Comedy Website to Produce Parody Movie About Late Apple Head

Actor Justin Long, well known for starring in several films as well as "Get a Mac" commercials, will be playing Steve Jobs in an upcoming parody movie from comedy website Funny or Die.

The website is creating a 60 - 75 minute movie named iSteve, which will be released online on April 15. Director Ryan Perez told the New York Times in an interview that the movie will not be based off extensive research and is meant to be very silly while looking at his whole life. Long has had a substantial relationship with Apple as he starred in the Mac-versus-PC TV ads for several years up until the end of the campaign in 2010.

This is not the first film about Jobs and his life. Jobs is an upcomming independent film starring actor Ashton Kutcher, with the release date being delayed, and Sony Pictures is also working on an adaptation of Walter Isaacson's authorized biography on Jobs. Funny or Die has featured several parody movies about Jobs, including one envisioning if Hollywood made a Jason Statham-style action movie about Jobs' life.

'Veronica Mars' Kickstarter Achieves Massive Fundraising

Fans of the TV show Veronica Mars will be happy to know that the Kickstarter project to bring the show to the big screen as a feature film has become the fastest project to reach the $1 million mark.

The project beats out others such as Pebble watch and the OUYA console along with the role-playing game Torment. Veronica Mars only took a little over four hours to reach $1 million, which is quite impressive for a show that never had that good of ratings and is only available to watch on TheWB.com. The show itself fits perfectly as a Kickstarter campaign, as the show has a cult following that was clearly more than willing to donate money and spread the word of this opportunity. This has obviously been made much easier thanks to Twitter and Facebook, where as before fans of the show relied on discussion forums and fan sites to raise money.

It has been confirmed that the project reached the $2 million goal in under ten hours, with fans still donating money by the minute.

Blade Runner Director Teaming Up With Machinima

Director Ridley Scott, known for hit films Blade Runner and Alien, is teaming up with video entertainment network Machinima to produce 12 science fiction short films.

Scott will not direct these shorts himself; instead he and Machinima will choose directors from RSA, Scott's production company, including Martin Scorsese, Sam Mendes, Kathryn Bigelow and Neill Blomkamp. The planned outcome of this collaboration is for some of these short films to eventually lead to a new franchise. Scott believes that Machinima is a great partner to collaborate on this "new model of delivering original content to fans" as well as pushing the creative boundaries for both filmmakers and audiences.

After the success with the webseries Mortal Kombat Legacy, which is spawning a second season as well as a feature film based off of it, it will be interesting to see what these short films will feature and how they will be received by viewers.