Serenity (2005 film) they will likely continue their pursuit in retribution for getting the word out. "Serenity" takes off with River as Mal's new pilot. The film is based on "Firefly", a television series canceled by the Fox Broadcasting Company in December 2002, after 11 of its 14 produced episodes had aired. Attempts to have other networks acquire the series failed, and creator Joss Whedon started to sell it as a film. He had been working on a film script since the show's cancellation. Shortly after the cancellation, he contacted Barry Mendel, who was working with Universal Studios, and "flat-out asked him" for
Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant Cafe shows entire short films. In 2014, NBCUniversal opened a new Universal Orlando hotel called Cabana Bay Beach Resort, which houses the Bayliner Diner, a restaurant that borrows its premise from the Sci-Fi Dine-In. Both restaurants play old film footage on a loop. The Sci-Fi Dine-In has received mixed reviews. Jack Hayes of "Nation's Restaurant News" calls the Sci-Fi Dine-In "wacky" and "on the cutting edge of sheer dining fun". In "USA Today"'s list of the sixteen best restaurants in American amusement parks, the Sci-Fi Dine-In ranks fifteenth. Samuel Muston of "The Independent" writes that the Sci-Fi Dine-In is "memorable