Category Archives: Indiana Jones

Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Comes Home Saturday

A one-night-only public screening of the South Mississippi–shot fan-film phenomenon, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, will be held June 27 at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education in Ocean Springs. MS.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Stop-Motion Animation Secrets of Star Wars Tales

In December, FCT covered Danny Moiser’s extensive fan film, Star Wars Tales, a stop-motion animated action figure flick that spins a slew of new short stories that take place in the Star Wars Universe. Mosier spent three years animating the flick, which makes him either extremely dedicated or utterly insane (or both). Speaking with FCT, [...]

Swing into Indiana Jones and the Staff of Ra

There are characters that people never tire of—James Bond…Batman…Winnie the Pooh. You can definitely include Indiana Jones on that list. We’ve covered a ton of indie Indy flicks on Fan Cinema Today, from the famous Mississippi trio that made a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark throughout the 1980s (which I wrote about [...]

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 [...]

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation To Get UK Premiere In London

Slashfilm created a buzz this afternoon with a story that Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation was given a theatrical rating to be shown in the UK, leading to the idea that it will get a widespread theatrical release there. Turns out that’s not entirely true, but at the least, the famous fan film [...]

New Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation Screenings!

If you love fan films or Indiana Jones, you have not lived until you’ve seen Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation—the legendary fan film made by three teens over the course of seven years. From start to end, they recreate just about everything from the original, from the truck chase to the boulder to [...]

Whole Lotta Lunds Make Indiana John & The Silver Platter

A while back, I wrote about Little Indiana Jones, which presented a pint-sized view of George Lucas and Steven Speilberg’s famed archeologist. It turns out that’s not the only kid-centric Indy flick out there—check out Indiana John and the Silver Platter, made by the Lund Family (and there’s a lot of Lunds—seven NINE kids!). Director [...]

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