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David Fincher turns to Kickstarter for next project ‘The Goon.’

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Two-time Oscar-nominated director David Fincher [The Social Network, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button] has turned to Kickstarter to help get his next film off the ground. Fincher has been working with visual effects house Blur Studio, who also created the title sequence for Fincher’s Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, to develop comic book adaption The Goon. But after becoming frustrated with their search for backing, Fincher and team have decided to take to the crowd funding website to ask for money to develop their animated take on the film. They’re not asking for the millions it would take to fund the whole project, but they are asking for $400,000 to develop what animators call a “story reel” to help sell the feature film. (A story reel is essentially a storyboard in motion...
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Article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...r_to_sell_animated_comic_book_adaptation.html

Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/624061548/the-goon-movie-lets-kickstart-this-sucker
 
Makes me worry about the current film industry... when Fincher who you think makes millions upon millions for his film is digging around for cash....

So you ask yourself... is he making money at all ? who does ? Is he just pullling some directors fee and thats it, does he have any ownership in his work,?... does he invest in his own content... is he just another struggling movie director...

Serious questions for the modern film making times.

I have mate about to start his eighth film and still drives around a 74 Toyota corolla... and his last film made 122 million.? Someones make a packet, and it aint the film maker.
 
Mark Toia said:
Makes me worry about the current film industry... when Fincher who you think makes millions upon millions for his film is digging around for cash....

So you ask yourself... is he making money at all ? who does ? Is he just pullling some directors fee and thats it, does he have any ownership in his work,?... does he invest in his own content... is he just another struggling movie director...

Serious questions for the modern film making times.

I have mate about to start his eighth film and still drives around a 74 Toyota corolla... and his last film made 122 million.? Someones make a packet, and it aint the film maker.
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It could be that Fincher takes to heart the oft-offered advice from the rich to "use other people's money to make money." To me, that's what makes Hitchcock (used his own money to make Psycho) and F F Coppola (heavy personal investment in Apocalypse Now) gceat. They risked everything to go with their gut.
 
I think there are people at all levels of filmmaking who are curious about how far Kickstarter campaigns can be taken. What has been a grassroots fund-raising format is becoming a referendum on the power of celebrity, ever since Neil Gaiman, who probably doesn't need to fish around the furniture for loose change either, took his project to the people.
 
Mark Toia said:
Serious questions for the modern film making times.

I have mate about to start his eighth film and still drives around a 74 Toyota corolla... and his last film made 122 million.? Someones make a packet, and it aint the film maker.
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Maybe your friend isn't into all the hype of expensive cars. I would assume he is making money. If not, he should hire a new entertainment lawyer and ask for points; if this is his eighth film.

Just maybe his 74 Toyota Corona is pretty awesome. Probably great on gas.
 
hehehehheee... it probably is good on gas. But the fact is, he is getting raped by the studios... most people are.
Seems like the people that do the least amount of work on the films seem to be making the most...

He's doing ok, but sadly this is what happens when you do not invest in your own films and use other peoples money to pay for them. you just become a very small percentage, irrespective if the film is idea.
 
Gary Ploj said:
...Toyota Corona is pretty awesome. Probably great on gas.
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This is a great idea! A merger between Toyota and Corona! Beer helmet in every car and using beer farts to make them great on gas!

'-)
 
What needs to be understood about Hollywood, is that no matter whom you are, be it some one like me, with a Dream a Passionate Story to tell, but a First Time Director/+/+ or some one like David, multi Oscar winner, nothing changes that if you have a project at hearth the only way for you to make your own movie is by doing so outside the Studios, at list till is off the ground and be able this way to do the Movie you want not that of which the Studios will force you to do with their money, this is why I also recently posted to evaluate the possibility of thanking my first movie via Kickstarter... Even so at the end I decided against it.

But fact is that times are changing, bring ever new ways to move along and go about anything you could have done, or better, not done a decade or two ago.

Now, on a separate note, the fact that He is only looking for 400k worries me, as some one i his position I sure would have hoped to have a but more then that to invest in any project to which I cared for.
 
KETCH ROSSi said:
Now, on a separate note, the fact that He is only looking for 400k worries me, as some one i his position I sure would have hoped to have a but more then that to invest in any project to which I cared for.
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True, I Think it's one of these "Produced by" like Quentin Terentino did. Kind of name lending. Might be the efx house that want to animate a feature so they ask if the can ride on Finchers name but they finance it themself and Fincher gets a cut if they make it and has last word on the film... Those things flies more often than you think.

This is just me speculating.

The col thing would be if if kickstarter actually works for big hollywood stuff... then the studios have to find a new map.. :)
 
Elijah Kelley said:
"Crowdinvesting"...what's that Brandon?
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It means people will be able to launch campaigns like on Kickstarter, but the people backing the project will be actual investors and receive a share of the profit. Also, anyone can be solicited for an investment not just accredited investors. I think the minimum investment is like $100. It starts in January 2013.
 
It worries me not because it implies Fincher isn't making much money (which is absolutely preposterous), but because he's dipping into funding that would normally go to "real" independent productions. I mean, how many people on kickstarter would invest in Joe Blow, regardless of how amazing his project is, when David Fincher is asking that same group of people for a couple of bucks as well? Not many. When Fincher gets to make the movie this way, he'll likely be keeping the rights and make a fortune off of those crowd funds.

I'd love to be wrong, but I get the feeling that when the big boys do stuff like this it's because they want to retain ownership, avoid the studio's buracreacy and cost, and ride that into retaining the majority of the profits, and not because they can't afford it or couldn't get funding privately. At least Kevin Smith used his own cash to make Red State (shot on RED no less.)
 
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I don't think this is just about the money. How many more people are finding out about The Goon because of this? Some people are just going to find out about this film through the project, but I'm sure fans will be created along the way, people that dive into the comics that were previously unfamiliar with it. Any backers on these projects are spreading the word, as they now have a personal monetary connection with the film. It seems to be more of a social media marketing move to me.
 
Brandon J.F. said:
It means people will be able to launch campaigns like on Kickstarter, but the people backing the project will be actual investors and receive a share of the profit. Also, anyone can be solicited for an investment not just accredited investors. I think the minimum investment is like $100. It starts in January 2013.
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Thanks Brandon
 
Mike P. said:
...he's dipping into funding that would normally go to "real" independent productions. I mean, how many people on kickstarter would invest in Joe Blow, regardless of how amazing his project is, when David Fincher is asking that same group of people for a couple of bucks as well? Not many.
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Actually, high profile projects like this help everyone because they bring new people to the site who will undoubtedly end up backing other smaller projects. Rather than eating all the pie projects like this make the pie bigger and everyone ends up with more.
 
Guys.

The campaign isn't about finding money. It's about advertising the movie well before it's made. A kickstarter for a david fincher comic book adaptation goes right to the heart of his audience... techie internet-aware folks who want to feel "invested" even before they make the damn thing...

what kind of audience loves a comic book movie populated by zombies, bog lurks, and skunk apes? the kickstarter kind. get them on the boat now to convince the suits there's a rabid following willing to pony up half a million to see more proof of concept footage. (and it will go past 400,000).

"We created "proof of concept" footage to show Hollywood the incredible potential of a Goon movie. It was very well received BUT because this movie isn't a sequel or filled with dancing animals we'll need more to bust open the gates and UNLEASH Goon and Franky on Hollywood."

the dancing animals bit gives it away: execs are afraid of anything that doesn't have a guaranteed appeal. 400,000 doesn't take you very far, but a kickstarter page, a big facebook group and internet buzz made up of ten thousand or so people = perceived audience = studio greenlight with a higher budget.

at this stage, it's about bodies, not dollars :)

also, if fincher poured in 400 stacks, and the project was greenlit for a pittance budget, or the film tanks, he's got egg on his face, an expensive stain in his town. you might say a kickstarter campaign is too, but in today's world, I'd say it makes him damn good at early advertising...
 
The Goon has been something that Blur and Eric Powell have been trying to get to the big screen for sometime. The concept behind this particular kickstarter campaign is to raise funds to produce a compelling story reel fleshed out with voice talent to shop around; not fund the entire production. With Fincher behind the project now and Blur's quality of work I think there's real potential to make this animated feature happen.
 
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