Star of Pitch Perfect and Twilight, Anna Kendrick, is another name Zach Braff can add to the cast of his immensely successful Kickstarter project, Wish I was here. Braff's follow up feature to his 2004 indie hit, Garden State, has attracted a lot of attention since he released his first Kickstarter video. Inspired by the success of the Veronica Mars film that successfully raised over $4 million. And it didnt take long until the $2 million dollar mark was hit with Scrubs and Garden State fans backing their own hard earned cash in order to see Braff return to our screens. Yet the project hit the news when it was revealed that Worldview Entertainment backed the independently funded film with a healthy $8 million, pushing the total budget up to just over $10 million. CEO of Worldview Entertainment said at Cannes Film Festival this week: "Zach has proven again that he is a creative force in independent film, and we were immediately drawn to his powerful and unique story." With film-makers, some as acclaimed as Charlie Kaufman, using sites like Kickstarter in order to avoid more traditional funding, it could just start becoming a place for rich financial backers to poach the best new films.

Despite the controversy around Braff's new project, with a cast including Braff himself, Kendrick and Mandy Patinkin it surely will delight the fans that have generously backed it. Kendrick's popularity has grown since starting out as part of the supporting cast of the Twilight films and has managed to successfully leave the franchise behind her to accumulate a mass fan base through starring in the likes of Up in the Air alongside George Clooney, touching comedy 50/50 and winter hit, Pitch Perfect. Penned by Braff and his brother, Adam Braff, Wish I was here carries on the same themes as Garden State just a decade further down the line but don't be mistaken, it is not a sequel. Set to see Braff play a struggling actor/father, it surely will delight those who funded it as well as quench our first for more Braff after his nine year hiatus from directing.  

Before Peter Travis' 2012 comic adaptation Dredd, scripted by Alex Garland, the only Judge Dredd that had made its way onto the screen was Sylvester Stallone's awful 1995 Judge Dredd. Fans of the comic book will be happy with what they managed to pull off in Dredd. Unlike Stallone's film, it was gritty and violent, resembling closer to the comic books and don't worry, Rob Schneider is not in it, thank god. Despite Dredd getting applauds from the fans it failed to make a profit at the box office. Made on a budget of $45 million but only turning over $ 35.6 million at the box office. Not turning a profit that, sadly, would not warrant a sequel. But Dredd star, Karl Urban, has released some news that will excite Dredd fans. “Interestingly enough, I did have breakfast with Alex Garland this morning,” says Urban. “It’s not off the agenda. Clearly everyone has woken up to the fact that an audience has found this movie and loves it. It’s entirely possible, and if people want to see another instalment then they should be vocal about that, because it can happen. The power of fandom can resurrect projects. In fact, that’s what happened with Star Trek. They weren’t going to do a third season until fans did a letter writing campaign and they continued that series.” 

The Dredd sequel could copy the Veronica Mars film and Zach Braff's Wish I was Here and signed up to Kickstarter hoping their fans will be generous and donate funds. There are enough 2000AD fans out there to make this happen and the producers would really be missing out on a chance to revisit Dredd's universe.