It’s every fan filmmaker’s dream these days—make a flick that’s got that extra spark, that certain something that makes it blow up, going from a little video shared with your friends, to the next multi-million-view hit on YouTube. How do you get there? Well, a lot of friends and some software to game the page [...]
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The popular The Dark Knight Project fan film keeps on keepin’ on. Regular FCT readers may recall the flick as the one shot on the same Chicago streets that appeared in the feature films as parts of Gotham. As a result, the flick has the look cold, aided by sweet props like a Gotham City [...]
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Mike O’Hearn, who I’ve written about a few times, appears as “Titan” on NBC’s American Gladiators, but fan film fans know him as Superman from Sandy Collora’s World’s Finest faux trailer fan film from 2004. Now Slashfilm has reported that O’Hearn is in the running for big-screen reboots of Conan The Barbarian and Captain America. [...]
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Everyone has a talent in this life, even the people you can’t stand (they have a knack for pissing you off, after all). Movie fan Bob Dullam’s special talent, on the other hand, is to make your jaw drop, and if you don’t believe it, consider this: He built that Dark Knight Batmobile (AKA The [...]
Lots of fan films say they’ve been “long awaited,” but this one means it: The Italian video game tribute, Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy, has been in the works since 2002. The team behind the effort had promised this summer would finally see the release of the first installment in a planned trilogy; with one major [...]
This is one of those ‘you gotta see it to believe it’ situations. The German Star Wars fan film, Tydirium, has been in on-again / off-again production for years, keeping such a low profile that most fan film fans thought the project had been abandoned. Nope—instead, the filmmakers were building a massive set: the interior [...]
American mass-entertainment has a stranglehold on fan films. I mean, amateur tribute flicks are made all over the world, as noted just the other day when I wrote about the Australian fan flick Suburban Knights, but generally, if a franchise is getting a homemade rendition from a fan, odds are that it’s an American franchise…unless [...]
A few weeks ago, I mentioned The Hunt For Gollum, a slick, 30-minute Lord of the Rings fan film that’s being shot in the U.K. The folks behind it have been working away on the project for ages, and now the end is in sight; the film will hit the internet in December, 2008, and [...]
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My book about fan films doesn’t come out until September, but the “Advance Reader Copies” of Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera went out last week to critics and writers in mainstream media around the country. I’ve been working on it on and off for 10 years, and the other day, my ARC arrived in [...]
In the wake of San Diego Comic Con, I put FCT on a week-long moratorium when it came to anything related to Star Wars, The Dark Knight or the SDCC; needed to cleanse the palate a bit, ’cause eating too much hype ain’t good for you. Now we’re going to re-introduce those topics to our [...]
