Tagged: film

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 12, 2013 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently there have been a lot of headlines and discussions regarding celebrities or the affluent utilizing crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter.  High profile film crowfunding for a Veronica Mars film or the project by Zach Braff have engendered a healthy discussion about who crowdfunding is for… Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Completely politically incorrect, this video shows what actually goes into raising the ‘easy money’ known as ‘kickstarting’ or ‘crowdfunding’. Crowdfunding is a ton of work.  Taking on a crowdfunding project is no Field of Dreams because you have to fight you way to the top…. 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 6, 2013 @ 3:56 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdIt crowdfunding platform has announced that a local film company, Brutal Brothers Films, will receive a crowdfunding opportunity at no charge, as part of the “DreamIt Award” given at the SATO48 film contest for Springfield and the Ozarks filmmakers.  Brutal Brothers Films will have the opportunity… 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 @ 12:25 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 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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

April 28, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

With 26 days left to go on his Kickstarter crowdfunfunding campaign, Zach Braff’s film project “Wish I Was Here” surpassed their crowdfunding goal.  The original target was to raise $2Million and as of this morning the total stands at well over $2.1 Million supported by… Read More

April 27, 2013 @ 2:04 am By Variety  |  

Speaking at an MPAA, Microsoft and Time event called the Creativity Conference Friday, former President Bill Clinton talked up crowdfunding as a potentially important avenue for filmmakers and others to “make more messages that we want to go viral.” Clinton, delivering the keynote address, singled… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seed&Spark is a trail blazer in the film crowdfunding movement launching one of the first pure film crowdfunding sites in the hot  crowdfunding film industry.  Aiming to disrupt and support independent film, Seed&Spark has continued to grow, add features and expand.  Recently they shared some… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

My Netflix viewing history would tell you I’m a documentary nut. Color me excited, because this Kickstarter campaign aims to create a documentary about Aaron Swartz’s life and death and it looks fantastic. The video above is 10 minutes long, but the last 7 or… Read More

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… Read More