We've seen two successful big name kickstarters now, Veronica Mars and Zach Braff.
This means the end of the Hollywood "gate keepers", the money guys, the "suits", determining which movies get made and which movies don't see the light of day. You can now go directly to your fans and fund the movie. I am absolutely positive this is a new model that is here to stay and will only gain more and more popularity with the Hollywood crowd that have established themselves and now want more creative freedom.
however, the next step is distribution. Veronica Mars is going to be distributed by Warner Brothers. Distributors still have a big say in what movies get made, because they want movies for a big audience. It's been said in other threads that movies are often watered down for international audiences so they can be sold in more totalitarian places like China, or more socially prude places like India, etc.
So Veronica Mars goes forward in Kickstarter knowing they have distribution with WB, but what projects are going to flounder for lack of distribution because they don't appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I'd like to see a big name kickstarter that is then released on something like Vimeo on demand. This cuts the strings from the gate keepers totally. No Hollywood funding, AND no Hollywood distribution.
It's funded by the people, the artists keep control, and it's distributed by the artist as well. That way we have the best chance to see a more robust offering of content rather than dreck manufactured for the masses. I'm not saying that Veronica Mars or the Braff projects are dreck.
Sure, I like to see movies on the big screen, but unfortunately most of the big screens are owned by a few companies that only show what the big distributors sell them. Perhaps with digital projection we'll see some more diverse offerings on the big screen?
This means the end of the Hollywood "gate keepers", the money guys, the "suits", determining which movies get made and which movies don't see the light of day. You can now go directly to your fans and fund the movie. I am absolutely positive this is a new model that is here to stay and will only gain more and more popularity with the Hollywood crowd that have established themselves and now want more creative freedom.
however, the next step is distribution. Veronica Mars is going to be distributed by Warner Brothers. Distributors still have a big say in what movies get made, because they want movies for a big audience. It's been said in other threads that movies are often watered down for international audiences so they can be sold in more totalitarian places like China, or more socially prude places like India, etc.
So Veronica Mars goes forward in Kickstarter knowing they have distribution with WB, but what projects are going to flounder for lack of distribution because they don't appeal to the lowest common denominator.
I'd like to see a big name kickstarter that is then released on something like Vimeo on demand. This cuts the strings from the gate keepers totally. No Hollywood funding, AND no Hollywood distribution.
It's funded by the people, the artists keep control, and it's distributed by the artist as well. That way we have the best chance to see a more robust offering of content rather than dreck manufactured for the masses. I'm not saying that Veronica Mars or the Braff projects are dreck.
Sure, I like to see movies on the big screen, but unfortunately most of the big screens are owned by a few companies that only show what the big distributors sell them. Perhaps with digital projection we'll see some more diverse offerings on the big screen?
