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It wasn't canceled, he chose to stop the show, and at the time it was the most viewed show [0]. They offered him a lot more money but he decided to leave on a h

It wasn't canceled, he chose to stop the show, and at the time it was the most viewed show [0]. They offered him a lot more money but he decided to leave on a high point [1]. After having one of the most successful shows of all time, he went on to create a successful movie (Bee Movie) [2] and continues to do stand-up. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld#Ratings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld#Ratings [1] http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/26/seinfeld/ http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9712/26/seinfeld/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Movie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Movie

its_so_on 15y ago
Sorry, I thought everyone knew this, I didn't pay attention to the connotation of "cancelled", since it was still cancelled. (Like, if a band's show is cancelled, it's often because of them). What I was getting at is that Seinfeld had a phenominally long TV-show run, which is extremely demanding of anyone, let alone its eponymous main character. He did not then do another long-running TV show, which would have simply been this unthinkable commitment. (This is how I'm interpreting it). I'm not saying one causes the other, but Seinfeld was very good with his system, it led to a very, very long-running TV series, and he didn't follow it up with another series. How or whether this has any effect on any projects you might do you have to decide for yourself.
reddit_clone 15y ago
> successful movie (Bee Movie) This is debatable. The way I remember it, it was a clunker.
- mangodrunk 15y ago
  Well, let's look at the numbers. With a budget of $150 million and a global box office release gross of $287 million [0], which doesn't factor in things like DVD sales/rentals and licensing, etc means they made about $137 million more than their budget. That seems like success to me, but maybe it's not that simple in the movie industry with Hollywood accounting [1] and as a lot of it seems to depend on costs after the making and a simple general guide is that the movie needs to make at least twice as much of the budget to be considered profitable [2]. [0] http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beemovie.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beemovie.htm [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting [2] http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitable http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-m...
- gnosis 15y ago
  Seinfeld is also simply not funny. Not on his show, not ever. So it's not surprising his movie was also total shit.

its_so_on 15y ago

Sorry, I thought everyone knew this, I didn't pay attention to the connotation of "cancelled", since it was still cancelled. (Like, if a band's show is cancelled, it's often because of them). What I was getting at is that Seinfeld had a phenominally long TV-show run, which is extremely demanding of anyone, let alone its eponymous main character. He did not then do another long-running TV show, which would have simply been this unthinkable commitment. (This is how I'm interpreting it). I'm not saying one causes the other, but Seinfeld was very good with his system, it led to a very, very long-running TV series, and he didn't follow it up with another series. How or whether this has any effect on any projects you might do you have to decide for yourself.

reddit_clone 15y ago

> successful movie (Bee Movie) This is debatable. The way I remember it, it was a clunker.

mangodrunk 15y ago
Well, let's look at the numbers. With a budget of $150 million and a global box office release gross of $287 million [0], which doesn't factor in things like DVD sales/rentals and licensing, etc means they made about $137 million more than their budget. That seems like success to me, but maybe it's not that simple in the movie industry with Hollywood accounting [1] and as a lot of it seems to depend on costs after the making and a simple general guide is that the movie needs to make at least twice as much of the budget to be considered profitable [2]. [0] http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beemovie.htm http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beemovie.htm [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting [2] http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-make-to-be-profitable http://io9.com/5747305/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need-to-m...
gnosis 15y ago
Seinfeld is also simply not funny. Not on his show, not ever. So it's not surprising his movie was also total shit.