Campaign

Thanks to S A, the Chicago based black film review webseries, Reel Soul, has been a success. And if you don’t believe me, just ask co-creator and co-host Vaun Monroe. As he says, ”a modest webisode series called Reel Soul tested the waters with Shadow and Act’s viewership to see if two guys discussing Black film had an audience. The [...]

Continue Reading IndieGoGo Campaign For Black Film Review Web Series ‘Reel Soul"

Tags: Campaign, columbia college chicago, critc, cultural development group, harry lennix, IndieGoGo, shadow and act, Soul, video dept

Thanks to S A, the Chicago based black film review webseries, Reel Soul, has been a success. And if you don’t believe me, just ask co-creator and co-host Vaun Monroe. As he says, ”a modest webisode series called Reel Soul tested the waters with Shadow and Act’s viewership to see if two guys discussing Black film had an audience. The [...]

Continue Reading IndieGoGo Campaign For Black Film Review Web Series ‘Reel Soul"

Tags: Campaign, columbia college chicago, critc, cultural development group, harry lennix, IndieGoGo, shadow and act, Soul, video dept

The toughest stage in the production is now behind them (granted every stage presents its own set of challenges; but I think we can agree that raising necessary funds/financing is often the hurdle that most are never able to get over). The Kickstarter campaign they launched a month ago, officially ended today, October 9, with [...]

Continue Reading ‘The Couple’ The Movie Is Coming As Kickstarter Campaign Ends, Raising 30% More Than Goal

Tags: Campaign, campaign goal, depth interview, dortch, faison, Financing, Kickstarter, necessary funds, web series

As expected, The Bourne Legacy was No.1, with the political comedy, The Campaign, coming up in the second slot; while The Dark Knight Rises dropped to No.3. Also as expected, last week’s No. 1 film, the still unneccassary remake of Total Recall, which also underperformed last week, dropped big this weekend, by almost 70%. As for Beasts of [...]

Continue Reading Weekend B.O. Aug. 10-12 (‘Bourne’ Is On Top)

Tags: beasts, Bourne, bourne legacy, box office, Campaign, comedy, dark knight, political comedy, total recall

Despite some criticism of her use of the online crowd-funding website to raise funds for her Moms Mabley documentary (especially in light of what I referred to in a previous post as “Kickstarter Fatigue“), Whoopi Goldberg has reached her campaign goal; she actually surpassed it, raising over $73,000, when her goal was to raise $65,000. As she [...]

Continue Reading Whoopi Goldberg’s Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Moms Mabley Doc A Resounding Success!

Tags: book friends, Campaign, comedy world, documentary feature, film, Kickstarter, moms mabley, whoopi goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg has been talking about making a documentary feature on the life of pioneering comedian Moms Mabley for at least 2 years now, and it looks like she’s reached the tail-end of the production phase (I didn’t even know that she’d begun), interestingly taking to the web to raise funds to complete the film. Whoopi [...]

Continue Reading Whoopi Goldberg Sets Up Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Moms Mabley Doc (Some Questions…)

Tags: Campaign, comedy world, film, moms mabley, old photographs, production phase, project, wealthy friends, whoopi goldberg

New York based filmmaker Katherine Nero has started a Kickstarter campaign to begin raising funds for her political legal drama For The Cause, which she has been developing for years, and is now ready to begin production on.   The film deals with “Mirai Scott, a civil rights attorney, who is contacted by her father, [...]

Continue Reading Kickstarter Campaign For Katherine Nero’s Indie Feature "For The Cause"

Tags: black panther, Campaign, dangerous secrets, dream project, film, film deals, indie feature, Kickstarter, legal drama

So this reminds of that bruhaha I caused back in early January when I posted the trailer for the indie film Because I Love You. You remember that film? The one about a stipper who’s kidnapped, sexually assualted and held against her will by a gang of robbers until one of the thieves falls in love with [...]

Continue Reading Kickstarter Campaign For Feature Film "Key Of Brown" (Believe me I warned him…)

Tags: bruhaha, Campaign, christion, film the one, Kickstarter, notorious serial killer, stan adams, stipper, time