Tagged: movie

December 27, 2016 @ 5:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than one year after Indiegogo success Lazer Team hit theaters, director and producer, Matt Hullum announced filming for Lazer Team 2 is set to begin spring 2017 in Texas. The film received over $2.3 million during its crowdfunding campaign in 2014 and raised an additional $1 million in theatrical release… Read More

October 29, 2016 @ 11:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a month after wrapping up the filming portion of Super Troopers 2, director and star Jay Chandrasekhar offered backers a quick update on the highly anticipated comedy’s progress. As previously reported, the production company Broken Lizard originally sought to raise $2 million for… Read More

June 27, 2016 @ 3:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Olga Kurylenko has reportedly signed up to join the cast of the equity crowdfunding film, Salty. This news comes nearly two months after Antonio Banderas signed up to star in the upcoming movie. As previously reported, the project first appeared on SyndicateRoom in 2014. The offer allowed smaller… Read More

June 15, 2016 @ 8:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Indiegogo success Range 15 is set to kick off in over 550 theaters across the U.S. on Wednesday. The film launched on the global crowdfunding portal back in 2015 and has since secured over $1 million. The creators, which are nine veterans, behind new movie The creators, which… Read More

June 6, 2016 @ 4:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to bring Peter Flannery’s novel, First And Only, to the big screen, a UK-based studio with the same name as the book has launched a Seedrs initiative to raise £120,000 for the film’s production. The thriller, which was published through Amazon, has had over 60,000 downloads since its… Read More

June 6, 2016 @ 3:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two weeks until its Kickstarter comes to an end, Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby film adaptation project has successfully secured its initial $250,000 goal. As previously reported, Oregon independent filmmaker, Josh Leake, and his team at Mindpollen Studios launched the Kickstarter initiative for the 2002 novel. Palahniuk is an American novelist and… Read More

June 3, 2016 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

KAsh Pictures, a Los Angeles production studio, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $100,000 for the new film, The Order. The action-packed movie will star various actors of the hit TV series, Power Rangers.  The Order follows a group of vigilantes who often shadows… Read More

March 26, 2016 @ 9:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This evening, actor Don Cheadle will be heading to Cincinnati, Ohio premiere of his Indiegogo project, Miles Ahead. The film was reportedly filmed in the city in 2014 and tonight’s even will be taking place at Esquire Theatre in Clifton. Academy-Award nominated actor launched a campaign on the… Read More

March 25, 2016 @ 1:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Super Troopers star Erik Stolhanske offered up details about Super Troopers 2 Indiegogo perk, the International Beer Fest competition, which was held in Chicago last month. Stolhanske, who was known as “Rabbit” in the original film and now “Mink,” revealed in the campaign’s latest… Read More

February 22, 2016 @ 1:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, creators of the Indiegogo success, Gosnell Movie, announced that Emmy-winning composers Boris and Deeji Zelkin have officially started working on the film’s music. Back in 2014, producer Phelim McAleer, and his wife, Ann McElhinney, launched the campaign on the global crowdfunding platform, which aimed to… Read More

February 18, 2016 @ 12:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, the original cast of the hit 1970s series Good Times launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise a whopping $1 million so that they can create a full-length reunion movie. The show, which aired from February 1974 to August 1979, was a spin-off… Read More

February 12, 2016 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg, the filmmakers behind the upcoming Bill Nye Film documentary, announced a production update to their Kickstarter backers. The project surfaced on the crowdfunding portal last summer and slowly reached its initial $650,000 goal. By the end of… Read More

February 5, 2016 @ 12:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the release of Blue Mountain State: the Rise of Thadland, creator Eric Falconer announced Arizona State University as winner of the film’s college contest. During its run on Kickstarter, BMS enlisted universities across the country to support their project (and more than a few from outside the… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With Blue Mountain State: Rise of Thadland set to be unleashed to the world tomorrow (February 2nd), Alan Ritchson sat down to discuss the highly anticipated film. Eric Falconer, the creator of the popular television series, launched a crowdfunding campaign in early 2014 to help… Read More

January 21, 2016 @ 2:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until its sci-fi/comedy Lazer Team premieres, Rooster Teeth has released details on where and when fans can see it. The film first hit Indiegogo in July 2014 to raise $650,000 and within three days raised well over $1M. By the end of its crowdfunding… Read More

January 14, 2016 @ 5:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week after Blue Mountain State: The Ride of Thadland’s first clip was released, entertainment giant Lionsgate unleashed the highly anticipated film’s official trailer. Eric Falconer, the creator of the popular television series, launched a crowdfunding campaign in early 2014 to help finance its feature-length film…. Read More

January 14, 2016 @ 10:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Broken Lizard, the studio behind the cult classic Super Troopers, recently offered up a new update for the film’s upcoming sequel. Earlier this year, Broken Lizard announced the sequel just 14 years after the first film’s release at the 2001 Sundance Festival. The crew revealed that… Read More

January 11, 2016 @ 10:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Eric Falconer, the creator of Kickstarter success Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland, unveiled the film’s first official clip. Blue Mountain State, a popular television series that was apparently cancelled far too soon, launched a crowdfunding campaign in early 2014 to help finance its feature-length… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 3:15 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  While the crew behind a great movie may think outside the box to create the flick, the single-occupant Solo Theater, from Japanese design house Lucy Alter Design, means you can now watch a film in a box, using your smartphone or tablet–all by yourself. Now overfunding on Japanese platform Makuake,… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 2:54 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  When filming a documentary about crowdfunding, crowdfunding seems only natural as the way to fund it. Enter “Capital C,” among the first crowdfunded feature-length documentaries about crowdfunding–or as the tagline states, “Crowdfunding. Crowdsourcing. Bottle Koozies.” “Capital C” successfully raised $84,298 with 586 backers on Kickstarter. For the documentary, filmmaking… Read More