can t get on broadcast tv. they got all these emmys. they are now a place where it seems to me, i mean, there seems like they have 14 emmy nominations, and it seems to me like there s money and resources there. we re talking about how you can t get a certain kind of film made in hollywood and something like orange is the new black or house of cards which i m really loving, those are getting made. you look at arrested development, one of their hottest properties was a canceled fox tv show they were able to revive because there were some high fan demand. so it s about creating products that have kind of intensity of fan desire as opposed to breadth, right? it s like blockbusters are a million miles wide, in hd, they want to get stuff that s an inch wide and a million miles deep. the hope, the theory is to create niche markets. the problem is you have to budget it accordingly so you can get away with appealing to some of the people all of the time. for folks like yoursel
people, i m spike lee. this is my office here in ft. wayne, brooklyn. the republic of brooklyn. i need you to help me finance our new next film through kickstarter. yes, kickstarter. you heard that right. renowned film major spike lee is on kickstarter. what began as a noble cause, ultimate democratization of the film industry through crowd sourcing has taken up the plight of famous people with money. filmmakers who, perhaps, do not so much need money to start projects as they want money to start projects. the uninitiated kickstart is an online platform that helps independent filmmakers and all kinds of other folks with all kinds of ideas to get projects going through the magic of crowd finding. you have a film or creative endeavor you d like to develop, don t have the money, start a kickstarter and ask others to help you meet your goal. spike lee s voyage, asking folks for $1.25 million is just the latest entry into what has become a bit of a trend. earlier this year the creator of
are filmmakers but who had a tv distribution deal originally for the nfilm you re making now, is this exciting to you there are going to be all these new platforms that could show your film? for the kind of films that we make which are documentaries, which we welcome anything, you want to get as many on it as you can. we think there s no better experience for certain films that sitting in a theater and having a collective experience. i mean, there s a community experience of sharing the emotional experience of a movie with strangers, but for a film like ours, they don t generally have extended runs so when you have the opportunity to be on netflix, on that experience, that collective experience of going to a movie theater, is that going to economist in 20 years? i tend to think george lucas is right about that. i hope, no, no, no, no. i think with digital distribution and, you know, if theaters can if they can build smaller theaters and not go for the palaces, i think maybe y
spike lee is trying to make a new film, but he needs your help to the tune of $1.25 million. more and more major filmmakers are running away from a hollywood blockbuster factory and jumping into the arms of their fans. that s coming up. first i want to share the three awesomest things on the internet today. the first thing was online reaction to the press conference today of san diego major bob filner. the heat has been on filner this week as more and more women have come forward alleging all sorts of creepy, disgusting sexually harassing behavior by the mayor. today, filner called major press conference and admitted he has a real problem. he did not actually quit, but his microphone sure did. beginning on august 5th, i will be entering a behavior consulting counseling clinic to
the tv series veronica mars can started a kickstarter to shore up funds for a movie. asking fans to pay not for an independent film but a studio movie distributed by warner bros. fans stepped in with nearly $6 million. the film meeting its $2 million goal in less than 11 hours. movie wrapped production this week. actor and director, zach, soon swro joined in asking nonfamous people for money for a sequel to his cult hit garden state and raised a little over $3 million. that brings us back to spike lee. lee pitched his fans in the promise of spike lee joint but didn t offer too many details on what the film would be about. he did, however, remind fans of scores of other films he s made and had distributed. in lee s defense, slate points out, he has a long struggle of getting funding for his projects. last year s red hook summer was self-financed and shot in 19 days. it s something spike lee