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>> he needs money? >> well, he needs money to have a film that has an independent style to it. >> well, it is a quarter of a million now, and how much more from kick starter? >> well, he is at $311,000 and he has 23 days left to make this mon money. if he doesn't all of the money that has been pledged so far goes back to the donors. >> interesting so it has to be a real communal push to do it. >> yes, and he has had some support from hollywood, and steven soederberg who donated $10,000 which will get a donor courtside seats with spike to a knicks' game, and also dinner with him, so he has a da...

>> let's play what he said. here it is. >> i'm not going the say that i do it, but i hope that the first thing that it should be a documentary before they do a narrative of it for me. i think that first way to examine it is through a documenta documentary. >> and any hesitation there or a commitment on his behalf? >> well, i think that spike knows how to do great documentari documentaries, and he did one on the million man march and on michael jackson and i asked him about a huge film out right now getting oscar buzz, but it is about oscar grant who was gunned down in san francisco and the sto...

Survived. >> the next spike lee joint may not make it to a theater without help from you. >> it is to get the film made and it is not necessarily a hollywood film, but an independent film. >> and the legendary filmmaker is using kick starter now to raise funding for the new untitled movie. the website raises money for albums or movies or performance art, and it helped to bring the cult hit "veronica mars" back to life after the cw pulled the plug on it after three seasons. so joining us is chris from thegrio.com who interviewed pike on this latest project. hey to you. >> hey. >> glad to have y...

Of money. >> we've taken this about as far as we can with our own resources and just like the people that we feature in the film, we're now reaching out to you. >> they raised the all or nothing $85,000. >> when you hit the live button on kick starter, you are then opening every bit of social kind of value inequity that you're putting on the line. >> it made a lot of sense to raise money for crowd funding. >> we're now at $71,450 and we've got 15 hours left to go. rick: entrepreneurs maze the money from the public, not a bank. >> you're bringing people deeper in the experience. >> last year in...

One of millions of people trying to get to that money, like on kick starter, but it's possible. you just have to do something exciting to kind of bubble up to the -- >> you have to have a great idea, no question. >> the answer to the question is here to say and only going to get bigger. >> finally, a question about franchising your brand. >> what's the best step to start to franchise your company as a service company? >> i think the first step is to say, is this even what i want to do, right? >> definitely. and is it something scaleable. if you start franchising a company, you want to think of...