Born of Hope, a Lord of the Rings fan effort that was announced years ago, has sprung back to life. For ages it appeared that no progress had been made on the film—that’s usually the kiss of death for a fan production, so I figured the film had simply stalled out. Luckily, I was wrong. [...]
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Just last week, I recounted the infamous story of how one of the first superhero fan films to hit the web, Superman: The Super 8 Movie—Special Edition, got forced offline by DC Comics before it developed a more pragmatic view of fan productions. Now Fan Cinema Today is hearing that the famed, forgotten flick may [...]
Still trying to empty the ol’ FCT email bin, and maybe the only real way to get things done is just to do the blogging version of “blipverts” from the old Max Headroom show (Hellooooo, Hollywood: a DVD release someday?). Let’s get to it: • Direct from 1992, it’s Star Trek: USS Proxima. It’s like [...]
Tagged in: cloverfield, Fan Film, fan films, kurt cobain, macbeth, max headroom, operation beta shield, proxima, Star Trek, Star Wars, teenage mutant ninja turtles, the formula, tnmt |
Welcome to the fourth (and easily my favorite) installment of our epic interview with Rajneel Singh, director of the classic Matrix fan film, The Fanimatrix. If you’ve already seen his 16-minute flick, you know it’s a pulse-pounding action flick made on a non-existent budget; if you haven’t seen it and you happen to dig Keanu [...]
This just in: The Dark Knight Project will get its first public screening this weekend, as part of The Chicago International Reel Shorts Festival. The short will be shown Saturday, September 13th, after the 7 PM sci-fi/horror show in the Film Row Cinema at Columbia College (1104 S. Wabash) on the top floor. function change_color(input, [...]
I have lots of little news items that have been lying around, and for some reason, they all concern countries other than the one that monopolizes fan films—the U.S. I meant to give each of these its own massive post, but I think a general catch-all is in order instead, like a giant meeting of [...]
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One of the most notorious moments in fan film history came in the late 1990s, when Marc Kimball, a visual effects editor for TV commercials, dug out a Superman home movie he made in the early Eighties as a college student, and souped it up with 147 (then) modern-day effects on his home computer. Releasing [...]
Way back in the Dark Ages—OK, April—I hosted a panel of some of the brightest stars in the fan film universe at the New York Comic Con. We got nearly 300 people in audience for the event, and despite technical glitches, it went so well that I was inspired to bring this blog back from [...]
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DC Elseworlds link now works. Chris Cowan, a young filmmaker from Cincinnati now based in Los Angeles, has initiated a webseries of fan films called DC Elseworlds. Based on DC Comics’ Elseworlds series, the idea is that heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into alternate realities. So far, there’s three episodes online [...]
Tagged in: batwoman, black canary, Comic Books, DC Comics, dc elseworlds, donna troy, elseworlds, Fan Film, fan films, green lanter, mister terrific, raven |
Welcome to the third installment of our epic interview with Rajneel Singh, director of the classic Matrix fan film, The Fanimatrix. If you’ve already seen his 16-minute flick, you know it’s a pulse-pounding action flick made on a non-existent budget; if you haven’t seen it and you happen to dig Keanu Reeves’ second-best franchise, then [...]
