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Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Comes Home Saturday

June 25th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, TV,

A one-night-only public screening of the South Mississippi–shot fan-film phenomenon, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, will be held June 27 at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education in Ocean Springs. MS.

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Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Lands In London

May 12th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Contest, Copyright, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, Uncategorized, Writing

In March, Fan Cinema Today broke the news that the famed fan film, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, was going to make its UK premiere in late April as a charity event in London. The gala evening has now come and gone, but fortunately, it was a massive hit. Three 12-year-old Mississippi kids [...]

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Swing into Indiana Jones and the Staff of Ra

April 15th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, Writing

There are characters that people never tire of—James Bond…Batman…Winnie the Pooh. You can definitely include Indiana Jones on that list. We’ve covered a ton of indie Indy flicks on Fan Cinema Today, from the famous Mississippi trio that made a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark throughout the 1980s (which I wrote about [...]

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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation To Get UK Premiere In London

March 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Steven Spielberg, Writing

Slashfilm created a buzz this afternoon with a story that Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation was given a theatrical rating to be shown in the UK, leading to the idea that it will get a widespread theatrical release there. Turns out that’s not entirely true, but at the least, the famous fan film [...]

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New Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation Screenings!

March 17th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Steven Spielberg, Uncategorized

If you love fan films or Indiana Jones, you have not lived until you’ve seen Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation—the legendary fan film made by three teens over the course of seven years. From start to end, they recreate just about everything from the original, from the truck chase to the boulder to [...]

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Whole Lotta Lunds Make Indiana John & The Silver Platter

March 10th, 2009 | Posted in Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Steven Spielberg

A while back, I wrote about Little Indiana Jones, which presented a pint-sized view of George Lucas and Steven Speilberg’s famed archeologist. It turns out that’s not the only kid-centric Indy flick out there—check out Indiana John and the Silver Platter, made by the Lund Family (and there’s a lot of Lunds—seven NINE kids!). Director [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Arrives In Stores TODAY!

October 15th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Attack of the Show, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Contest, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Film Threat, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, Writing,

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 [...]

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Indiana Jones: The Silent Serial Fan Film

October 9th, 2008 | Posted in Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg

Over the Memorial Day weekend of 1977, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg hung out on a beach in Hawaii, making sand castles and holding an impromptu filmmaker support group of sorts. Lucas was certain his new Sci-Fi epic, which had just opened that weekend, was about to flop, but Spielberg assured him he’d be fine. [...]

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Little Batman Goes Indy

October 7th, 2008 | Posted in Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Indiana Jones, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes

Regular FCT readers may recall a fairly big-budget fan production I wrote about back in June, The Amazing Adventures of Little Batman. The flick launched last year on YouTube and has since become an online phenomenon, seen by more than 65,000 people. Now Jordan H. Wachtell, the fan film’s producer—not to mention the Dad of [...]

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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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HOMEMADE HOLLYWOOD!

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the first book about fan films, was written by the editor of this blog. If you like Fan Cinema Today, you'll LOVE the book!

"A loving, exhaustive history of the fan-film…this book's a real treasure, an inspiration."---Cory Doctorow

"Part celebration, part scholarly history, Clive Young's homage to fan-made flicks is a passionate, persuasive exercise in balance."---Total Film

"Young's account is intelligent and partisan."---Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Riveting!...Grade: A"
--Adam-Troy Castro,
SciFi Channel Magazine

"The writing is lively; the storytelling engaging…As someone who has been researching fan culture off and on for more than 20 years, I learned something on almost every page.”--Dr. Henry Jenkins, Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program

"Terrific…. The cool, revealing tales…make Clive Young's book, Homemade Hollywood, an absolute pleasure to read. If you're interested in fan movies, or the subterranean world of Hollywood, it's a must-read."
--Annalee Newitz, io9.Com

"Young brings the rigors of a scholar and the Inside Baseball of a fan to this well-researched and -written survey…. A fascinating chronicle of how [fan film] culture came to be.”--PopMatters.Com

"A thoroughly entertaining read that should be required reading for teenagers who claim there’s absolutely nothing cool to do in their town."--FilmFetish.Com

"I just loved the hell out of this book...It’s a fun, jaunty, well-organized retrospective [with] a breezy-yet-very knowledgeable style which is entertaining without being showy."--Republibot.Com

"A pretty fascinating read, one that balances scholarship with entertainment value." --Twitch.Com

"Clive Young has put together a really nice history of fan films."--Kevin Kelly, Spout.Com

"Clive Young has researched the heck out of this topic and written an entertaining, fact-filled book to boot. A must for the geek in all of us." --, James Bond and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell novelist.

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"It is an amazingly inspirational book for filmmakers. In fact, in my opinion, it ties for best inspirational read with Rebels on the Backlot." --MicroFilmmaker

"Clive Young's book does a great job putting together the unknown history of fan films…I never got to make a fan film, but after reading Homemade Hollywood, I wish I had." --RetroThing.Com

"I bought a copy and read it in two days, then bought a second copy to send to a family member. For anyone who is interested in fan films or just loves filmmaking, this is a must read.”--Phase II eMagazine
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