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Discuss “Unforunate victims of box office failure”

It?s a damn shame that Serenity hasn?t broken even at the box office yet. While this summer was a relatively disappointing one in theatres, movies with originality still did relatively well. Last weekend, when Serenity opened, it was pitted against the Jodie Foster airline thriller Flightplan and only made $10 million ? a paltry sum for an epic sci-fi adventure from an acclaimed writer and director.

Joss Whedon has birthed some of the most popular television shows in the past decade ? Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off, Angel, and the cult hit Firefly. Unfortunately, the Fox network canceled Firefly in 2002 after not quite one full season; but after it sold extremely well on DVD, Universal picked up the rights to make a film based

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