Here's Your Chance To Help Fund A Documentary About 'The Last Blockbuster'
There's only one Blockbuster Video store left in America. Here's your chance to help fund a documentary about The Last Blockbuster.
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Kickstarter Product Lets You Swing Through The Air Like Spider-Man And Will Possibly Kill You
A new Spider-Man Kickstarter project is hoping to create grappling hook arm-cannons that enable the user to swing through the air just like Spidey. Yes, this is real.
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LGBT Animated Short 'In A Heartbeat' Is A Tender Love Story That Could Rival Pixar Shorts
The four-minute short film about a young boy's same-sex crush 'In A Heartbeat' was funded by Kickstarter and created by Beth David and Esteban Bravo.
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'Back In Time' Trailer: 'Back To The Future' Documentary Will Open October 2015
The Back to the Future documentary Back in Time is scheduled for release in October 2015, the same time Marty visited 2015. See a new Back in Time trailer.
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'Shoot The Moon' Documentary Trailer: Building An Elevator To Space
Watch the Shoot the Moon trailer. The Kickstarter-funded documentary follows LiftPort's attempt to build an elevator to space.
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LeVar Burton Launches 'Reading Rainbow' Kickstarter Campaign
LeVar Burton has started a Reading Rainbow Kickstarter campaign to bring the beloved educational show back for the younger generation.
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'Back To The Future Part II' Documentary Focuses On 2015 Future Technology
A new Back to the Future 2 documentary is in production. It focuses on the technology shown in the film compared to what we actually have.
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'Inception'-Inspired Board Game Is A Dream Come True
The (unofficial) Inception board game by Pilot Study will make your dreams come true -- if your dreams involve playing around in a Christopher Nolan movie.
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'Kung Fury' Trailer: Kung Fu, Robots, Nazis, Dinosaurs, Vikings, Mutants And Gods In One Movie
Think of your favorite crazy, low-budget off the wall genre movie. Imagine that as "normal," and maybe you can understand the madness that is Kung Fury. Directed by David Sandberg, it's the story of a renegade kung-fu cop who travels back in time to kill Adolf Hitler. I know what you're thinking: "Been there done that."…
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Kickstart This: Poster Documentary 'Twenty-Four By Thirty-Six'
We here on /Film have been covering pop culture art long before it became what it is now. Years ago, Mondo posters sat on their website for days at a time, Gallery 1988 shows didn't have people camping out overnight, and eBay wasn't a wasteland of people buying posters only to turn a profit. By…
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'There Will Be No Stay' Trailer: "I Was Murdering People For Society's Revenge"
The death penalty is one of the biggest, most controversial issues in American culture. Is it okay to kill someone if they did something truly terrible, or does killing them make us just as bad as the criminal? Even if execution is deemed permissible, can it be carried out in good conscience knowing that the…
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Exclusive Poster Debut For 'Folk Hero & Funny Guy,' KickStarter Comedy Starring Alex Karpovsky
A comedian and a folk singer go on a tour. One's a success, the other is not, but they're friends and, no, this isn't the setup for a joke. It's the plot of Folk Hero & Funny Guy, a new Kickstarter project that just went online. It'll star Alex Karpovsky, who you know from Girls,…
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Spike Lee Fully Funds His Next Film Via Kickstarter
Chalk up another success story for Kickstarter. With just four days to spare, filmmaker Spike Lee has fully funded his "newest, hottest" film via the fundraising site. Lee's goal was $1.25 million and he hit that Friday morning. Check out the video thank you and more below. Here's the video Lee posted once the goal was…
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Kickstart The 'Cinefex Classic Collection' For iPad
How much would you pay for a complete written account of modern special effects, directly on your iPad? The resource would be priceless. Now, you can contribute however much you'd like. A new Kickstarter was recently started that would put the entire backlog of the legendary VFX magazine Cinefex on the iPad. Check out the pitch video…
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Spike Lee Kickstarting His Next Film About Blood And Sex
Veronica Mars, Zack Braff and now Spike Lee. The legendary director of Do The Right Thing and Malcolm X is currently finishing a remake of the Korean film Oldboy, but is turning to the fans for his next project. Lee just started a Kickstarter hoping to raise $1.25 million to make a movie about humans…
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'Back In Time': Help Kickstart A Documentary On The Culture Impact Of 'Back To The Future'
Back to the Future is one of those films we all have, and continue to make, great memories about. Whether it's the first time we saw the film, a piece of merchandise we own, a new wrinkle about its production, on an almost weekly basis Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale's 1985 masterpiece keeps reminding us…
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Zach Braff Taught Woody Allen About Crowd Funding, Plus 'Wish I Was Here' Updates
Hating on Zach Braff has become the cool thing to do. The reason being the actor/director took to Kickstarter in April to fund his next movie, Wish I Was Here. It was a polarizing move because many people felt Braff had enough clout to get traditional funding. He agreed, but decided he'd rather make the…
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Producer Brian Grazer Might Use Crowd-Funding For 'Friday Night Lights' Movie
Sometimes its easy to forget just how ubiquitous producer Brian Grazer is. Not only does he work hand in hand with Oscar-winning director Ron Howard on some of the biggest movies out there, he also shepherded a ton of well-known television shows. After some years off the air, two of his more famous shows, Arrested Development and…
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Zach Braff Scores Traditional Funding For His Kickstarter Movie, 'Wish I Was Here' [Updated]
Update: Variety has a new report on this financing deal which changes the equation. In short, it says the funds from Worldview are gap financing, which is not at all what was reported earlier. To sum up, the production is doing foreign rights sales in Cannes, which we knew, and which Braff had disclosed weeks…
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'Obey The Giant:' A Narrative Short Film On The Early Life Of Artist Shepard Fairey
Whether you've seen it on the streets of your city or on someone's hat as they walk down the street, a familiar slogan is found all over the place: "Obey." The simple command with the layered connotation is the handiwork of artist Shepard Fairey. Influenced by the film They Live and using the visage of Andre…
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Adrianne Palicki Hints At 'Friday Night Lights' Kickstarter, Bryan Fuller Says 'Pushing Daisies' Needs $10 Million
Ever since Veronica Mars paved the way for crowd-funded TV to movie revivals, it seems like every actor, writer, or director ever associated with a beloved but cancelled series has been fielding questions about Kickstarter. Some have squashed the idea right off the bat, but others have been a bit more open to the concept.…
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Help Kickstart A Documentary About 'Arrested Development'
It's been a long, strange ride for Arrested Development fans. The show suffered from painfully low ratings the whole time it was actually airing on Fox, but since its cancellation in 2006 has become popular enough to inspire Netflix to bring the series back from the dead. Now we're just a couple of months away…
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LOL: Cobra Commander Seeks Funds On Kickstarter After Losing To G.I. Joe
What's the one thing a ruthless dictator needs if he wants to take over the world? Money, and a lot of it. In today's modern, connected society, what better way to raise money than from like-minded people on Kickstarter? On a hilarious new Kickstarter page, Cobra Commander -- the leader of the evil terrorist organization…
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'Veronica Mars' Just Changed The Movie Business
In less than twelve hours, Warner Bros., Rob Thomas, Kristen Bell, and their Veronica Mars movie changed the movie business. Yesterday morning, Thomas and his cast asked fans to donate two million dollars to revive the canceled television series Veronica Mars as a feature film. Fans have hoped for such a movie for several years.…
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'Veronica Mars' Movie Completely Funded By Kickstarter In Less Than 12 Hours [Updated]
Update from Editor Peter Sciretta: In less than 12 hours from launching the kickstarter, Rob Thomas has raised over $2,000,000 for the Veronica Mars movie, hitting the goal of the project. Of course, they have 30 days left to go, and will still need the fans to help raise more money to allow them to…
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'Metalocalypse' Director Wants To Tell The Tale Of The Tim Burton Superman Movie That Never Was
Movie projects fall apart all the time, and most of the time they simply fade from memory soon afterward. Years later, the people who actually worked on the movie might be the only ones who remember it even existed to begin with. But sometimes a failed effort is so bizarre or so high-profile -- or…
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'Cove' Director Seeking Funds For 'The Heist,' The Climactic Event Of His Global Extinction Documentary
"Think Ocean's Eleven, The Avengers, but this time it's real." That's how Academy Award-winning documentarian Louie Psihoyos describes The Heist, which is the code name for the climactic event of his still untitled follow-up to the breathtaking 2009 film The Cove. With that film, Psihoyos and his team went undercover and exposed the unfathomably awful…
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