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TFA does not have a link to the Kickstarter project page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m...

Currently at $2,335,670 with 37,676 backers and 29 days to go.

There are some really creative and interesting rewards for higher contributions. Personalized video message from the cast, personalized video message from Kristen Bell (much more expensive, obviously!), voicemail recordings, name a character after someone, have a local theatre rented out for a private showing possibly before the screenings, after-party tickets, be an extra, or even have a speaking role.

I presume that ultimate reward means this movie is outside the purview of SAG-AFTRA, as any speaking roles in SAG productions absolutely, positively must be performed by SAG guild members. This is going to be an official Warner Brothers product, and I wasn't aware WB was not fully in bed with SAG-AFTRA.

EDIT: What's up with Bell? She doesn't seem to understand the concept of Capital Letters aNd WHerE thEy bELONG In A Sentence. Or she's just being coy.

> What's up with Bell? She doesn't seem to understand the concept of Capital Letters aNd WHerE thEy bELONG In A Sentence. Or she's just being coy.

Good question, actually. The only actual weird capitalization she used, "LoVe to you ALL", is actually an in-joke-- "LoVe" refers to Logan/Veronica shipping[0] in Veronica Mars fandom. She's maybe hinting at a possible romantic plot to the movie, maybe just playing around.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_(fandom)

Can't they Taft-Hartley the speaking roles (paying a fine for using non-SAG performers, as is routinely done with commercials)?

When I saw the $10k thing I was wondering if it included a SAG background performer voucher.

Why? They can just join SAG.

"All new members pay a one-time-only initiation fee, plus the first semiannual dues at the time of joining. The national initiation fee rate is currently $3000.00 (initiation fees may be lower in some states). Annual Base dues are $198.00. In addition, work dues are calculated at 1.575 percent of covered earnings up to $500,000."

The Kickstarter page notes that some rewards require additional paperwork (presumably including becoming a member of SAG for the speaking role). Since only one (1) person claimed that reward, it seems reasonable that they could get them into SAG.

Also, Bell may have just made a typo re: capital letters. If you are expecting perfect grammer from the internet, you'll cry yourself to sleep every night.

What I wonder about is if there are any SAG rules about paying for a role. Charging an audition fee is strictly verboten, for example.

You just make the person a producer. I'msure something like this will result in a court fight, but SAG are going to look stupid trying to explain why they should be able to stop a picture being made in defiance of a willing cast and a prepaid audience.

any speaking roles in SAG productions absolutely, positively must be performed by SAG guild members

Under Taft-Hartley rules they can't exclude other people from participating as long as they join up.

I wonder if the posters are going to be individually signed, or printed that way.

7,000 signatures is a lot of signatures. The cast will probably be spending every free moment writing their names.

I was thinking the same thing - at five seconds per signature, you're looking at nearly 10 hours solid work per cast member that foolishly agrees.

Make that 8 seconds per signature and they'll be working on it for 16 hours or 2 full working days. At $1.3 million per day I find that reasonable.

I think you're over-estimating the time required. I've signed 1,000 art prints in less than an hour. You just need a system.

1000 prints in an hour is about 3.5 seconds per signature, not too far off my mark, and I imagine you'd need to take more fatigue breaks if you had to sign seven times as many prints.

probably they will probably make stamps to stamp their names on posters :D

The speaking role only ships to the US? Bah!

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