Tag Archives: San Diego Comic Con

Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey Trailer Hits The Web!

It’s been a busy time for Sandy Collora, the emerging director who first made a name for himself in the mid-00′s with the back-to-back, big-budget fan films Batman: Dead End and World’s Finest. Last November, news of his impending feature film directing debut, Hunter Prey, broke across the internet (after Fan Cinema Today actually broke [...]

Homemade Hollywood Gets io9 Rave Review!

io9.com is the biggest Sci-Fi website on the planet, and that’s not just me saying that; it’s a fact. So I’m pretty damn excited that they wrote up my fan film book, Homemade Hollywood, on Thursday—and the best part is, they loved it! Editor-in-chief Annalee Newitz’s review starts out calling the book “terrific” and then [...]

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 [...]

Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Winners To Air This Week On Comedy Central

It’s one of those Good News, Bad News situations. As part of the annual Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge held last July at San Diego Comic Con, Lucasfilm and Atom Films promised that the winning entries would be shown on Spike TV. In the meantime, however, Atom Films has been bought by Comedy Central, so [...]

Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Winners Announced

We’ve been talking about it for days, and now the results are in for this year’s Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge. Presented Thursday night at the San Diego Comic Con, the seventh annual awards were a hit from the start and saw guest appearances at the podium from the likes of Kevin Spacey and Kyle [...]

Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Pre-Game, Part 2

Hey, welcome back to The Fan Cinema Today Pre-Game Show for the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Awards Ceremony! Tonight is the big event at the San Diego Comic Con, so now I’ll foolhardily try to guess who will take home the gold, even though I haven’t watched all 41 entries in the contest. Who’s [...]

Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Pre-Game, Part 1

Welcome to The Fan Cinema Today Pre-Game Show for the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Awards Ceremony! I was gonna try to do this as a podcast, but it turns out that I’m incredibly lazy (who knew?), so text it is. The Dark Knight may be all the rage in fan films this week, but [...]

Book Excerpt: Building Batman: Dead End

With the nation going bonkers for The Dark Knight this week, it seems only fitting to unveil a related snippet of the upcoming fan film book, Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera. Here’s an edited-down excerpt about one of the most popular fan movies of all-time, Sandy Collora’s 2003 flick, Batman: Dead End. As regular [...]

Is The Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge Sexist?

Voting for the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge closes out today, making this your last chance to vote for the Audience Choice Award, which will be handed out at the San Diego Comic Con, on July 24. I suspect that most of the fan film community feels the SWFMC is a good thing, but not [...]

DC Comics Officially OKs Fan Films

DC Comics and its parent company Warner Brothers have had a mixed history with fan films over the years, from shutting down one of the first Superman fan flicks to hit the web, to requesting that San Diego Comic Con respect its copyrights by not presenting fan films featuring its characters—a move that ended the [...]

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