Monthly Archives: May 2008

Watchmen Fan Film Contest Announced

May 15th, 2008 | Posted in Comic Books, Contest, Fan Film, Mainstream Media, News, Superheroes, Uncategorized, Watchmen

Dude, I love Watchmen. I never seem to go with the mainstream on anything, but I tend to agree with most people that it just might be the best comic book ever. As a result, I’m looking forward to March 6 next year—the date that the Watchmen big-screen adaptation opens—with a mixture of excitement and [...]

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Fan Film Podcast Debuts Episode 11

May 15th, 2008 | Posted in Batman, Blinky Productions, Books, Comic Books, Dan Poole, Fan Film, History, Homemade Hollywood, Iron Fist, News, Public Screening, Spider-Man, Superheroes, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Uncategorized

Until a month ago, FCT was flying well below the radar. I spent about a year only posting once a month with updates on how writing Homemade Hollywood was going—and that was it. While FCT was MIA, however, a new source of fan film news came along—The Fan Film Podcast—and it’s a lot of fun. [...]

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From Superman Fan Film To TV Personality

May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Comic Books, Fan Film, Mainstream Media, News, Superheroes, Superman, Uncategorized,

When we talk about fan film folks trying to make it big, we tend to focus on the directors, but hey, sometimes the stars get to make it big, too. Case in point: I’m walking home through Times Square the other day when I look up at a billboard and see a somewhat familiar face [...]

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Smart Take on Star Trek: Phase II Controversy

May 13th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Fan Film, Gray Areas, James Cawley, News, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Writing

The best Fan Film brouhaha so far this year has to be the fuss a few weeks ago when Star Trek: New Voy…uh, Phase II got nominated for a Nebula Award for the episode, “World Enough and Time” (AKA “The one with Sulu in it”). The move sparked all kinds of controversy within the Sci-Fi [...]

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Bits and Pieces

May 12th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Son of Rambow

• Son of Rambow is continuing to pick up speed; Variety.com reports that the flick—which is about fan filmmaking in 1980s England—grossed $137,971 over the weekend, for a to-date total of $210,974 in the U.S. Paramount Vantage plans to expand the movie to between 75 and 90 theaters on Friday. • Be Kind Rewind—this year’s [...]

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Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation Fan Film To Play Mann’s Chinese In L.A. On Wednesday!

May 8th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Eli Roth, Fan Film, George Lucas, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, News, Public Screening, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Steven Spielberg, Uncategorized

There’s good fan films and then there’s great fan films—and then there’s Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. The feature film-length flick, made on video in the 1980s by three Mississippi teenagers, is the stuff of legend (and rightfully so), and now it’s going to play at the Mecca of movies, Mann’s Chinese Theater [...]

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Son of Rambow Expands

May 8th, 2008 | Posted in Fan Film, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Son of Rambow, Uncategorized

Son of Rambow, the little movie that might, is on the move this weekend, spreading out from five to 36 theaters nationwide, as Paramount Vantage expands its release. In the meantime, here’s a nice article in the New York Sun that uses an interview with the director, Garth Jennings, as a jumping off point to [...]

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Max Payne Fan Film Shot Down By Fox

May 8th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, Gray Areas, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Public Screening, Software, Uncategorized, Video Games

These days, it almost feels like fan films are legal. Almost. Lucasfilm encourages them, and DC Comics said here on FCT that it’s fine with fan productions, but for every major company that understands the benefits of fans using its entertainment properties, there’s plenty of corporations that just don’t get it. Hasbro has forced a [...]

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Free Stop-Motion Animation Video Software

May 6th, 2008 | Posted in Fan Film, History, Mainstream Media, Software, Uncategorized

The arrival of home video cameras in the late Seventies turbocharged home movies. Amateur filmmakers were used to spending a fortune on 3-minute, silent 8mm film reels that you shot, hoped the exposure was right and then sent off to the local photo lab for 3-4 weeks. When the reels came back, people had to [...]

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Son of Rambow Opens Solid

May 6th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Fan Film, History, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Son of Rambow

Sure, FCT is all about amateur films, but we’ve been following Son of Rambow for over a year now (I wrote about it in one of this site’s very first posts). Since then, I’ve been waiting for its release so I could see it—and now that it debuted this past weekend, I still haven’t seen [...]

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