The documentary relates the story of the fans and how the show has affected them, and features interviews with Whedon and various cast members. In July 2006, a fan-made documentary was released, titled Done the Impossible, and is commercially available.
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The dates for both campaigns were chosen because it is series creator Joss Whedon's birthday. On this day, Serenity and Firefly were ranked second and third, respectively, on the DVD Best Sellers list. Īnother campaign on Jreferred to the date as Serenity Day, on which fans bought-and got others to buy-copies of the Se' renity and Firefly DVDs in hopes of convincing Universal that creating a sequel was a good business decision. As of 2016, Can't Stop the Signal has raised more than $1,200,000. Can't Stop the Serenity continues to support Equality Now by hosting charity screenings of Serenity and other events around the world. The event raised over $65,000 for Whedon's favorite charity, Equality Now. On June 23, 2006, fans organized the first worldwide charity screenings of Serenity in 47 cities, dubbed as Can't Stop the Serenity or CSTS, an homage to the movie's tagline, "Can't stop the signal". The film was not as commercially successful as fans had hoped, opening at number two and making only $40 million worldwide during its initial theatrical release. Numerous early screenings were held for existing fans in an attempt to create a buzz and increase ticket sales when it was released widely on September 30, 2005.
(The title of Serenity was chosen, according to Whedon, because Fox still owned the rights to the name 'Firefly'). These and other continuing fan activities eventually persuaded Universal Studios to produce a feature film, Serenity. Navy ships by April 2004 for recreational viewing by their crews. A subsequent fan campaign then raised over $14,000 in donations to have a purchased Firefly DVD set placed aboard 250 U.S. While unsuccessful in finding a network that would continue the show, their support led to a release of the series on DVD in December 2003. Their efforts included raising money for an ad in Variety magazine and a postcard writing campaign to UPN. These original fans, self-styled Browncoats, first organized to try to save the series from being canceled by Fox. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is."įirefly generated a loyal base of fans during its three-month original broadcast run on Fox in late 2002. There's a doctor, too, took his genius sister from some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile, (you understand). We even picked up a preacher for some reason, and a bona fide companion. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity.
(The) Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself.
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