Yesterday, Don Cheadle's crowdfunding campaign for a Miles Davis biopic (called Miles Ahead) closed and was successfully funded with $343,496. He is one of quite a few Hollywood celebrities that have gone to the crowd to raise funds for a project. Spike Lee and Zack Braff are in that number as well. Both of them hosted successful campaigns. However, there are several celebrities that had unsuccessful campaigns like Melissa Joan Hart and James Franco. Most of the campaigns are film-related in nature. There has been much concern from the public as to why these celebrities would even think to go to the crowd for funding. Some have even gone as far as to say that it is downright criminal. We don't believe this is completely true. Crowdfunding at the heart of it is a concept that has been around for many years. The civil rights' movement was essentially crowdfunded. The idea is that everyone rallies together for a particular cause and contributes as much as they can to support
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