I don't know if you knew this, but Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell are trying to get a VM movie made.
It's a wish fans often fave, there have been rumors about a
Friends movie for years but it never came.
Now Rob and Kristen tried a different approach: They made a deal with Warner Brothers. If they raise more than $2m on their own, WB will finance the marketing and distribution.
They used
Kickstarter for this and had the $2m marker within 11 hours!
Now they're at $4.7m.
I, too, backed the project. Some argue that
they are milking the fans but in the end it's no different to other fan activities (Have you looked at ticket prices for Star Trek conventions lately?).