Category Archives: Eli Roth

Batman: Ashes To Ashes French Fan Film Is DOA

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.

Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Lands In London

In March, Fan Cinema Today broke the news that the famed fan film, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, was going to make its UK premiere in late April as a charity event in London. The gala evening has now come and gone, but fortunately, it was a massive hit. Three 12-year-old Mississippi kids [...]

Fan Films, Media Assassins, Sex Toys & Me—on the Radio!

Recently, I was a guest on NonFiction, a weekly news magazine on New York’s WBAI-FM. Host Harry Allen, the Media Assassin, knows a lot about fan films (he once wrote about them for the late, great Premiere magazine), so we had a blast talking about the Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation guys; various [...]

Homemade Hollywood FINALLY on Amazon!!!

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 [...]

Homemade Hollywood Arrives In Stores TODAY!

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 [...]

Raiders: The Adaptation Team Heads Up River

Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos are two of the three guys who famously spent seven years in the 1980s making a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. While it’s their biggest claim to fame so far, they’ve spent the last few years writing a new action adventure script, What The River Takes, that [...]

Ain’t It Cool News’ Anti-Fan Film Stance

“Moriarty” (AKA Drew McWeeny) has always been one of my favorite writers on Ain’t It Cool News (AICN), not merely because I tend to agree with his observations, but also because he tends to temper his reviews. On a site that never met an exclamation point it didn’t like (which is part of its charm), [...]

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation Fan Film To Play Mann’s Chinese In L.A. On Wednesday!

There’s good fan films and then there’s great fan films—and then there’s Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. The feature film-length flick, made on video in the 1980s by three Mississippi teenagers, is the stuff of legend (and rightfully so), and now it’s going to play at the Mecca of movies, Mann’s Chinese Theater [...]

Eli Roth and Chris Gore Featured in Upcoming Homemade Hollywood Fan Film Book!

Lots and lots going on with Homemade Hollywood recently; September saw some big things take place. First off, I got to interview director Eli Roth for the book, as he explained how he got the famed Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation fan film into Steven Spielberg’s hands. It’s a tale that’s never been [...]

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