‘Arrested Development’ Documentary Seeks Finishing Funds On Kickstarter

COMMENTS (15)

• Party Down, Firefly, Enlightened, and more! It’s an exciting time to have a cult show that was cancelled in one’s back pocket.

  Comment by Coming soon — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:31pm PDT  Reply to this post

• There’s something extremely wrong with Fox charging $20k for still photos that effectively will be promotion for the series. Maybe these guys can find it in the banana stand.

  Comment by Tom Strong — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:42pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • There’s always money in the banana stand

    Comment by cx — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 1:45am PDT  Reply to this post

• pathetic…the stars are rich…their fans are suckers if they pay

  Comment by johncarter — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:45pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s a great sign when the first two words of the trailer are the directors’ names.

  Comment by Anon — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• all the actors in Arrested Development are RICH 1%’ers and they can’t raise 20K between them??? they have to mooch from the poor Public? I tell ya, some of these Hollywood actors are cheap cheap cheap

  Comment by Heather Gillroy — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t get kickstarter. Why would I fund (and take all the risk) a project with no shot at an upside? People need to raise money the old fashioned way. Kickstarter is the online hipster version of panhandling.

  Comment by n — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 9:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • This has been said elsewhere and far better, but a LOT of people don’t give their money to a Kickstarter project because they care at all about being hip, or even about the project being made or not. Most Kickstarter projects are just giant pre-sales. You want to help us make a movie? Here, have this T-Shirt and DVD you’d normally pay $40 for anyway, AND we get to use most of that money towards our own production costs.

    Comment by Kerry — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 8:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, it’s pathetic when big money celebs put their hand out on Kickstarter. Really slimy. Kickstarter should be for people who really need the dough, not these folks.

  Comment by biff — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 9:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m hoping this Kickstarter just gets Fox and The Arrested Execs to make a phone call and say.. just give these guys the rights to the stupid stills… or even better. Trade licensing of the stills for use of their interviews in extra content for a future box set. That seems fair and worthwhile… With Blueray Sizes today, they could probably take that whole documentary and make it available to people who buy the box set. Lots of win-wins…

  Comment by comersuerte — Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 10:54pm PDT  Reply to this post

• these are not “big money celebs”. they self-funded this documentary and are first-time filmmakers.

  i agree, tom strong. the kickstarter acts as free advertising and promotion for the documentary so if Fox has any decency they will call it a wash and hand over the rights.

  Comment by thedude — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 12:15am PDT  Reply to this post

• If you spend a dime on any of this you’re just an idiot…

  There is plenty of cash at the top for these projects to get made.

  Unless fans are getting royalties as “producers” this shit needs to end quick.

  Comment by Don't Be a Moron — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 10:07am PDT  Reply to this post

  • So there’s never been an independent project that’s failed because it didn’t have enough money?

    If they’re throwing in promo products/rewards roughly equal to what people are pledging, and it’s not a ‘donation’, why exactly is this bad?

    Comment by Really? — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 2:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Kickstarter was for indie films to raise money but now all these cult shows are taking over

  Comment by Lorena — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 2:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I don’t think these guys have anything to do with the show and it seems like they’ve been at it for a long time. It’s not really fair to blame FOX, the actors, or anybody else affiliated with the show on the fact that these guys need cash to get their project out. It seems like the perfect fit for Kickstarter and at the end of the day there’s a cool doc. for us fans and FOX gets a big fat ad for their product.

  Comment by Billy — Thursday March 21, 2013 @ 8:28pm PDT  Reply to this post