Tagged: veronica mars

May 25, 2013 @ 6:47 pm By MSN News  |  

Creative types are flocking to Kickstarter, GoFundMe and other sites to fund their dreams, but what happens when no one buys into their ideas? If you’re plugged into the news, you’ve no doubt seen splashy headlines about successful Kickstarter campaigns in recent months. In March,… 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 14, 2013 @ 8:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Updated: Click here for the most recent version of this list… You may remember that we recently did this list on December 31st of last year. In just short of six months we have added 14 more campaigns to the list of Kickstarter raises that have… 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 @ 9:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today Kickstarter co-founders Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler took to the Kickstarter blog to answer criticism regarding recent high-profile campaigns launched by relative celebrities. In case you missed the backlash, here are some reference points: Today in “Should Celebrities Use Kickstarter?” Internet Reacts… 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

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 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

April 13, 2013 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Veronica Mars film crowdfunding saga has been covered extensively in the press, including these pages.  The incredible amount of funds, the high profile of the organizers and the glam of Hollywood have combined to create a compelling crowdfunding odyssey which has come to exemplify… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Thomas shares his reaction to the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter reaching $5 million dollars. More on the Veronica Mars project on Crowdfund Insider: Veronica Mars Crosses $5 Million With 2 Days To Go Veronica Mars Movie Wants To Be Biggest Kickstarter Movie Ever Veronica… Read More

April 10, 2013 @ 11:26 pm By Zap2It  |  

The Kickstarter campaign to fund the“Veronica Mars” movie reached its original $2 million goal in less than 12 hours, and now it has officially passed the $5 million mark with over two days still to go. How high will the crowdfunded budget go? Back when the Kickstarter was at… Read More

April 4, 2013 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Kickstarter crowdfunding effort launched by Rob Thomas to crowdfund the Veronica Mars film has set a new goal.  Thomas wants their crowdfunding campaign to be the largest ever – in number of supporters. On a recent update posted on their campaign page, Thomas stated,… Read More

April 4, 2013 @ 2:32 am By Guyism  |  

A fool and his money are soon parted, especially when it’s a lot of fools and a lot of money. I wrote about the Veronica Mars kickstarter a while back with a pretty positive tone – I was a fan of the show and thought… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:08 am By Geekosystem  |  

There’s been something of an uproar lately about Kickstarter. Specifically, folks have been questioning the meaning of the immensely successful Veronica Mars movie campaign. Does this mean we can use Kickstarter to fund whatever we want? Can we cut out Hollywood entirely? On the negative… Read More

March 16, 2013 @ 3:51 am By Slate  |  

It took three days for Veronica Mars to change the way movies are made. Or maybe it didn’t. As the Kickstarter for the Veronica Mars Movie Project sailed past its $2 million goal in a scant 10 hours—as I write, the budget is at $3.3 million and counting—bereft fans of Terriers, Chuck,Pushing Daisies,… Read More

March 14, 2013 @ 10:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

We reported yesterday on the incredible success of the Veronica Mills film on Kickstarter.  As of today the crowdfunding project has raised over $3,000,000 from well over 48,000 supporters.  Wow. In a comment on their project page they note: We were the fastest Kickstarter project… Read More