[skippercollecto]

Firefly was a short-lived series about a completely new part of the universe with a new language and mostly unknown actors and it developed a very diehard set of fans. Sound familiar?
This time, the producers listened to the fans and created a follow-up story to put into the theaters. The film has gotten very good reviews from many of the critics and most of the fans, and the theaters it has been shown in have had very good crowds.
And, yet, it's considered a bomb box-office-wise, because, despite the ticket sales, they're not enough to satisfy the studios and the theater owners.
Which leads me to wonder:
Suppose it's early 1980. Universal, not ABC, has realized that it made a mistake in discontinuing Galactica. Instead of coming up with Galactica 1980 for ABC, the studio gets everyone involved in the original series to return and make a theatrical movie follow-up to tie up many of the series' loose ends. The film is well-written, well-acted, isn't too expensive to produce, its back story is explained so that folks who aren't familiar with BG will understand it, and the fans are impressed and delighted.
But do you think a Galactica movie in the early 1980s would have suffered the same fate as Serenity--disappearring from the cinemas very quickly and considered a box-office bomb?
Mary