Category Archives: Comic Books

Spider-Man and Harley Quinn Under The Influence

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.

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

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Memorial Day Weekend Fan Films: Captain America

Shooting locations: South Ocean Beach, SF Naval Air Station, Alameda Pujo Latham: Director, cameraman, editor, Nick Fury function change_color(input, id) { var obj = document.getElementById(id); if (obj) { obj.style.backgroundColor = “#” + input.value; //alert (obj.style.backgroundColor + ” for ” + obj.id); }} .color_viewer { border:1px solid; width:70px; background-color:#ffffff; padding-left:10px; } var platform=’wordpress’; var rel_url = [...]

Memorial Day Weekend Fan Films: G.I. Joe

GI Joe: Battle For the Serpent Stone is a fan film that was banned by the movie studio behind this summer’s upcoming feature film, but mysteriously, it’s landed on YouTube.

Nightwing: Resurrected Fan Film Struggles To Take Flight

Nightwing—AKA The Superhero Formerly Known As Batman’s Sidekick, Robin—gets his own fan film with Nightwing: Resurrected.

The Hunt For Gollum Meets The Chip Kidd of Fan Films

In the book industry, you can tell if a publisher is really invested in making book a hit by a number of factors, but one of the most tell-tale signs is that it’ll spring to have Chip Kidd design the cover. In addition to his own novels and books, including co-producing the awesome Watching the [...]

Superhero Fan Film Contest Returns To Metropolis!

A mere 10 years ago, DC Comics famously shut down the first major Superman fan film on the internet, as recounted in Homemade Hollywood. These days, not only does DC approve of fan productions, so does the Metropolis Chamber of Commerce. Every year, the town of Metropolis, IL holds its famous Superman Celebration; part of [...]

NPR, Gollum, Star Wars Vs. Star Trek and Doctor Who: Fan Cinema Today’s Week in Tweets

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 Week. [...]

Unmasking Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey

I’ve talked with Sandy Collora—the director behind the legendary fan films Batman: Dead End and World’s Finest—on and off for a few years, and interviewed him extensively for Homemade Hollywood. However, it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that we finally got to meet, when he and Trey Stokes (Pink Five; Ark) were Special Guests [...]

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