Always wanted to be in showbiz? Well, now you, too, can be The Powers That Be! Sorta.
Dichen Lachman and Fran Kranz of Dollhouse are the stars of Lust for Love, a proposed film that is seeking backers via Kickstarter.com. If you haven’t heard of Kickstarter, it’s a place for anyone to put up a creative project and ask for funding. Some of the ideas are pretty cool, like this one, and some… aren’t (a faux Andrew Dice Clay? Umm, pass).
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I’m always looking at the business side of fandom, primarily how to get the product (series, movie, book, etc.) directly to fandom (viewers, readers, etc.) and to let the producers of such products know that fandom will pay for the product. Or how the talent can produce their own product and sell it directly to fandom.
Felicia Day is an amazing business woman in addition to her artistic creativity. When does she sleep? Does she even sleep? She’s taken The Guild from a small web-series done on a shoestring with funding by fan donations into a strong business model. She’s gone from burning season 1 DVDs on personal computers and handwriting hundreds of mailing labels to being the Warren Buffet of the Geek/Nerd world. Creative folk like Joss Whedon and Jane Espenson go to Felicia to learn how to sell their product as the major studios do, including keeping the creative rights ala 20th Century FOX. And she’s done this with constant respect for her fans.
Read MoreFelicia Day (Buffy, The Guild, Dollhouse, Dr Horrible) is a very business-savvy lady. When creating the The Guild, she kept ownership of the project, licensing the rights to companies to use the images (similar to what 20th Century FOX does with Buffy/Angel/Firefly).
Here’s her newest licensing project: the new Codex costume, available for Halloween
Read MoreTowards the end of the panel for The Guild at Comic-Con last Saturday, producer Kim Evey reflected on how quickly the web comedy series about a group of on-line gamers has grown in popularity:
"Felicia (Day) had a great script, and we knew it was about people who understood how to work the Internet machine. So, it seemed like a very logical step to bring it directly to the source. She had already been told by TV folk that it was too niche. Here we are, 2 1/2 years later, you guys are here…and they were wrong."
Read MoreSomewhere, there is at least one Guild fan who wonders how the show’s logo would look like it it were really Felicia Day, Vincent Caso (Bladezz), Jeff Lewis (Vork), Amy Okuda (Tink), Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo), and Robin Thorson (Clara) instead of their cartoon selves.
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