Online Media Cultist » joss whedon http://onlinemediacultist.com Web producer, writer, online media cultist. That's how I roll. Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:31:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Joss Whedon announces there will be more Dr. Horrible to come http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/25/joss-whedon-announces-there-will-be-more-dr-horrible-to-come/ http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/25/joss-whedon-announces-there-will-be-more-dr-horrible-to-come/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:31:50 +0000 Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/25/joss-whedon-announces-there-will-be-more-dr-horrible-to-come/ Thanks go to Paul Moore at Spout for alerting me to the fact that Joss Whedon dropped word at Comic-Con that there will be more episodes of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog to come.

Check out more thoughts on Dr. Horrible here and dig the trailer below:


Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

]]> http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/25/joss-whedon-announces-there-will-be-more-dr-horrible-to-come/feed/ 1 The terrific upshot on Dr. Horrible http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/24/the-terrific-upshot-on-dr-horrible/ http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/24/the-terrific-upshot-on-dr-horrible/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:13:23 +0000 Eric Berlin http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/07/24/the-terrific-upshot-on-dr-horrible/ Though there’s no hard numbers available, the speculation is that Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog did pretty well for itself by web standards. No idea of course if that’s true or if Joss Whedon’s tragicomedy about a wannabe super villain and his quest for love even came close to covering production costs, but the model is very interesting.

Here’s what happened:

· Dr. Horrible was rolled out in three “acts” over a week, available for free viewings
· They got a bunch of great buzz from press and from reviews as well
· No more free viewing after the third act was up for just a few days
· Now you can buy the whole thing for about $4 on iTunes. TV Squad: “I do know that at the moment Dr. Horrible counts for 3 of the top 4 episodes and the top season on the U.S. lists.”

Now it gets even more interesting in that it’s a musical so we’re going to see the 1) soundtrack and 2) DVD w/ lots of extras for sale.

Joss Whedon’s fan base makes this a unique case to be sure (DVD sales brought Firefly back from the dead and lead to Serenity being made), but the model is pretty intriguing.

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