We’re hearing from credible sources that the popular fan film G.I. Joe and the Battle for the Serpent Stone will appear as an “extra” in the forthcoming cartoon series DVD box set, G.I. Joe A Real American Hero: Season 1.1.
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Toast 10 Titanium is a suite of integrated media programs devoted to different forms of archiving.
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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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Get your old Super 8, 8mm and 16mm movies transferred before you can only wish that you had. Here’s four places to get them transferred; some are cheap, others are expensive (relatively speaking), but as they say, you can’t put a price on a memory.
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The Hunt For Gollum, the long-awaited fan film based on J.R.R. Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings trilogy has been released online. The fan film is based on appendices to the classic trilogy, following Aragorn/Strider as he tracks down, well, Gollum. While director Chris Bouchard had initially suggested the fan film would run 45 minutes, it’s [...]
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Last summer, fan filmmaker Sacha Feiner’s Gremlins flick—where the nasty little guys from the Eighties horror/comedy movies take over your DVR—was the buzz of the internet. Millions enjoyed watching Feiner’s update to the “broken film” scene in Gremlins 2, as his carefully made monsters invade classic scenes from other movies like The Exorcist, Raiders of [...]
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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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A decade ago, internet video was a complete disaster; you could spend days downloading a 5-minute video the size of a postage stamp, only to have it stutter along when you finally played the movie on your computer. Those days are thankfully gone, but the desire to watch a fan film in high-quality video on [...]
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When I interviewed MIT’s Henry Jenkins for my upcoming fan film book, Homemade Hollywood, he made a comment that perfectly summed up what spurs so many people to create their own vision of a franchise with a fan film, explaining, “Fan-created production is borne out of a mixture of fascination and frustration…the idea that there’s [...]
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Donald F. Glut (pronounced “Gloot”) was a pioneer fan filmmaker, who began making movies in the 1950s, producing a staggering 41 shorts before he got out of college. Now, 50 years later, they’ve all been gathered up as bonus extras on Glut’s new DVD, I Was A Teenage Movie Maker. The heart of the two-disc [...]
