Veronica Mars

I bet Piz is working for Buzzfeed.

Piz: everything that is wrong with this world, basically.

cute but i don't a believe for a sec that this will fly

In just the couple of minutes it took me to skim through the pitch, they'd made another $20k.

Today is bad, but I might try to give $25 at least

I was skeptical until (like Johnny Fever) I noticed it went up about $25k in the three minutes or so it took me to read through all the options.

They're already over $300k now; I can almost see them making their goal by the end of the day tomorrow.

man, i had completely blocked piz from my memory

Lucky you!

close to $475K now!

who's piz again?

The TV show never got released on region 2 dvD (UK) I think. I was looking for something awesome to rent for my o/h when he was housebound but I'd have to stump up import prices :(

I forgot about Piz, but I don't remember disliking him particularly.

Weevil must be in this, obvs.

Piz was a corny indie fuck from Veronica's year at college.

close to $475K now!

― smh on the water (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:57 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

900

damn

Over halfway there already...

damn this is moving fast

Amanda Palmer will be grinding her teeth with envy.

17000 people averaging $70 apiece.

I need to come up with some kind of Kickstarter scam scheme product.

xpost -- don't even invoke her name, she'll find a way to be on the soundtrack

That is true.

I need to come up with some kind of Kickstarter scam scheme product.

ILX: the Kickstarter

Instead of pledging money, you send Buffy dvds.

Would pay for Party Down, would not pay for V. Mars, which fell off hard after season one.

Also, really uncomfortable giving money to Hollywood to make stuff for us to pay for.

That's because you'll pirate it otherwise, you heartless criminal.

tbf, most of the packages include a DVD so you don't have to pay twice

Some even come pre-chewed.

Do I get a share of the profits? Of whatshername's salary and (herherhe) backend?

I leave ilx for half the day, see this thread bumped, and the kickstarter project is already at $1.5 million. Daaaaamn. Looks like some other people love Veronica Mars, too.

No, you're just pre-ordering a DVD at an inflated price because you feel like if you don't, you'll never see a Veronica Mars movie. If you're someone who lusts after a VM movie or another season of Firefly or w/e, this is perfectly reasonable calculation.

A share of their mega, mega profits on this Veronica Mars movie, as Veronica Mars and Party Down made so much cash for the actors and writers

So, about Amanda Palmer and envy...nah, she is TOTALLY angling for that soundtrack spot, I can tell:

https://twitter.com/amandapalmer/status/311941320702820353

You mean mid-00s UPN shows weren't billion-dollar properties?

t-shirt + DVD for $50 isn't so bad... that's about what a ticket to a show + a t-shirt runs you these days.

most LOL support premium -- kristen bell will follow you on twitter!

at least they find it funny, rather than the Penny Arcade assholes who were selling you a precious retweet

amanda palmer is the worst dot avi

I was kinda tempted by the $750 one with tickets to the premiere, but I already spent $422 on music this year, so the entertainment budget is tight.

Xpost, mostly just complaining, but come on,.if you don't think the people behind this show didn't make a hunk of change just because they weren't hits, you don't know Hollywood, where even failure pays. 1 of my favorite magazine profiles of all time was of the star of the then lowest rated show on TV, Nick Freno Licensed Teacher. even he had a house on the hills with a pool.

IDG the revelance? Yeah, Kristen Bell is doing okay, though probably not okay enough to fund a multi-million dollar film on her own. Is this a charity drive for the cast?

I don't think Wallace has a house in the Hollywood Hills, though.

Yeah, young people make great financial decisions.

http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2012/02/la-home-of-kristen-bell-falls-into.html?m=1

I mean, assuming that dude wasn't in a non-failure later, Do you think he is still in that house?

Man, I wonder if we can earmark $$$ for Wallace.

xpost The relevance is in reference to folks that jibed sarcastically that Veronica Mars was a mega money maker or a billion dollar property, raining cash. Any way you slice it, the principals behind it got paid and got rich. Maybe not by Seinfeld standards, but extremely well off by human standards, if maybe not Hollywood standards. This is not a Kickstarter for a struggling musician or hand-to-mouth documentary film. This is raising money for a corporate project. With, granted, some talented and creative people involved, none of whom I imagine will be working for sub-scale, taking turns cooking pasta for the crew, rolling their paychecks into the production. I think every fan should be allowed to keep their favorite stuff going, by any means necessary. No one is twisting any arms here. But this makes Amanda Palmer's outstretched hand seem modest in comparison.

i'll own up to dropping $50 on this. that's like my fiancee and i going out to see two movies, neither of which would be about veronica mars. down for that.

I mean, assuming that dude wasn't in a non-failure later

The relevance is in reference to folks that jibed sarcastically that Veronica Mars was a mega money maker or a billion dollar property, raining cash.

Any way you slice it, the principals behind it got paid and got rich. Maybe not by Seinfeld standards, but extremely well off by human standards, if maybe not Hollywood standards. This is not a Kickstarter for a struggling musician or hand-to-mouth documentary film. This is raising money for a corporate project. With, granted, some talented and creative people involved, none of whom I imagine will be working for sub-scale, taking turns cooking pasta for the crew, rolling their paychecks into the production.

If they're trying to make this for $2mn or whatever, then yeah, Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell will be working for peanuts. If Bell wanted to make money, she'd sign on for another rom-com when her Showtime series is on hiatus. The entire idea is that Thomas needed to prove that there's a dedicated fanbase that will pay plenty of money to see the film, allowing the WB to let it be made risk-free, and so everyone's desires are served. Without the Kickstarting there's no movie.

Nm Josh in Chicago and his 'crusades'

OK so how much money is this actually gonna end up with? This is insane tbh.

I am so on a "crusade." This particular crusade has me up in arms, Arms, I tell you! I'm crusading! Or at least on a "crusade."

Tbh, I'm having trouble figuring out what the $2mil is for. To prove to WB that there is interest? To pay for the production, with WB handling distro and promotion? To pay for part of the production, with WB kicking in a bunch having received proof of interest? Iirc correctly, $2mil was around the cost of an ep of the show. I think the pilot was maybe $3mil.

That's probably the minimum they could do it for.

Over $1.8 million at this stage, plus nearly all high end packages over $500 are spoken for aside from two of the $5000 ones. I'm bizarrely impressed, this'll be funded within twelve hours total at this rate.