Renewals,  Revivals,  &  Redistrubtion

How the Crowdfunded ‘Veronica Mars’ Kickstarter Campaign Paves the Way for Others

By Scott Richardson

Crowdfunding -  Kickstarter vs. Indiegogo -  Kickstarter’s “All or nothing” policy

-  Increases chances you get all

-  Reward-based -  Creators -  Backers

Renewals -  Chuck

-  Subway, “Save Chuck”

-  Jericho -  40,000 peanuts

-  Star Trek, Roswell, Reaper

Revivals -  Family Guy (Resurrection)

-  Animated shows can do this

-  Futurama (new channel) -  Same medium

Redistribution -  Twin Peaks

-  Fire Walk with me

-  Serenity -  Based on Firefly

-  Arrested Development -  Netflix, new format

Veronica  Mars   -  Record breaking funding -  Unorthodox release

-  tandem

-  “Poster Child” -  Warner Brothers -  What It Inspired

-  Wish I Was Here

Future -  Inocente

-  First crowdfunded Oscar film

-  Portlandia spoof -  Sundance

-  10 percent

-  BlueRun Media -  First full crowdfunding services firm for the film industry

-  Veronica Mars could dictate future -  Financial outcome is something to look out for