Tagged: movies

June 26, 2013 @ 4:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: Funding successful! The documentary was fully funded overnight and the project is a go. Kickstarted, the Kickstarter documentary crowdfunding on Kickstarter, is teetering on the edge of missing a funding goal with less than 24 hours left in the campaign. We first reported on… Read More

June 18, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

James Franco is probably best known for roles in the cult classic TV series Freaks and Geeks and movies like Spider Man and Oz: The Great and Powerful. Franco is also an author, having penned a book of short fictional stories based on his experience growing up in Palo… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 4:21 pm By Variety  |  

Kickstarter has leveled the playing field for artists in need of funding. But the influx of pros like Zach Braff has many wondering how crowdfunding will be transformed by showbiz (and vice versa). Over the past four years, Kickstarter has earned a reputation as the place where creators… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 9:10 pm By The Impaler Speaks  |  

Hybrid Vigor stirred the imaginations of film-lovers and crowdfunders the world over in the summer of 2012 with a Kickstarter campaign for the ages and a nod as Indiewire’s Project Of The Week. Filming is underway and on schedule. The Impaler Speaks has featured two previous interviews with creator Brandon Fowler, which… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 8:58 am By ReadScreen  |  

Project: Linsanity  Funding goal: US$117,000 Amount raised: $167,916 Kickstarter backers: 2,102 Key takeaway: Have a plan and identify potential “super fans” “Plan, plan, plan” is the main piece of advice coming from Linsanity producer Allen Lu, who oversaw the Kickstarter campaign for the Sundance documentary selection which tracked Asian-American basketball star Jeremy… Read More

June 2, 2013 @ 11:15 am By Real Screen  |  

Project: Inocente Funding goal: US$50,000 Amount raised: $52,527 Kickstarter backers: 294 Key takeaway: Know how much you need Husband and wife directorial team Sean Fine (pictured above, right) and Andrea Nix Fine (left) were in post-production on their 39-minute doc Inocente when they decided to turn to Kickstarter for help. The film… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarted is the first documentary feature about the crowdfunding revolution that tells the inspiring and dramatic stories of the artists, makers and entrepreneurs who are harnessing the crowd to achieve the impossible. Jason Cooper and Jay Armitage have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their documentary about… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 10:06 pm By LA Times  |  

‘Blue Ruin’ and ‘The Opportunist’ were admitted to the festival, bringing their respective teams of young American filmmakers to the Riviera (on the cheap-ish). A few months ago, Jeremy Saulnier had risen early for a flight to Cleveland when he saw a message in his… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:49 am By Film School Rejects  |  

Recently, the act of donating to or promoting a Kickstarter campaign has become a highly politicized and moralized one for movie fans, an act brimming with questions, crises, and conundrums about systemic economic disadvantages normalized by dominant industries of filmmaking. Suspicion has been directed in droves toward… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 8:03 am By LA Times  |  

Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff’s recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show “Veronica Mars.” Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart, who failed in her efforts to raise $2 million for a romantic comedy in… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 3:06 pm By The Salt Lake Tribune  |  

The crowd-funding drive for Richard Dutcher’s “The Boys at the Bar” met its goal over the weekend — only now there’s another twist. Dutcher proclaimed victory Saturday on his Facebook page, after donations to fund post-production on his new comedy went over the $30,000 goal. On Sunday, though, Kickstarter… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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.