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Hey LA! Meet Sandy Collora, Trey Stokes (and Me) at the Hammer Musuem TONIGHT!

April 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Pink Five, Public Screening, Publishing, Sandy Collora, Star Wars, Superheroes, Writing, , science fiction

UPDATE: The fan film program was a big success—more in a few days (and a veritable Who’s Who group photo of the L.A. fan film crowd). That’s right–tonight (Wednesday, April 22) is the big fan film talk at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles! Starting at 7PM, I’ll be hosting a night of fan film [...]

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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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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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Fan Cinema Today live TODAY on WBAI

March 20th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Writing, , science fiction

Hey, I’ll be appearing this afternoon at 2PM on New York’s WBAI-NY / 99.5 FM. The show is “NonFiction,” hosted by Harry Allen, The Media Assassin. If you don’t live in range of WBAI, you can listen through their web site at www.wbai.org, and they also archive shows for 90 days at http://archive.wbai.org/allshows.php. function change_color(input, [...]

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Sci-Fi Legend John Varley: “Fan Films Suck!”

March 4th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Writing, , science fiction

Republibot, a sci-fi fan site that describes itself as “the Science Fiction Site for people who aren’t Drooling Kneejerk Liberals,” recently interviewed sci-fi legend John Varley, one of the most accomplished authors in the genre. How accomplished? He’s the proud owner of two Nebulas, three Hugos, and 10 Locus awards. However, he’s also the owner [...]

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MOMA Is Run By Hypocritical Jerks

February 15th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Writing

Fan films are officially considered to be art now—they must be, because the other day, I stumbled across my book about them, Homemade Hollywood, in the Design Store at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Pretty cool. The downside, however, is that MOMA is run by hypocritical jerks. For years, I’ve maintained that [...]

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Fan Cinema Today Picks for New York Comic Con 2009

February 5th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Blinky Productions, Books, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Superheroes, TV, Watchmen, Writing, friday the 13th, marvel comics

The 2009 New York Comic Con is upon us, so as Fan Cinema Today has done in the past, here’s FCT‘s top fan film-related choices for the weekend. The overall offerings at the convention are a little underwhelming compared to previous years, however, and the business panels in particular have been severely pruned back; gone [...]

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Legendary Banned Warhammer 40,000 Fan Film Damnatus Leaked Online

January 30th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, Mainstream Media, News, TV, Uncategorized

After two years stuck in legal limbo, the now-legendary Warhammer 40,000 fan film, Damnatus, has been released online as a Bit Torrent file. The German feature-length film, which reportedly took four years and $15,000 to produce, is based on a popular series of role-playing table-top games, and is one of the most ambitious fan productions [...]

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Star Trek: Phase II Starts Buck Rogers Web Series

January 15th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Author, Books, Copyright, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, James Cawley, Mainstream Media, News, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Writing

Star Trek: Phase II‘s James Cawley announced this week that he and his crew are tackling another Sci-Fi classic—Buck Rogers in the 25th Century—and it’s NOT a fan film! They’ve gotten a license from the copyright holder to create 20 40-minute web episodes, and will debut the series in the fall of 2010. TrekMovie.com has [...]

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2008: The Year in Fan Film News

December 31st, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Horror Movies, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Review, Sandy Collora, Software, Son of Rambow, Star Trek, Star Trek: New Voyages, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman, TV, Video Games, Writing, , marvel comics

Ah, the last post of 2008—and what a year it was for fan films. Fan Cinema Today has been bringing you all the news since it sputtered back to life in April, and there’s been plenty to write about. It was a year where fan films made tremendous strides forward in the public eye, with [...]

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