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2008: The Year in Fan Film News

December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Software, Son of Rambow, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Video Games, Writing, , marvel comics

Ah, the last post of 2008—and what a year it was for fan films. Fan Cinema Today has been bringing you all the news since it sputtered back to life in April, and there’s been plenty to write about. It was a year where fan films made tremendous strides forward in the public eye, with [...]

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Homemade Hollywood FINALLY on Amazon!!!

December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Attack of the Show, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Film Threat, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, TV, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing,

It’s taken forever, but my book about fan films, Homemade Hollywood, is finally on Amazon for real!! There was a place-holder page on there forever–well, NO MORE. The book is FINALLY available on Amazon—and it’s $13 and change, not $85 as noted elsewhere. What a freakin’ relief. For those who aren’t familiar with it, here’s [...]

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FCT Roadtrip Report: Five Towns College

November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Iron Fist, Mainstream Media, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Superheroes, Superman

Is a roadtrip a roadtrip if it’s only a 40-minute drive? On Election Day, I spoke about fan films as a guest speaker at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, NY. About a year ago, I sat in on the school’s “Comics To Film” course and interviewed its professor, Dan Galiardi, for Homemade Hollywood, so [...]

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FCT Roadtrip Report: Mass Bay Film Project

October 31st, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Continuum Books, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Video Games

Wednesday, I flew up to Gloucester, MA to run a night of fan films and discussion of the history of fan films, and it went pretty well. Rob Newton, head of the Mass Bay Film Project, hosted; the evening was part of his organization’s current ’60 Films in 33 Days’ festival, kicking off its current [...]

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WOO-HOO—IT’S A FAN CINEMA TODAY ROADTRIP! Fan Film Fest In Massachusetts!

October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Harry Potter, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, Writing

So you live in Eastern Massachusetts and you have a boring week ahead. Take this Wednesday, for instance: Nothing to do! The Red Sox didn’t make the World Series, so you won’t be watching the game. TV is dead on Wednesday nights, and you can’t go out drinking (OK, shouldn’t), ’cause you’ve got work the [...]

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Indiana Jones Parody Fan Film Hits DVD

October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark

Just last week, I wrote about UK-based Backyard Productions when I covered its documentary, Fan Films: What Are They All About? Now I’m writing about BYP again, this time because its 2002 parody of Indiana Jones movies, Doom Raiders, is coming to DVD on November 10. I don’t mean that they’re burning a few copies [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Arrives In Stores TODAY!

October 15th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Attack of the Show, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Film Threat, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, Writing,

Well, today’s October 15—the big day when Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera hits the shelves! A full 10 years after I first had the idea for this baby, it’s finally out of my head and into the real world. Here’s a goofy idea: If you see a copy of the book out in the [...]

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Indiana Jones: The Silent Serial Fan Film

October 9th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg

Over the Memorial Day weekend of 1977, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg hung out on a beach in Hawaii, making sand castles and holding an impromptu filmmaker support group of sorts. Lucas was certain his new Sci-Fi epic, which had just opened that weekend, was about to flop, but Spielberg assured him he’d be fine. [...]

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Little Batman Goes Indy

October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Indiana Jones, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes

Regular FCT readers may recall a fairly big-budget fan production I wrote about back in June, The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman. The flick launched last year on YouTube and has since become an online phenomenon, seen by more than 65,000 people. Now Jordan H. Wachtell, the fan film’s producer—not to mention the Dad of [...]

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The Gremlins Are Back and Taking Over Fan Films

August 25th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, TV

When I interviewed MIT’s Henry Jenkins for my upcoming fan film book, Homemade Hollywood, he made a comment that perfectly summed up what spurs so many people to create their own vision of a franchise with a fan film, explaining, “Fan-created production is borne out of a mixture of fascination and frustration…the idea that there’s [...]

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