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16 hours ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Revenge, How I Met Your Mother, Castle and Arrow!
1 | Orphan Black‘s tail reveal: Crazy awesome or just plain crazy? And did the special insignia ring on Helena’s handler’s finger give any Elementary fans a deja vu moment flashing back to last month’s “Dead Man’s Switch” episode?
2 | Wouldn’t Revenge‘s big Patrick cliffhanger have packed a bigger punch had they actually cast an actor in time for the »
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19 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Brian Grazer has said that a new Friday Night Lights movie is still in the works.
The producer, whose Imagine Entertainment made the original 2004 movie and its subsequent TV series, revealed that the fresh film spinoff could utilise the crowdfunding model recently used by Veronica Mars and Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here.
"We made a terrific feature with Peter Berg, turned it into a terrific TV series and will now make a movie from that series," Grazer told Deadline. "I'm not sure such a thing has been done before."
Berg and Friday Night Lights series writer Jason Katims were working on a script to revive the football drama for the big screen as recently as last year.
The story is said to focus on the lives of football coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) and his wife Tami (Connie Britton) after they leave Texas.
Battleship director Berg told Digital »
16 May 2013 2:28 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
USA rolled out a pretty hefty list of new dramas in development at its upfront on Thursday (May 16) to go along with the two original comedies it's picked up.
The cable channel says it's ready to start production on "Horizon," a drama from "The Walking Dead" executive producer Gale Anne Hurd that's set in World War II. Written by Bridget Tyler ("Burn Notice"), it centers on a woman working at the FBI who stumbles on a top-secret project, code named "Horizon," that could provide answers about her husband's death. Needless to say, she also invites some trouble for herself with her investigation.
"Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas also has a show in the works at USA: "Blanco County," based on a series of books by Ben Rehder. It's about a retired baseball player who runs for sheriff in his small Texas hometown -- one that he's spent most of his »
- editorial@zap2it.com
16 May 2013 1:00 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Here's a bit more casting news for you today: Hugo co-stars Asa Butterfield and Chloë Grace Moretz will reunite for The White Circus, the debut feature from the writing-directing team of Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, known collectively as Clyde Henry. Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) will join Zach Braff's successfully Kickstarted movie, Wish I Was Here. Hit the jump for more on both casting announcements. First up from Screen Daily comes the news that Butterfield and Moretz will be joining the dark fantasy tale, The White Circus. Also on board are Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion) and Christian Friedel (The White Ribbon). The movie is described as “a dark fairytale of with moments of brilliant black comedy” and it centers on a young pilot who crashes his plane in a war-torn town and "befriends a talking circus bear, falls in love with a cabaret singer and challenges a maniacal despot. »
- Dave Trumbore
16 May 2013 11:47 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Producer Brian Grazer, and his company Imagine Entertainment, would very much like to crowd-fund the long-rumored Friday Night Lights movie. (The series, itself adapted from a film, ran for five seasons on NBC, ending in 2011.) “We made a terrific feature with Pete Berg, turned it into a terrific TV series and will now make a movie from that series. I’m not sure such a thing has been done before,” Grazer told Deadline. Grazer is out of the country and unavailable for comment, though Imagine told us that while discussions are ongoing, there are no plans yet.
The question isn’t really, »
- Adam Carlson
16 May 2013 10:46 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Clear eyes, full hearts: According to a new report from Deadline.com, Imagine Entertainment producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are planning to use crowdfunding to help bring "Friday Night Lights" back to the big screen. Imagine is the studio that produced five seasons of the acclaimed television series, which itself started as a book by Buzz Bissinger and a movie from director Peter Berg.
"We made a terrific feature with Pete Berg, turned it into a terrific TV series and will now make a movie from that series," Grazer told Deadline.com. "I'm not sure such a thing has been done before."
For fans, the idea that the future of "Friday Night Lights" rests in the interiors of their wallets should be of little surprise. After Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell used Kickstarter to fund a big-screen version of cult series "Veronica Mars," "Friday Night Lights" co-star Adrianne Palicki »
- The Huffington Post
16 May 2013 8:31 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
For a few months now, the words 'crowdfunding' and 'Kickstarter' have been on the lips of producers and studio executives all over Hollywood. The tremendous success of the "Veronica Mars' movie on the crowd-funding platform has seemingly opened the way to all kinds of other projects, most notably Zach Braff and his second feature "Wish I Was Here." But we've always been a little worried that it could be a double-edged sword; that executives would stop rolling the dice on risky projects and simply go straight to the fans to root through their wallets. And lo, it came to pass. Deadline reports that Ron Howard (estimated net worth: $140 million) and Brian Grazer (estimated net worth: $100 million) were in Cannes to introduce their slate for their company Imagine Entertainment, and among the news is that the duo are planning to use crowdfunding to raise money for the movie version of »
- Oliver Lyttelton
16 May 2013 6:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Traditional investment takes total backing for Wish I Was Here to $10m, raising further questions about $2.6m Kickstarter funds
It was Scrubs star Zach Braff who announced that his new comedy – the follow-up to 2004's well-received Garden State – could not get made without the help of fans' financial support on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. But a month on from launching a high-profile campaign to raise funding for independent film Wish I Was Here, Braff has not only hit his $2m Kickstarter target but secured millions of dollars in extra support from a traditional film financier.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday that Worldview Entertainment is stepping in with extra funds that will take the film's total budget to about $10m. "Zach has proven again that he is a creative force in independent film, and we were immediately drawn to his powerful and unique story," Worldview CEO Christopher Woodrow told the site at the Cannes film festival. »
- Ben Child
16 May 2013 6:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Traditional investment takes total backing for Wish I Was Here to $10m, raising further questions about $2.6m Kickstarter funds
It was Scrubs star Zach Braff who announced that his new comedy – the follow-up to 2004's well-received Garden State – could not get made without the help of fans' financial support on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. But a month on from launching a high-profile campaign to raise funding for independent film Wish I Was Here, Braff has not only hit his $2m Kickstarter target but secured millions of dollars in extra support from a traditional film financier.
The Hollywood Reporter revealed on Wednesday that Worldview Entertainment is stepping in with extra funds that will take the film's total budget to about $10m. "Zach has proven again that he is a creative force in independent film, and we were immediately drawn to his powerful and unique story," Worldview CEO Christopher Woodrow told the site at the Cannes film festival. »
- Ben Child
16 May 2013 5:55 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York — Duncan Sheik is part of an unusual campaign on Kickstarter: Not to get his musical "American Psycho" up and running. It's to make it killer.
The Almeida Theatre in London has already agreed to mount the world stage premiere of Bret Easton Ellis' novel this winter but Sheik wants to give it a $150,000 infusion.
The Kickstarter campaign, which ends May 24, will go to fund things like more musicians, better sets and top-notch lights. As of Thursday morning, it had raised $78,830.
"This allows us to up the ante in terms of what the production is going to entail," the Grammy- and Tony-winning singer-songwriter said. "I think it's about being able to do things in the space that make for a really cool immersive theatrical experience."
The 1991 novel – made into a movie starring Christian Bale – follows a homicidal New York yuppie named Patrick Bateman who is obsessed with high-end »
- AP
16 May 2013 5:49 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
USA network brass will greet its Madison Avenue buyers Thursday with new comedy, a daytime offering and lots more in development. In addition to revealing two comedy series --Sirens, from Denis Leary (Rescue Me) and Bob Fisher (Wedding Crashers), and Playing House, from Best Friends Forever duo Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham-- co-presidents Jeff Wachtel and Chris McCumber are set to announce that they'll be adapting journalist Cat Greenleaf’s Talk Stoop franchise into a series of vignettes for USA's daytime block. Also likely to get a mention during the network's Pier 36 upfront presentation is a robust drama development slate with projects from Royal Pains' Michael Rauch, Burn Notice's Matt Nix, Suits' Doug Liman and Veronica Mars' Rob Thomas. Comedy has been a priority
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- Lacey Rose
16 May 2013 3:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Melissa Joan Hart is the first star to miss the crowdfunding gravy train. If only she'd said 'I'm doing a Sabrina film! The 90s Lol'
If you're a certain age, Melissa Joan Hart will be an indelible part of your childhood. Her TV show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, was an endless font of positive adolescent reinforcement, reassuring you that whoever you were – a human, a witch, a witch's oddly stilted on-off boyfriend, a jerky animatronic cat that had no real reason to be as abrasive as it was, a witch's aunt who seemed to be in thrall to the beauty of her own neck – you were special.
Except, this apparently isn't the case. Nobody is special, it turns out, not even Melissa Joan Hart. She has just become the first high-profile celebrity to fail to have a movie funded by Kickstarter. After the Veronica Mars film raised over $2m in »
- Stuart Heritage
16 May 2013 3:25 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Melissa Joan Hart is the first star to miss the crowdfunding gravy train. If only she'd said 'I'm doing a Sabrina film! The 90s Lol'
If you're a certain age, Melissa Joan Hart will be an indelible part of your childhood. Her TV show, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, was an endless font of positive adolescent reinforcement, reassuring you that whoever you were – a human, a witch, a witch's oddly stilted on-off boyfriend, a jerky animatronic cat that had no real reason to be as abrasive as it was, a witch's aunt who seemed to be in thrall to the beauty of her own neck – you were special.
Except, this apparently isn't the case. Nobody is special, it turns out, not even Melissa Joan Hart. She has just become the first high-profile celebrity to fail to have a movie funded by Kickstarter. After the Veronica Mars film raised over $2m in »
- Stuart Heritage
15 May 2013 10:59 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
News Simon Brew 16 May 2013 - 06:53
Zach Braff turns to traditional financing to top up the budget for Wish I Was Here. But does that go against the spirit of crowdfunding?
We've not really covered the furore surrounding Zach Braff's decision to turn to Kickstarter to finance his new film. Instead, we've been focusing our energies on our weekly crowdfunding column, which aims to uncover smaller projects that are inevitably less high profile. That's not a slight aimed at Zach Braff, we should note, and we're firm believers that people can do pretty much whatever they want to do with their money.
There was, though, quite the uproar when Braff turned down traditional financing methods for his second feature as director, Wish I Was Here. Raising over $2m through Kickstarter, the problem as many saw it was that Braff had enough clout to get that kind of funding together himself. »
- simonbrew
15 May 2013 3:03 PM, PDT | Tubefilter.com | See recent Tubefilter News news »
Teal Sherer is best known to online video audiences for her role as Venom, a member of the antagonistic Axis of Anarchy in The Guild. Recently, however, Sherer has made a name for herself with My Gimpy Life, a comedy based around her life as an aspiring actress who happens to be in a wheelchair. Sherer is hoping to make a second season of the award-winning show, so she's taken to Kickstarter, where she is hoping for $50,000 in crowdfunded support. In Sherer's pitch video, she explains the impact the first season of My Gimpy Life had, both on its audience and on the handicapped community. She notes that network sitcoms cost "a billion dollars per episode...probably" so she's really not asking for much. “People with disabilities are rarely seen and heard in TV and film, and it’s been so rewarding to take control and create my own show. »
- Sam Gutelle
15 May 2013 10:30 AM, PDT | Access Hollywood | See recent Access Hollywood news »
Your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans
"Darci's Walk of Shame" - Literally!: "Veronica Mars" and Zach Braff might be able to persuade people to give them their money to make a movie, but Melissa Joan Hart... not so much. The former "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" star attempted to resurrect her film career with the project "Darci's Walk of Shame." The film is described as the story of what goes down after "an impulsive act has Darci face enormous hurdles to get back to her sister's wedding and avoid her family witness her first walk of shame." She asked her ...
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15 May 2013 10:05 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Teenage witch Sabrina Spellman can solve almost any problem with good, old-fashioned pluck and a wave of her magic pointer finger… but she can’t make millions of dollars appear out of thin air.
On Monday, Melissa Joan Hart — the ’90s star best known for playing both Sabrina and sassy Clarissa Darling on two eponymous sitcoms — officially ended her attempt to fund a movie called Darci’s Walk of Shame via Kickstarter. Hart wanted to raise $2 million over the course of about a month; by the end of the campaign, she had rustled up only $51,605 from 315 backers.
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- Hillary Busis
15 May 2013 9:45 AM, PDT | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
Got a scoop request? An anonymous tip you’re dying to share? Send any/all of the above to askausiello@tvline.com
Question: Do you have any spoilers for Law & Order: Svu? There’s loads of rumors going around that Olivia might die in the finale. —Kayley
Ausiello: Ok, so… apparently Mariska Hargitay has not yet inked a deal to return next season, despite my earlier assertion to the contrary. (In my defense, this is the only time I’ve ever been wrong about anything ever in the history of everything.) So, that little development, coupled with Kelli Giddish’s »
- Michael Ausiello
15 May 2013 9:19 AM, PDT | ShadowAndAct | See recent ShadowAndAct news »
Not every *celebrity* Kickstarter campaign has been a success. We only hear about the high-flyers. But what about those that fail? It may or may not be a surprise to some of you that there are indeed those that don't quite make the cut. And in some cases - one specific case, anyway - failed miserably! I guess that's the risk *celebs* take when they opt to go the crowdfunding route. It's like a measure of your popularity, or how much you fans are invested (not monetarily) in you and your vision. With the immense successes of campaigns for a Veronica Mars movie as well as Zach Braff's indie drama, we've learned that Kickstarter can be an excellent way for folks at their level to fund their »
- Tambay A. Obenson
15 May 2013 8:52 AM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Kickstarter has been a hot topic lately. The creator of Veronica Mars used it to raise more than $4 million to fund a movie version of the show. Zach Braff has raised more than $2 million to fund his next directorial effort (following Garden State). There has been heated debate about whether or not people with established relationships in Hollywood (Warner Bros. will be releasing the Mars movie) or significant wealth (Braff reportedly made $350,000 per episode during the final season of Scrubs) using Kickstarter aligns with the original intentions of the crowdfunding site.
Now, filmmakers with years of experience in horror are using Kickstarter in an effort to fund a new sci-fi/horror feature. You may not know their names, but you definitely know their work. Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr. operate Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc. They have created practical animatronic and makeup effects for Tremors, Wolf, Starship Troopers, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, »
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