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Old 07-20-2005, 09:57 AM   #1
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Spike movie straight to DVD?

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I think it's weird that they won't show it on TV first.
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Old 07-20-2005, 11:10 AM   #2
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I think it's weird that they won't show it on TV first.
Not really. Disney does that with a lot of their movies.
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Old 07-20-2005, 01:24 PM   #3
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Not really. Disney does that with a lot of their movies.
Yeah, but you have a built in TV audience right there. The fact that they can't get the movie on the WB doesn't sound good at all.

Unless someone can supply a reason why going straight to DVD would be better?
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Old 07-20-2005, 01:38 PM   #4
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Unless someone can supply a reason why going straight to DVD would be better?
I'm just theorizing here because I really don't know, but perhaps they see it as a limited audience that they can make more money from DVD sales than from advertising dollars on TV. Why let the small number of cult fans tape it and not spend the money on the DVD? Not that they wouldn't do both, but it is perhaps a consideration.

Or maybe no advertisers want to pay their asking price to air it, so going straight to DVD gives them a bigger profit.
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Old 07-20-2005, 02:15 PM   #5
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I remember when I meant Clare Kramer/Glory, she told me the same exact thing. Said "the lastest was a Spike movie". That she talk to James a week ago, and he said that he was all up for it. I went to a comic convention in New Jersey, about month ago. That's where I meant her. But its weird that this movie is going to dvd then Tv. It would be smart to put it on Tv and then put on dvd. Wouldn't you make more money like that?
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Old 07-20-2005, 02:39 PM   #6
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I remember when I meant Clare Kramer/Glory, she told me the same exact thing. Said "the lastest was a Spike movie". That she talk to James a week ago, and he said that he was all up for it. I went to a comic convention in New Jersey, about month ago. That's where I meant her. But its weird that this movie is going to dvd then Tv. It would be smart to put it on Tv and then put on dvd. Wouldn't you make more money like that?
Not if they can't sell the advertising. Advertisers might not think there's enough interest to justify spending money on commercial airtime for what is essentially a nostalgia project for a cult show. Networks like SciFi can get away with it (as they did with Farscape: Peacekeeper War), but I don't think the WB really needs or wants to go backward like that.

And personally, I'd like to think that James Marsters had better opportunities out there than this, and that enough was enough.

I don't need anymore, thank you. I almost gagged on the last bit of Buffyverse I ate.
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Old 07-20-2005, 03:39 PM   #7
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I don't buy it. WHY release a DVD only movie?

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Old 07-20-2005, 03:41 PM   #8
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I don't buy it. WHY release a DVD only movie?
I don't know. Let's ask those dudes at Disney that released Mulan 2 and such. I'm sure they don't know anything about the market.
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Old 07-20-2005, 03:50 PM   #9
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But Mulan 2 is animated. More expensive live action and without the pull of Disney kids stuff.
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Old 07-20-2005, 03:57 PM   #10
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I don't know. Let's ask those dudes at Disney that released Mulan 2 and such. I'm sure they don't know anything about the market.
And I have the same response to this that I do to all of those Disney sequels released to VHS/DVD, it ain't worth my time. Have you seen an actual Disney squeal that was anywhere near as good as the original? They all sucked

But that does make sense, I guess, you can count on kids wanting to see these movies no matter the quality because they're familiar. Do you think that's what ME/FOX is counting on?

ETA: Where does Disney come into this, other than having the market cornered on straight to DVD sequels?
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More expensive live action and without the pull of Disney kids stuff.
I'm not sure that any further BTVS stuff wouldn't be considered as the same kind of niche market, if not smaller. From Dusk Til Dawn 3, anyone? Cruel Intentions 2? The Crow 4?

ETA: Morrigan, I was just using Disney as an example of a major corporation who saw straight to DVD as a viable marketing strategy/outlet.
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Old 07-20-2005, 04:37 PM   #12
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And personally, I'd like to think that James Marsters had better opportunities out there than this, and that enough was enough.
I'd like to think so too, but maybe he's turning out to be the most type cast of all. I thought for sure we would have seen him in more stuff by now. Kinda like I figured we would have seen Alexis picked up for something by now as well. I guess you just never know.
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Speaking from experience as a former video store employee, usually when a movie goes straight to video or DVD, that usually means its not very good.
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Old 07-20-2005, 05:15 PM   #14
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Yeah, but you have a built in TV audience right there. The fact that they can't get the movie on the WB doesn't sound good at all.

Unless someone can supply a reason why going straight to DVD would be better?
Joss does have a built in TV audience, just a considerably smaller one than Disney. Add in the fact that the hacks running the Sci-Fi channel will be creaming themselves running to pay him the money for the rights for the first ever broadcast of said movie ad you have a recipe for limited success that is exactly the thing Joss would go for.

That way he's in a no lose situation. If the movie doesn't sell well he can say that there wasn't enough money behind the making of it and if it does, he can boast of what he could do with more money and power.

And TV execs generally being idiots and the people he hangs around with, one of them will believe him and give him what he wants.

Really you have to admire a man who's managed to parlay his limited creative skills together with an as yet unmatched or unchallenged mastery of spin doctoring into the career he's had. He has completely bullfeathered everyone who has the power to hurt his career into thinking he's so much than he really is and that nothing is ever his fault.
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Old 07-20-2005, 05:35 PM   #15
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Thanks Skippy, CB and A_T, I guess I can kind of see the logic in a move like this but I have to say, right or wrong, it totally reeks of being a bad B-flick move.
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