The Kickstarter campaign to fund a film of Veronica Mars reached $1m in four hours

"Look alive Veronica Mars fans, the Kickstarter project to bring the cult TV show to the big screen is already halfway towards its goal of $2 million.
This makes the Veronica Mars movie the fastest project ever to reach that $1 million juncture. The Pebble watch took about 27 hours to reach its first million (the project went on to take in more than $10 million), the OUYA console took a little over 8 hours. Earlier this month, role-playing game Torment reached the million dollar mark in just 7 hours.
How long did it take Veronica Mars? Just over four hours. Not bad for a TV show that never did better than #138 in the Nielsen ratings and that isn't available to watch on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime. (You can watch the show on TheWB.com and if you haven't ever seen it, you should.)
Veronica Mars is the perfect type of project for a Kickstarter campaign. The show had a cult following and fans that were more than willing to spend money to spread the word and get things done. In an era before Twitter or mainstream Facebook access, Mars fans congregated over discussion forums and fan sites to raise money to create awareness campaigns to keep the show on the air."

Source:  Mashable, 13th March 2013

Update - it's now at over $2.6m still with 29 days to go

10% of the films at Sundance in 2012 were funded through Kickstarter

"Let's begin with some numbers
In 2012 2,241,475 people pledged a total of $319,786,629 and successfully funded 18,109 projects
Backers pledged $606.76 per minute to projects in 2012
Of the 2.2 million people who backed a project in 2012 570,672 people backed two or more projects
50,047 people backed ten or more projects
452 people backed 100 or more projects
People in 177 countries backed a project in 2012
That's 90% of the countries in the world
Of Kickstarter's 13 creative categories Music had the most funded projects with 5,067
Games had the most money pledged at $83 million
Art, Film, Music, Publishing, and Theater each had more than 1,000 funded projects
17 projects raised $1 million+ in 2012
10% of the films at Sundance in 2012 are Kickstarter-funded
19 films selected; four win top prizes
63 Kickstarter-funded films open in theaters in 2012
(Total pledged $319,786,629 +221% from 2011
Total collected $274,391,721 +238% from 2011
Total backers 2,241,475 +134% from 2011
Pageviews 709 million +279% from 2011
Unique visitors 86 million +252% from 2011)"

Source:  Stats from Kickstarter, published 8th January 2013

Note - lots of great examples in the link