Tag Archives: Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera

Homemade Hollywood FINALLY on Amazon!!!

December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Attack of the Show, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Film Threat, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, TV, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing,

It’s taken forever, but my book about fan films, Homemade Hollywood, is finally on Amazon for real!! There was a place-holder page on there forever–well, NO MORE. The book is FINALLY available on Amazon—and it’s $13 and change, not $85 as noted elsewhere. What a freakin’ relief. For those who aren’t familiar with it, here’s [...]

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Star Wars Fan Film on a US Navy Missile Cruiser

December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Homemade Hollywood, Star Wars

In the realm of fan films, there’s been lightsaber battles on deserted planets, in machine shops and, of course, don’t forget that perennial favorite, the woods. However, this one, Star Wars, Episode 67: The Seeds of Betrayal, might just beat them all if only for the location: the USS Shiloh. Engineers on the USS Shiloh [...]

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FCT Roadtrip Report: New England Fan Experience

November 24th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Books, Comic Books, Doctor Who, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Homemade Hollywood, James Cawley, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Superheroes, Superman

It’s almost midnight as I write this—I just got in from hours of driving and haven’t unpacked yet, so it’s short one today. I hit the New England Fan Experience in Cambridge, MA over the weekend to both show tons of fan films during two separate programs and introduce my brand-new masterpiece humble tome, Homemade [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Birth Announcement

November 21st, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing

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FCT Hosts Fan Films, Debuts Homemade Hollywood Book at New England Fan Experience This Weekend!

November 20th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Star Wars, Superheroes

I’ve been doing a lot of roadtrips recently to promote my new book, Homemade Hollywood, and this weekend ain’t no exception. I’ll be hosting not one but two programs about fan films at the New England Fan Experience, a pretty wild convention in Cambridge, MA that starts today and runs through Sunday. I’ll also finally [...]

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Fan Film Gives Elektra A Hand

November 19th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Blinky Productions, Books, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Iron Fist, News, Superheroes, Tawnya Manion, Writing, marvel comics

Even though Marvel Comics is the biggest comic book company around, the DC Comics characters get all the fan film attention. This week, FCT takes a look at some of the Marvel-based fan flicks that have been flying under the radar. Elektra is something of an oddity in the comic book world, in that she’s [...]

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Batman: Dead End Director’s Hunter Prey Peek!

November 18th, 2008 | Posted in Fan Film

I know, I know—I said it was gonna be “all Marvel, all the time” this week, but that was before io9, the biggest Sci-Fi blog on the planet, dropped a bombshell on fan film lovers: the first major interview with Sandy Collora about his upcoming feature film debut, Hunter Prey. Collora, you may recall, was [...]

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FCT Roadtrip Report: Five Towns College

November 14th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Iron Fist, Mainstream Media, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Superheroes, Superman

Is a roadtrip a roadtrip if it’s only a 40-minute drive? On Election Day, I spoke about fan films as a guest speaker at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, NY. About a year ago, I sat in on the school’s “Comics To Film” course and interviewed its professor, Dan Galiardi, for Homemade Hollywood, so [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Ready To Roll!

November 12th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing

Remember that little book I’ve mentioned only about a billion times? Perhaps you recall how I kept saying it was coming out, month after month…and then it didn’t? Well, the latest news from my publisher, Continuum, is that Homemade Hollywood rolls off the presses on November 14! From there, it gets shipped out to book [...]

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See A 1936 Fan Film—And Meet The Filmmaker!

November 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Books, Contest, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Review

Early fan films are hard to find—in part because many of the filmmakers who made ‘em are no longer around. So this Sunday, November 9, will be a real treat if you happen to attend the Third Annual Hartford International Film Festival in Hartford, CT. Not only will you get to see a classic fan [...]

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