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Boing Boing, The Mask and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Fan Cinema Today’s Week in Tweets

May 8th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Comic Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Publishing, Review, Star Trek, Star Wars, TV, Writing, , science fiction,

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. [...]

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6 Lord of the Rings Fan Films Besides Hunt For Gollum

May 4th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Writing,

Now that you’ve seen the epic fan film, The Hunt for Gollum, you’re wondering, “What other Tolkein fan films are out there?” Well, surprisingly, despite the worldwide popularity of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, there aren’t tons of related fan films out there. It’s not all a barren wasteland, however—here’s some LOTR fan films [...]

Tagged in: Almost There and Back Again, amateur, blog, Cool videos, Dork of the Rings, elrond, Entertainment, Fan Cinema Today, Fan Film, fan films, fancinematoday.com, Fandom, fanfilm, fanfilms, Film, Filmmaking, Films, Gollum, hobbit, home movies, Home Video, how it should have ended, hunt for gollum, J.R.R. Tolkein, littlest orc, lord, Lord of the Rings, Lords of the Rhymes, LOTR, movie, Moviemaking, movies, one ring, Peter Jackson, ring, rings, sons of elrond, Technology, there and back again, Tolkein, video, Video Camera, Video Cameras, Videocamera, Videocameras, Videos | 5 Comments

Star Wars, Orcs & Skateboards: Fan Cinema Today’s Week In Tweets

April 17th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Publishing, Star Wars, , friday the 13th, science fiction, stop motion animation,

If you follow the Fan Cinema Today Twitter feed, you 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. For [...]

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Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey Trailer Hits The Web!

April 7th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Pink Five, Public Screening, Publishing, Sandy Collora, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, Writing, , science fiction

It’s been a busy time for Sandy Collora, the emerging director who first made a name for himself in the mid-00′s with the back-to-back, big-budget fan films Batman: Dead End and World’s Finest. Last November, news of his impending feature film directing debut, Hunter Prey, broke across the internet (after Fan Cinema Today actually broke [...]

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Actor Auditions for Freddy Krueger Feature with Nightmare on Elm Street Faux Trailer Fan Film

April 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News

Freddy’s coming back—and Christopher Johnson wants be him. The creator of a fan-made, faux film trailer, Johnson made the short flick to grab the attention of producers behind an upcoming reboot of the long-running Nightmare on Elm Street horror series. Thursday, the story was picked up by Slashfilm and Live For Film, and soon the [...]

Tagged in: blog, christopher Johnson, Cool videos, Entertainment, Fan Cinema Today, Fan Film, fan films, fancinematoday.com, Fandom, fanfilm, fanfilms, Film, Filmmaking, Films, freddy krueger, home movies, Home Video, live for films, movie, Moviemaking, movies, nightmare on elm street, Platinum Dunes, slashfilm, Technology, video, Video Camera, Video Cameras, Videocamera, Videocameras, Videos | 2 Comments

The ZomBeatles: All You Need Is Brains Tastes Funny

March 24th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Review, TV, Writing,

There are Beatles fans, people who dig zombie movies, and folks like Doug Gordon who count themselves as members of both tribes. It was Gordon’s varied interests, then, that led to his new mockumentary, The ZomBeatles: All You Need Is Brains. The 23-minute flick’s new trailer follows the trials, travails, and tasty tibias of the [...]

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Skull Island: A King Kong Fan Film Prequel!

March 20th, 2009 | Posted in Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Review, , stop motion animation

King Kong is a classic movie, but (Spoiler alert for maybe three people on the planet) the problem is that the monkey dies at the end. That never stopped Hollywood from making lots of cheesy sequels, but if you’re a die-hard fan who’s respectful of the original 1933 flick, how do you make a King [...]

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BotCon To Hold Transformers Fan Film Contest

March 18th, 2009 | Posted in Comic Books, Contest, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Public Screening, TV, , stop motion animation

Transformers have been around for 25 years, and they’ve had a fan film link from the very start. Not only have zillions of kids tried their hand at stop-motion animation using their Transformer robots, but Don Glut, one of the pioneer fan filmmakers of the 1950s and 60s who was profiled in my fan film [...]

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Friday the 13th Fan Films Go Legal

March 13th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, Review, , friday the 13th

Ain’t it weird to have a Friday the 13th two months in a row? Last month, the long-running slasher franchise rebooted itself yet again with a feature film that scared up millions at the box-office. Cashing in on that success, a documentary 2-DVD set, His Name Was Jason: 30 Years Of Friday The 13th, hit [...]

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Director Joe Dante Loves The Gremlins Fan Film

March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Public Screening, Review, Steven Spielberg, TV,

Last summer, fan filmmaker Sacha Feiner’s Gremlins flick—where the nasty little guys from the Eighties horror/comedy movies take over your DVR—was the buzz of the internet. Millions enjoyed watching Feiner’s update to the “broken film” scene in Gremlins 2, as his carefully made monsters invade classic scenes from other movies like The Exorcist, Raiders of [...]

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Category Archives: Monster Movies

Boing Boing, The Mask and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Fan Cinema Today’s Week in Tweets

6 Lord of the Rings Fan Films Besides Hunt For Gollum

Star Wars, Orcs & Skateboards: Fan Cinema Today’s Week In Tweets

Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey Trailer Hits The Web!

Actor Auditions for Freddy Krueger Feature with Nightmare on Elm Street Faux Trailer Fan Film

The ZomBeatles: All You Need Is Brains Tastes Funny

Skull Island: A King Kong Fan Film Prequel!

BotCon To Hold Transformers Fan Film Contest

Friday the 13th Fan Films Go Legal

Director Joe Dante Loves The Gremlins Fan Film

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