting you.

What time?

[hope]

I think the gels here will be very happy to see and entertain eris, at any rate :)

i'd say, around 2-ish?