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

March 31st, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Horror Movies, Mainstream Media, News, Software, Star Trek, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Watchmen, Writing, , ghostbusters, science fiction, stop motion animation

March was a busy month around here! Here’s Fan Cinema Today‘s 10 most popular stories of the last month, presented in chronological order. March 3: 5 FREE Freaky Filmmaking Programs for Macs If you have a Mac and are looking for some free ways to make your next flick—or at least give it some visual [...]

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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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2008: The Year in Fan Film News

December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Software, Son of Rambow, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Video Games, Writing, , marvel comics

Ah, the last post of 2008—and what a year it was for fan films. Fan Cinema Today has been bringing you all the news since it sputtered back to life in April, and there’s been plenty to write about. It was a year where fan films made tremendous strides forward in the public eye, with [...]

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The Gremlins Are Back and Taking Over Fan Films

August 25th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, TV

When I interviewed MIT’s Henry Jenkins for my upcoming fan film book, Homemade Hollywood, he made a comment that perfectly summed up what spurs so many people to create their own vision of a franchise with a fan film, explaining, “Fan-created production is borne out of a mixture of fascination and frustration…the idea that there’s [...]

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

Director Joe Dante Loves The Gremlins Fan Film

2008: The Year in Fan Film News

The Gremlins Are Back and Taking Over Fan Films

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