{"id":22789,"date":"2013-07-25T15:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22789"},"modified":"2013-07-25T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T19:42:52","slug":"spike-lee-launches-kickstarter-campaign-to-finance-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22789","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Finance New Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Following in the footsteps of <em>\u201cVeronica Mars\u201d<\/em> and <b>Zach Braff<\/b>, <b>Spike Lee<\/b> has launched an online campaign to help fund his next feature film.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn filmmaker on Monday unveiled his bid to raise $1.25 million over the next month using the fundraising site Kickstarter. <b>Lee<\/b> offered few details on the film, but said it would be about \u201cthe addiction of blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Lee <\/b>said it\u2019s difficult for independent filmmakers and the only way to insure your vision gets on screen \u201cis when you bring the money to the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contribution levels range up to $10,000, which earns a trip with <b>Lee <\/b>to a New York Knicks game in his courtside seats.<\/p>\n<p>His<em> \u201cOldboy,\u201d<\/em> a remake of the 2003 South Korean thriller, is to be released in October.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Following in the footsteps of \u201cVeronica Mars\u201d and Zach Braff, Spike Lee has launched an online campaign to help fund his next feature film. The Brooklyn filmmaker on Monday unveiled his bid to raise $1.25 million over the next month using the fundraising site Kickstarter. Lee offered few details on the film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}