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SOFTWARE REVIEW: Toast 10 Titanium

June 11th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Batman, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Software, TV, Writing,

Toast 10 Titanium is a suite of integrated media programs devoted to different forms of archiving.

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Fan Film Festival on Long Island TONIGHT!

June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Writing

Tonight (June 9) at the Port Washington Library, I’ll be doing an author talk/book signing, where I’ll show some of the all-time greatest fan films on the big screen, and give a multimedia presentation tracing fan movie history from 1926 to the present.

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Watchmen : The High School Years Fan Film Series

June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Comic Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Superheroes, Watchmen, , science fiction

Here’s a series of Watchmen fan films endorsed by Rorschach himself—Jackie Earle Haley.

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Batman: Ashes To Ashes French Fan Film Is DOA

June 8th, 2009 | Posted in Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Horror Movies, News, Review, Superheroes, Writing,

The new French fan film, Batman: Ashes To Ashes, is tearing up the internet and going viral. The popularity of this film is just as incomprehensible as the movie itself, and believe me, this flick makes no sense at all.

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Star Wars, Animorphs, Wolverine and Green Lantern: Fan Cinema Today’s Tweets of the Last Three Weeks

June 5th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Software, Star Wars, Superheroes, TV, Video Games, Watchmen, Writing, , marvel comics, 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 last [...]

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Spider-Man and Harley Quinn Under The Influence

June 4th, 2009 | Posted in Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, News, Spider-Man, Superheroes, , marvel comics

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.

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5 Free Online Screenwriting Programs

June 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Software, Writing

I owe both my books (the illustrious Homemade Hollywood and Crank It Up) to the fact that I won Script Magazine‘s screenwriting contest a few years ago. After the winners were announced, I was contacted by a few Hollwyood agents who wanted to read the screenplay, and the unanimous reaction was “Looove it—when you moving [...]

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

June 1st, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, James Cawley, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superheroes, TV, Writing, , marvel comics, science fiction,

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 [...]

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

May 28th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Comic Books, Dan Poole, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Spider-Man, Superheroes, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing, marvel comics, science fiction

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 [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend Fan Films: Captain America

May 25th, 2009 | Posted in Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, News, Superheroes, , marvel comics

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HOMEMADE HOLLYWOOD!

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the first book about fan films, was written by the editor of this blog. If you like Fan Cinema Today, you'll LOVE the book!

"A loving, exhaustive history of the fan-film…this book's a real treasure, an inspiration."---Cory Doctorow

"Part celebration, part scholarly history, Clive Young's homage to fan-made flicks is a passionate, persuasive exercise in balance."---Total Film

"Young's account is intelligent and partisan."---Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Riveting!...Grade: A"
--Adam-Troy Castro,
SciFi Channel Magazine

"The writing is lively; the storytelling engaging…As someone who has been researching fan culture off and on for more than 20 years, I learned something on almost every page.”--Dr. Henry Jenkins, Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program

"Terrific…. The cool, revealing tales…make Clive Young's book, Homemade Hollywood, an absolute pleasure to read. If you're interested in fan movies, or the subterranean world of Hollywood, it's a must-read."
--Annalee Newitz, io9.Com

"Young brings the rigors of a scholar and the Inside Baseball of a fan to this well-researched and -written survey…. A fascinating chronicle of how [fan film] culture came to be.”--PopMatters.Com

"A thoroughly entertaining read that should be required reading for teenagers who claim there’s absolutely nothing cool to do in their town."--FilmFetish.Com

"I just loved the hell out of this book...It’s a fun, jaunty, well-organized retrospective [with] a breezy-yet-very knowledgeable style which is entertaining without being showy."--Republibot.Com

"A pretty fascinating read, one that balances scholarship with entertainment value." --Twitch.Com

"Clive Young has put together a really nice history of fan films."--Kevin Kelly, Spout.Com

"Clive Young has researched the heck out of this topic and written an entertaining, fact-filled book to boot. A must for the geek in all of us." --, James Bond and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novelist.

"He knocked this book out of the park...I had a hard time putting Homemade Hollywood down."--ComicBookBin.Com

"Homemade Hollywood appeals not just to the fanboy, but also to those who enjoy good books about filmmaking."--Comic Related

"It is an amazingly inspirational book for filmmakers. In fact, in my opinion, it ties for best inspirational read with Rebels on the Backlot." --MicroFilmmaker

"Clive Young's book does a great job putting together the unknown history of fan films…I never got to make a fan film, but after reading Homemade Hollywood, I wish I had." --RetroThing.Com

"I bought a copy and read it in two days, then bought a second copy to send to a family member. For anyone who is interested in fan films or just loves filmmaking, this is a must read.”--Phase II eMagazine
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