Colin Hanks' Tower Records Documentary Nabs $50,000 on Kickstarter
Less than a week after announcing work on All Things Must Pass -- a splendid-sounding documentary about meteoric rise and precipitous fall of the Tower Records empire -- actor/producer Colin Hanks confirmed today that he and his partners had fulfilled their $50,000 fundraising goal via the crowdsourcing hotspot Kickstarter.
Hanks and producing pal Sean Stuart passed the good news along today via Twitter: "In 5 Days, 2 Hours we reached our Fundraising Goal!!!" That doesn't necessarily get them any closer to completing the film, however: According to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal, Tower founder Russ Solomon has two storage units packed with company artifacts that the filmmakers have yet to browse, and more interviews remain to be shot. ""We don't really know how long it will take," Hanks told the paper's Bankruptcy Beat blog (Tower was liquidated after going under in 2006). "We'll just sort of make the movie as we make the movie."
Anyway, FYI! This is really happening.
[Via @TowerRecordsDoc]
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The real story here is that Tom Hanks son had the balls to ask people to give him money on a grassroots fundraising site. Didn't daddy kick in $8 mil to produce "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"? What's another $50k to your own son. Douchebag x1000
Congratulations for Colin Hanks!
I think it's cool he chose to do it without his daddy. We're San Francisco bohemian filmmakers making our dream come true, too.
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