Tag Archives: Harry Potter

Merry Christmas From Fan Cinema Today!

In the spirit of the holidays, FCT is taking a few days off to relax and have some fun; in the meantime, enjoy our best wishes for the season—and when you head off to the bookstore to return that third copy of Beedle The Bard, please consider trading it in for my humble fan film [...]

Homemade Hollywood Arrives In Stores TODAY!

Well, today’s October 15—the big day when Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera hits the shelves! A full 10 years after I first had the idea for this baby, it’s finally out of my head and into the real world. Here’s a goofy idea: If you see a copy of the book out in the [...]

Fan Film News: Heroes, Potter, My Book, & More!

The “fan film speed news” format was so popular the other week (fan film news in two sentences or less) that here’s another batch of stories: • Not only is NBC’s Heroes a show for nerds (and I say that having never missed an episode, even at the depths of last season), it also stars [...]

Hey, Lego My Movie! Brickfilms Invade Fan Films

When I was a kid, Legos were good for three things—building towers; making a red, yellow and blue gun for playing Cops and Robbers if you weren’t allowed to have toy guns; and throwing at one’s irritating siblings. Times have changed (my brother turned out to be a nice guy, despite the fact that I [...]

Fan Film Trailers: Batman, Potter, Cloverfield!

Generally, I don’t do much about fan film trailers here on FCT—by my estimation, maybe 80 percent of fan movies never reach completion, which means in turn that most fan film trailers are promises that will never be kept. Still, I love to be proven wrong, so with that in mind, here’s a few coming [...]

Son of Harry Potter: The Fan Film

Well, this is a new wrinkle. There’s fan films, and then there’s fan fiction (fanfic), and never the twain shall meet right? Usually, but not this time. Turns out there’s a new fan film being made, James Potter and the Hall of Elders’ Crossing, and it’s based on a Harry Potter fanfic novel. function change_color(input, [...]

Gray Areas Update: Harry Potter Fan Films

Those who enjoyed last week’s ruminations on Harry Potter fan films will be happy to learn that one of the two dramatic flicks I mentioned, Sirius Black and the Secret Keeper, actually is online after all. Thanks to its costumer/ associate producer, Erin Pyne, for the tip. She’ll make her screenwriting/directing debut when her new [...]

Gray Areas: Harry Potter Fan Films

For the past few years, the arrival of a new Harry Potter book has been met with the kind of celebration usually reserved for the Boston Red Sox when they win a World Series. Billions of pre-teens stampede into their local Barnes & Nobles to buy the inevitably massive tome at midnight…only to pass out [...]

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