Spike Lee apparently did the right thing. The oscar-nominated director has surpassed his Kickstarter goal by $40,000 this weeks. The campaign, which has surpassed a staggering $1,299,635 already, still has four days to go.
With $1.29 million in donations, it’s the third highest film in the crowdfunding site’s history, behind the “Vernonica Mars” feature film and Zach Braff’s followup to “Garden State.”
But Lee’s success also has galvanized critics outraged at the prospect of Hollywood millionaires soliciting money.
Lee defended the method of self-financing as a way to get good films made in an industry dominated by big studios.
“Indie Filmmakers are always in search of financing because their work, their vision sometimes does not coincide with Studio Pictures,” he wrote on his Kickstarter project page. “But I do put my own money in my films. I self-financed RED HOOK SUMMER. My fee for MALCOLM X was put back into the budget.
“The truth is I’ve been doing KICKSTARTER before there was KICKSTARTER, there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes. I’m now using TECHNOLOGY with what I’ve been doing.”
Not much is known about the untitled film, except that Lee bills it as, “Human beings who are addicted to Blood. Funny, Sexy and Bloody. A new kind of love story (and not a remake of ‘Blacula’).”
There is still four days go to, if you are feeling the project and are in the market for an authentic He Got Game basketball jersey.
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