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2008: The Year in Batman Fan Films

December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Sandy Collora, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Writing,

Fan films were big this year, but clearly the big movie story was The Dark Knight. The feature film flew off with most of the summer box office, and now it may well do the same with upcoming awards season trinkets. Unsurprisingly, the movie lead to a lot of fan-created Batman tributes, ranging from an [...]

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FanEdit.Org Slammed By MPAA, Soldiers On

December 4th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Copyright, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Mainstream Media, News

FanEdit.Org got a DMCA warning from the MPAA last week, forcing it to remove links to fan edits (feature films that had been re-edited by fans to suit their personal tastes). The move prompted press coverage, and even some bizarre fan outcry from a blog that covers Hollywood trade unions—its beef was that the MPAA [...]

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Dark Knight Fan Edit Remixes Silent Film History

August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Superheroes

There’s nothing like a massive, runaway blockbuster film to inspire tributes from fans. Sometimes they’re pretty stupid, and other times, they’re just cool. Take, for instance, Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man—a retro, 1920s Dark Knight short, made from editing together a slew of vintage silent films, such as The Bat (1926), The Man Who Laughs [...]

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Gray Areas: The Alternate World of Fan Edits

March 29th, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Mainstream Media, Star Trek, Star Wars

“The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.”—-Mark Twain That assessment still rings true today, and whether you’re a fan filmmaker or a professional director, few things sting more than learning that the world thinks your movie reeks like a diaper full of Doors albums. Of course, while the old [...]

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Gray Areas: Deleted Magic From Star Wars

February 1st, 2007 | Posted in Analysis, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Mainstream Media, Public Screening, Star Wars, Uncategorized,

Garrett Gilchrist’s jaw-dropping documentary, Deleted Magic, is perhaps the greatest fan-created project ever, because it really does the impossible: It took a movie that I love but which I have zero desire to ever see again, and made it Brand New. And if that ain’t magic, I don’t know what is.

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Tag Archives: Fan Edit

2008: The Year in Batman Fan Films

FanEdit.Org Slammed By MPAA, Soldiers On

Dark Knight Fan Edit Remixes Silent Film History

Gray Areas: The Alternate World of Fan Edits

Gray Areas: Deleted Magic From Star Wars

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