The site posts synopses of potential movies with a budget of less than $2 million, then invites the public to donate toward the completion of whichever they'd like to see get made. With demonstrated interest from potential ticket buyers, he thinks traditional financing will become available for the rest once the site raises half the budget. Everyone who donates gets an executive producer credit, and those names will roll before anyone else's at the end of the movie.

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