Tag Archives: Fandom

Batman: Ashes To Ashes French Fan Film Is DOA

June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Horror Movies, News, Review, Superheroes, Writing,

The new French fan film, Batman: Ashes To Ashes, is tearing up the internet and going viral. The popularity of this film is just as incomprehensible as the movie itself, and believe me, this flick makes no sense at all.

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JUNE CONTEST: Win RiP: A Remix Manifesto On DVD!

June 5th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Contest, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Review, Software, TV, Uncategorized, Writing

Tarantino and Peckinpah aren’t “Outlaw Filmmakers;” the people who make fan films, now those are outlaws, riding hell-for-leather all over copyright and intellectual property law! You know Quentin never risked going to jail to make a movie, but fan filmmakers have no choice but to go rogue if they want to practice their art. Of [...]

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Star Wars, Animorphs, Wolverine and Green Lantern: Fan Cinema Today’s Tweets of the Last Three Weeks

June 5th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Software, Star Wars, Superheroes, TV, Video Games, Watchmen, Writing, , marvel comics, science fiction,

If you follow the Fan Cinema Today Twitter feed, you already know that you get extra stories that don’t appear on the blog; everyone else is missing out on that extra fan film awesomeness. On the other hand, I hate to see a good thing go to waste, so here’s some Tweets of the last [...]

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Spider-Man and Harley Quinn Under The Influence

June 4th, 2009 | Posted in Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, News, Spider-Man, Superheroes, , marvel comics

Kansas City-based Influence Films is cranking out the fan films big time, having shot an unnamed Spider-Man fan film over Memorial Day weekend.

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5 Free Online Screenwriting Programs

June 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Software, Writing

I owe both my books (the illustrious Homemade Hollywood and Crank It Up) to the fact that I won Script Magazine‘s screenwriting contest a few years ago. After the winners were announced, I was contacted by a few Hollwyood agents who wanted to read the screenplay, and the unanimous reaction was “Looove it—when you moving [...]

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Casting Call for Twilight Music Video Fan Films

June 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Vidding, Writing, twilight

Twilight tribute band The Bella Cullen Project is shooting two music videos for its songs “Safety First” and “Let It Go”—and it needs extras to be in ‘em.

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Top 10 Fan Cinema Today Fan Film Stories: May, 2009

June 1st, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, James Cawley, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superheroes, TV, Writing, , marvel comics, science fiction,

May was a busy month around here! Here’s Fan Cinema Today’s 10 most popular stories of last month, presented in chronological order. May 3: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM Fan Film Released Online! The long-awaited fan film based on J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is now online. The flick is based on appendices to [...]

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4 Places to Transfer Your Old Films to Video

May 29th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Mainstream Media, News, TV,

Get your old Super 8, 8mm and 16mm movies transferred before you can only wish that you had. Here’s four places to get them transferred; some are cheap, others are expensive (relatively speaking), but as they say, you can’t put a price on a memory.

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80-Minute Spider-Man Fan Film, Peter’s Web, Debuts

May 28th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Comic Books, Dan Poole, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Spider-Man, Superheroes, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing, marvel comics, science fiction

Peter’s Web, a series of full-length Spider-Man fan films, released its first episode on the web this week. Initially covered on FCT last fall, the 80-minute debut is subtitled “Issue 1: Becoming The Spider,” and follows the classic origin story before segueing into the famous “Death of Gwen Stacy” storyline. A passion project for Roger [...]

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5 Must-See Hellraiser Fan Films

May 27th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Halloween, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Publishing, Review, Writing, , science fiction

Hellraiser has a legion of followers, as proven by the multitude of fan films out there. Here’s just five fan film-related selections worth checking out.

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HOMEMADE HOLLYWOOD!

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the first book about fan films, was written by the editor of this blog. If you like Fan Cinema Today, you'll LOVE the book!

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