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More Stop-Motion Animation Secrets of Star Wars Tales

April 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Comic Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Star Wars, Writing, science fiction, stop motion animation

In December, FCT covered Danny Mosier’s extensive fan film, Star Wars Tales, a stop-motion animated action figure flick that spins a slew of new short stories that take place in the Star Wars Universe. Mosier spent three years animating the flick, which makes him either extremely dedicated or utterly insane (or both). Speaking with FCT, [...]

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Stop-Motion Animation Secrets of Star Wars Tales

April 21st, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Writing, stop motion animation

In December, FCT covered Danny Moiser’s extensive fan film, Star Wars Tales, a stop-motion animated action figure flick that spins a slew of new short stories that take place in the Star Wars Universe. Mosier spent three years animating the flick, which makes him either extremely dedicated or utterly insane (or both). Speaking with FCT, [...]

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Star Wars, Orcs & Skateboards: Fan Cinema Today’s Week In Tweets

April 17th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Publishing, Star Wars, , friday the 13th, science fiction, stop motion animation,

If you follow the Fan Cinema Today Twitter feed, you know that you get extra stories that don’t appear on the blog; everyone else is missing out on that extra fan film awesomeness. On the other hand, I hate to see a good thing go to waste, so here’s some Tweets of the Week. For [...]

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Pink Five Returns…Sort Of

April 13th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Pink Five, Public Screening, Publishing, Sandy Collora, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, Writing, , science fiction

When it comes to the Women of Star Wars, well, you can keep ‘em. Slave-bikini Leia? Whatever. Wimpering Amidala? Yawn. Or how about…um…there really aren’t any other women in Star Wars, unless you count Aunt Beru. Me, I’d want to hang out with Stacey, the Valley Girl heroine of Pink Five—and I’m not alone on [...]

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Star Wars Gets Sexy In New Fan Film

April 10th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Star Wars, , science fiction

I may be the only guy on the planet to say this, but Princess Leia in the Metal Slave Bikini never really did anything for me. Meh. There aren’t many women in the Star Wars movies in the first place, so I’ve always found it to be a rather sexless saga—which is likely just how [...]

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Iron Fist, Elektra & Star Wars Fan Films Team Up In NYC

April 8th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Blinky Productions, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Iron Fist, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, Tawnya Manion, Writing, , marvel comics, science fiction

This past weekend was a double-header of fan film goodness for Fan Cinema Today, as I hosted movie event/author talks two days in a row, first at Anthology Film Archives in New York City on Friday night, and then the next day, out on Long Island at I-Con 28, the long-running Sci-Fi convention. The Anthology [...]

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Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey Trailer Hits The Web!

April 7th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, Monster Movies, News, Pink Five, Public Screening, Publishing, Sandy Collora, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, Writing, , science fiction

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 [...]

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Fan Films, Media Assassins, Sex Toys & Me—on the Radio!

April 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Indiana Jones, Iron Man, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Writing, , marvel comics, science fiction

Recently, I was a guest on NonFiction, a weekly news magazine on New York’s WBAI-FM. Host Harry Allen, the Media Assassin, knows a lot about fan films (he once wrote about them for the late, great Premiere magazine), so we had a blast talking about the Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation guys; various [...]

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Star Wars Gets The Neil Simon Treatment

April 1st, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Star Wars, TV, Writing, , science fiction

In honor of April Fools Day, here’s one of my all-time favorite Star Wars fan films, The Odd Star Wars Couple, which has been banging around the internet for over a decade. I don’t know why this never became huge, because it is a side-splitter. Maybe it’s a generational thing, where the kids simply ain’t [...]

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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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