May 17, 2013 @ 12:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s the story that won’t die. Worldview Entertainment has stepped into the frey with Zach Braff’s upcoming release Wish I Was Here. The movie, a spiritual successor to Braff’s hit Garden State, is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. It sits at $2.6 million pledged with a week left on the clock. Worldview Entertainment will provide gap financing, bringing… Read More

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May 16, 2013 @ 8:54 am By Forbes  |  

With the success of the Veronica Mars and Garden State-sequel Kickstarter campaigns, it appears that the crowdfunding business model has made its way to mainstream Hollywood. While crowdfunding certainly has advantages, including giving filmmakers more creative control over their projects, this business model is open to potential claims of fraud, misappropriation, conversion and embezzlement, which lead to the risk… Read More

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May 15, 2013 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Video Games: The Movie is a feature length documentary which aims to tell the untold story of video games by an in depth look into not only how games are made, marketed and consumed by looking back at the industry’s history, current trends as well as the evolution of gamer culture. Where is the industry and the audience headed? Is it… Read More

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May 13, 2013 @ 9:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Robert Downey Jr. has done quite nicely for himself playing the lead role in the Iron Man film series. With Iron Man 3 just released, people obviously want to know whether or not to expect a fourth installment in the series. Well, last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live the actor addressed speculation with tongue firmly planted in cheek… Read More

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May 7, 2013 @ 8:04 am By LA Times  |  

Even as Zach Braff was taking heat for asking the public to help finance his next movie, the actor and director was contributing to another Kickstarter campaign — to help save a historic theater in Northern California. Braff was among nearly 500 donors who helped raise $65,753 through the Kickstarter crowd-funding site to help the owners of… Read More

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May 4, 2013 @ 12:37 pm By Huffington Post  |  

It was inevitable. After the Veronica Mars folks raised their $2 million in record time, you knew a similar project would come along. Hollywood, after all, is pretty good at taking what works and doing it over and over and over again until everyone is sick of it. So you just knew that some multi-millionaire from TV would launch… Read More

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May 4, 2013 @ 12:34 pm By Twitch  |  

Andrew Morgan is an experimental filmmaker, with his feature debut Yes No Yes Yes Go a sort of documentary-fiction hybrid, so it’s fitting that he’s also decided to release the film in an experimental way. It’s a variation of what we’ve seen before, releasing a film online for a pay-per-view fee, but instead of using an iTunes-style… Read More

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May 4, 2013 @ 12:25 pm By Hollywood Reporter  |  

The “Garden State” director talks “Veronica Mars,” anxiety over hitting the crowd-funding goal and answering all his critics. Zach Braff has heard the arguments about why he shouldn’t be using Kickstarter to fund his new film. But he doesn’t buy his detractors’ logic. “My brain has trouble with the logic of saying I’m taking money away… Read More

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May 2, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Internet continues to voice concern, praise and displeasure about two recent high-profile Kickstarter movie projects.

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May 1, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As we saw with the Veronica Mars project, the Internet at large is opining on whether or not Zach Braff should be using a platform like Kickstarter to launch his new movie. Two examples today… Kickstarter Abuse: Why Are You Giving Your Money to Wealthy Celebrities? “As is the case with all amazing things, however,… Read More

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April 30, 2013 @ 7:41 am By The Guardian  |  

Actor and director Zach Braff has hit back against suggestions he ought to have used his own money to fund his next film, rather than turning to the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. Braff recently reached a $2m (£1.29m) target to shoot Wish I Was Here, a follow-up to his well-received 2004 directing debut Garden State, just five days after launching his… Read More

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April 30, 2013 @ 7:28 am By Wired  |  

These are the facts that we need to reconcile: Netflix, which recently touted its House of Cardsstrategy of original content released all at once, just surpassed cable giant HBO in number of subscribers. Kickstarter crowdfunded $5M for a Veronica Mars that would not otherwise get made. (This isn’t just one big outlier: it turns out that more than half the successfully funded projects on Kickstarter are for music,… Read More

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April 29, 2013 @ 8:20 am By The New York Times  |  

Around 10 p.m. on a recent Friday night, roughly 500 people at the Dog and Duck Pub in Austin gathered around a man holding an iPad. The man was Rob Thomas, the creator of the cult-hit television series “Veronica Mars,” and he was staring at the device, counting down the final seconds of a 30-day… Read More

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April 26, 2013 @ 7:28 am By ThinkProgress  |  

After the success of Rob Thomas’ efforts to crowdfund a Veronica Mars movie through Kickstarter, it was inevitable that some other auteur with a significant fanbase would follow his lead. That person is now Zach Braff, who as of this writing has raised about $954,000 out of a $2 million goal to make Wish I Was Here,… Read More

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April 26, 2013 @ 7:01 am By Time Business  |  

Crowdfunding used to be a last resort for projects that couldn’t raise money any other way. But in the movie business over the past year, a growing number of accomplished directors, producers and screenwriters have turned to the masses to avoid the hassle of dealing with overbearing studios. While contributions are technically considered donations, backers… Read More

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