Category Archives: Libraries

Fan Cinema Today To Close

July 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Dan Poole, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Hardware Wars, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Review, Spider-Man, Star Wars, TV, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing, science fiction

FAN CINEMA TODAY is calling it a day. Since its debut in January, 2007, FCT has presented the latest news in the emerging international fan film community. Many—including myself—doubted that the site would even generate one story a week, but most of the time, it featured a new post every weekday, providing news, analysis, criticism, [...]

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Fan Film Festival on Long Island TONIGHT!

June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Writing

Tonight (June 9) at the Port Washington Library, I’ll be doing an author talk/book signing, where I’ll show some of the all-time greatest fan films on the big screen, and give a multimedia presentation tracing fan movie history from 1926 to the present.

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JUNE CONTEST: Win RiP: A Remix Manifesto On DVD!

June 5th, 2009 | Posted in Analysis, Contest, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Review, Software, TV, Uncategorized, Writing

Tarantino and Peckinpah aren’t “Outlaw Filmmakers;” the people who make fan films, now those are outlaws, riding hell-for-leather all over copyright and intellectual property law! You know Quentin never risked going to jail to make a movie, but fan filmmakers have no choice but to go rogue if they want to practice their art. Of [...]

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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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Homemade Hollywood Gets A High Five From SciFi

March 9th, 2009 | Posted in Amazon, Author, Books, Contest, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Public Screening, Publishing, Review, Sci-Fi Channel, Watchmen, Writing

SciFi Channel is fun to watch, but I’ve always been partial to their magazine, the imaginitively titled SciFi Magazine: The Official Magazine of The SciFi Channel. Like many publications based primarily around movies and TV, it follows what’s hot at the moment, but it nonetheless keeps the fan’s point-of-view in mind, and always calls- a [...]

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Homemade Hollywood FINALLY on Amazon!!!

December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Attack of the Show, Author, Batman, Books, Comic Books, Continuum Books, Copyright, DC Comics, Dan Poole, Education, Eli Roth, Fan Film, Film Threat, Filmmaking, George Lucas, Gray Areas, Harry Potter, Henry Jenkins, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, Mainstream Media, Max Payne, News, Publishing, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, Superheroes, TV, The Green Goblin's Last Stand, Writing,

It’s taken forever, but my book about fan films, Homemade Hollywood, is finally on Amazon for real!! There was a place-holder page on there forever–well, NO MORE. The book is FINALLY available on Amazon—and it’s $13 and change, not $85 as noted elsewhere. What a freakin’ relief. For those who aren’t familiar with it, here’s [...]

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Homemade Hollywood Birth Announcement

November 21st, 2008 | Posted in Amazon, Analysis, Author, Books, Continuum Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Libraries, Mainstream Media, News, Publishing, Writing

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Born of Hope: A LOTR Fan Film Reborn

September 17th, 2008 | Posted in Author, Books, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Libraries, Lord of the Rings

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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How To Not Violate Copyrights With Your Fan Film

August 1st, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Copyright, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, Gray Areas, History, Libraries, Software

Let’s say you’re making a parody fan film and you decide to produce it in a way that would let you legally release and distribute it so that you could make some money from your hard work. The key would be to make sure you don’t violate anyone else’s copyrights. You change the characters’ names [...]

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Fan Film Festival On Long Island This Week!

July 27th, 2008 | Posted in Analysis, Batman, Comic Books, Education, Fan Film, Filmmaking, History, Homemade Hollywood, Indiana Jones, Libraries, News, Public Screening, Star Wars, Superheroes, Superman

So maybe you live on Long Island (it’s near New York City, for all of you reading this on the other side of the planet), or perhaps you have a summer share out in the Hamptons, or maybe you’re in, I dunno, Wyoming but you like to drive really long distances. If any of these [...]

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