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Frisco17
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If by ask you mean give them a breifcase full of money you might have a shot. Other wise......no.
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Frisco17
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The only thing even remotely advertizing Futurama I've ever seen on TV were the commercials Adult Swim used to run and one that CC did when it picked up the show.
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dr.bender nye
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Originally posted by x.Bianca.x: Why did BWBB only come out today in Australia, i mean i hear NOTHING for 2 months thinking its coming out on the 8th, then the other day i search google, and what do you know, it comes out on the 6th (today) It's best to keep uptated on these things. Check all your sourses once a week. Complain at me if you must, but, just trust me. Sure is a good thing that in UK releases, we get a little leaflet thing saying when the others come out.
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JustNibblin
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Originally posted by upside_ur_head: Source? Here is an excellent DVD site that has rankings, sales numbers, and most important, MONEY MADE: http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/Futurama.php Just click on the appropriate movie title to see weekly breakdowns. Bender's Big Score made an estimated $16 million in U.S. market, estimated 900,000 units sold. I seem to remember an estimated cost of $1 million a movie, so that is GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE! Not so good is Beast with a Billion Backs--$4 million so far over three weeks, 210,000 units sold. However, it did open at #9 in total sales, but dropped off quickly after week 2. It is depressing to see 10,000 B.C. outsell Futurama, but on the other hand it seems to be the only direct-to-DVD to break the top ten recently. More worrying is that only half the number of people bought BWABB the first week out as they did BBS. Might be holiday season, but might also be that BWABB (IMHO) wasn't as good.
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Ralph Snart
Agent Provocateur
Near Death Star Inhabitant
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It is depressing to see 10,000 B.C. outsell Futurama, but on the other hand it seems to be the only direct-to-DVD to break the top ten recently. More worrying is that only half the number of people bought BWABB the first week out as they did BBS. Might be holiday season, but might also be that BWABB (IMHO) wasn't as good. It may be the other way around - a lot of people bought BBS with high expectations. Most of the people who thought that BBS was great are a few vocal people. More people felt very disappointed by BBS. Then BWABBs is released - people remember being disappointed by BBS and decide to save their money to buy other things. I'm hoping the move away from the angst and loneliness, the complete raping and destruction of the friendships of Fry, Leela and Bender will be put on hold for Bender's Game. A comical farce into the fantasy world of DnD seems to be an area where the writers can have a fun time and not get bogged down with who is hurting who's feelings. There are the people who saw it on Cartoon Network 2 times a night, sometimes up to 7 days a week. Now that Futurama's new home is Comedy Central, the eps only come on one time a day, never on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. It's also not promoted as heavily on CC as on CN. A lot of people may not even think about the Futurama DVD's because the show is not as available as it was just 9 short months ago.
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JustNibblin
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Originally posted by Ralph Snart: It may be the other way around - a lot of people bought BBS with high expectations. Most of the people who thought that BBS was great are a few vocal people. More people felt very disappointed by BBS. Then BWABBs is released - people remember being disappointed by BBS and decide to save their money to buy other things.
I'm hoping the move away from the angst and loneliness, the complete raping and destruction of the friendships of Fry, Leela and Bender will be put on hold for Bender's Game. A comical farce into the fantasy world of DnD seems to be an area where the writers can have a fun time and not get bogged down with who is hurting who's feelings.
I was wondering if that gratuitous opinion would attract attention. Looking further, Nielson ratings had 6.4 million viewers watching the last season of Futurama. I can't help but wonder that with a little advertising a lot more DVDs could have been sold. Perhaps someone (i_c_weiner?) has numbers for the audience on the Cartoon Network? And regardless of anyone's exact opinion of the two movies, all that matters in the end, that we buy them. The sales of Bender's Game will be crucial, since it will be a holiday release,and I'm sure the suits will be comparing the numbers relative to BBS.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by *JustNibblin'*: *Bender's Big Score made an estimated $16 million in U.S. market, estimated 900,000 units sold. I seem to remember an estimated cost of $1 million a movie, so that is GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE!
Not so good is Beast with a Billion Backs--$4 million so far over three weeks, 210,000 units sold. However, it did open at #9 in total sales, but dropped off quickly after week 2. * If BBS sold 220,036 its 1st week and was ranked #14 but BBB sold 126,016 and ranked #9 then Summer sales of all DVD's must be less than during the Holiday Season. BBS had over 7 months to accumulate the $16.6M figure. If BBB has earned $4M in less than a month during the "slow" season (and nutzo fuel prices and was released 3 months later than first anticipated) I would think it's doing very well. It's $4M that wouldn't be in the kitty without BBB. Now it's: $16.6M + $4M = $20.6M Early Dec. it might be something like: $20M + $10M + $5M = $35M Spring '09: $22M + $15M + $10M + $5M = $52M (on ~$4M investment)
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winna
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I'll agree with Ralph's point about Futurama not being out there as much. Its syndication run on CN was fantastic; it made ratings, it had a good timeslot, and it was promoted heavily. Moving to CC is cool... but I don't see it on that often, and don't keep track much of its timing, so I suspect this is a major factor in sales.
Also note that those numbers were in the millions of dollars in sales? Right? How many hardcore Futurama fans are there? I know they aren't all on PEEL, but I suspect that PEEL and other Futurama related web places give a pretty good glimpse of the hardcore fan community. My point? Hardcore fans aren't the only ones buying the dvds.... it's a cult television program, but casual viewers are buying the product as well. Which is how it's going to have to be to do great in sales. To bring this full circle, there's going to need to be more exposure of the show to keep those numbers up high. All that said, it seems like they're doing rather well, and assuming most of the original creative team is on board, the future of Futurama looks bright.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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That and you'd have to add the advertising revenue from Comedy Central too.
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Rolandk73
Crustacean
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If it doesn't get enough sales, Peel should use Flash to make the series!
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2.35:1
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I hope the DVDs sell good so they will make more Futurama because I like it.
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Tweek
UberMod
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I see The Wild Green Yonder is #10 on the pre-order chart at Play.com, not bad considering it isn't out till late February, the top nine are all due out this month
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