Monthly Archives: April 2007

Gray Areas: Harry Potter Fan Films

April 5th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Harry Potter, Mainstream Media, Public Screening, Publishing, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars, Writing

For the past few years, the arrival of a new Harry Potter book has been met with the kind of celebration usually reserved for the Boston Red Sox when they win a World Series. Billions of pre-teens stampede into their local Barnes & Nobles to buy the inevitably massive tome at midnight…only to pass out [...]

Tagged in: Fan Film, fan films, Harry Potter, sirius black and the secret keeper, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars | 0 Comments

Analysis: Big Media Wants You

April 4th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Mainstream Media, Son of Rambow, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superheroes,

There’s the old cliché that if you chain a million monkeys to a million typewriters, eventually one of them is going to accidentally write Macbeth. Regardless of what Shakespeare’s ghost and PETA might think of this concept, the general idea applies well to the modern media age—not for the cliché’s original meaning, which was a [...]

Tagged in: Batman, Battlestar Galactica, big media, DC Comics, Fan Film, fan films, flicker, Google, macbeth, , Star Trek, Star Wars, Warner Brothers, | 0 Comments

Fan Film Review: HowItShouldHaveEnded.Com

April 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Batman, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Lord of the Rings, Review, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman

There are people who make a fan film, there’s a handful who make fan films, and then there’s the folks who just latch on to the idea of producing fan flicks like Homer Simpson cuddling a brand-new, baby beer. That’s a bit like HowItShouldHaveEnded.Com. A homemade animation studio of sorts, the HISHE crew is basically [...]

Tagged in: Batman, Fan Film, fan films, how it should have ended, Lord of the Rings, saving private ryan, Star Wars, Superman, the matrix, underworld, weird science | 2 Comments

News: Battlestar Galactica Fan Film Contest

April 1st, 2007 | Posted in Fan Film, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Sci-Fi Channel, Star Wars,

Back when I was a kid, I gotta say, I hated ABC’s Battlestar Galactica. Glen A. Larsen’s paean to the success of Star Wars the year before reeked of rip-off, from the Colonial Fighters (X-Wings) to Baltar (Grand Moff Tarkin) to the Cylons (Darth Vader/Stormtroopers) to Starbuck (Han Solo) to Apollo (Luke Skywalker) to Adama [...]

Tagged in: Battlestar Galactica, Contest, Fan Film, fan films, scifi channel | 0 Comments

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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Gray Areas: Harry Potter Fan Films

Analysis: Big Media Wants You

Fan Film Review: HowItShouldHaveEnded.Com

News: Battlestar Galactica Fan Film Contest

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