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Braff tells THR that he turned to Kickstarter over financiers because, "When you’re trying to make these smaller personal art films, the idea of giving final cut away to someone else, it doesn’t make any sense for me." Zach Braff is hoping the internet will kickstart his writing/directing career back to life.

The "Veronica Mars" Kickstarter campaign to raise $2 million to bring the TV detective to the big screen easily passed its goal Wednesday evening, with more pledges still coming in. The project passed its goal without even being live for 24 hours of its planned 30-day run. "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas and star Kristen Bell said both were prepared to make the movie, and that Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the series, agreed to pay for marketing and distribution costs once the $2 million goal was reached.

More than 18,000 creative projects got off the ground last year by the grace of Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site once known merely as a launchpad for starving artists.

When game company Double Fine first went to Kickstarter, they were aiming high. They hoped to raise $400,000 to fund an upcoming adventure game. When their campaign concluded last night, they had raised 3.3 million, a Kickstarter record. Financing for indie games might never be the same again.