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Mortal Kombat Fan Film a Diamond in the Rough

May 14th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Mainstream Media, News, Software, Superheroes, Video Games, , science fiction

Influence Films is back in action with its new fan film based on one of the world’s top video game franchises. Mortal Kombat: The Tobias Diamond finds the familiar characters Sonya Blade and Scorpion duking it out, trading quips with the kung-fu kicks. Influence Films gained notice a few months ago with its first effort, [...]

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Batman Vs. Superman – A Duel To The Death!

March 12th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Superheroes, Superman, Uncategorized,

Batman and Superman have always had a love/hate thing going, but sometimes things just boil over in any relationship and there’s no going back to the way things used to be. Greenless Productions in Tuscon, Arizona documented one of those moments in the funniest fan film of 2008: Batman’s Bad Day, a live-action fan film [...]

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Mortal Kombat Fan Film Gets Noble Influence

March 6th, 2009 | Posted in Author, Books, Comic Books, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, News, Software, Superheroes, TV, Video Games, Writing

When it comes to fan films, you don’t see a lot of old-timers helping out the new guys, but that’s what is happening later this week for Influence Films. The fledgling fan film outfit was covered on Fan Cinema Today a few weeks back when I reviewed its Flash flick, The Flash: Crossover, which showed [...]

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A-Pannin’ The Flash

February 4th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, News, Review, Superheroes,

Maybe I’m not the best person to judge a fan film about The Flash, DC Comics’ long-running character. My knowledge of the red guy comes almost entirely from watching a few episodes of his early-Nineties TV show, which I checked out because friends told me I was the white version of Flash’s black sidekick (huh?). [...]

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2008: The Year in Batman Fan Films

December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, DC Comics, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Review, Sandy Collora, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Writing,

Fan films were big this year, but clearly the big movie story was The Dark Knight. The feature film flew off with most of the summer box office, and now it may well do the same with upcoming awards season trinkets. Unsurprisingly, the movie lead to a lot of fan-created Batman tributes, ranging from an [...]

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Batman Off The Clock (and maybe his rocker)

July 14th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Mainstream Media, Superheroes, Superman,

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a movie coming out this week about a Caped Crusader guy who fights crime and stuff. Yeah, it looks like the world has been seized by another bout of BatMania, thanks to Friday’s debut of The Dark Knight. While Batman is always portrayed as a hero—a deeply flawed, ridiculously [...]

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Mortal Kombat Fan Film a Diamond in the Rough

Batman Vs. Superman – A Duel To The Death!

Mortal Kombat Fan Film Gets Noble Influence

A-Pannin’ The Flash

2008: The Year in Batman Fan Films

Batman Off The Clock (and maybe his rocker)

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