Monday Check In: Hulu, Franco on Veronica Mars

So there's no news on the Hulu deal yet– hopefully updates will be forthcoming when everyone has slipped out of their post-long weekend haze.

But speaking of alternative content distribution, there's a little baby rumor going around that ” target=”_blank”>funding a follow-up film. There was some controversy about this– the property is still owned by Warner Brothers, who didn't feel that a film was a worthwhile financial investment but will get a cut of its profits; Willa Paskin nicely sums up many of the early reactions ” target=”_blank”>here.) Obviously it's likely to be impossible to fund television shows via Kickstarter– the money required for, say, twelve 28 minutes episodes at a minimum is going to be significantly more than the $5 million Mars earned– but it's exciting to see old material getting new life, and fans being offered the opportunity to fund seeing more of their favorites.

I did donate to the Veronica Mars Kickstarter (though to be fair, this was before the national letdown that was Arrested Development season 4); my feeling is that I fund good art by seeing bad art all the time– that's how studios work, essentially, using blockbusters to pay for smaller stuff– and that I'd rather pay more for something I'm dying to see. I have a weakness for tough, tiny blondes (see: Buffy Summers) and cultural experiments that ask us to re-think how we fund the culture we like. Doesn't mean I'm shelling out for the