When I was a kid, Legos were good for three things—building towers; making a red, yellow and blue gun for playing Cops and Robbers if you weren’t allowed to have toy guns; and throwing at one’s irritating siblings. Times have changed (my brother turned out to be a nice guy, despite the fact that I [...]
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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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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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Eric Zala and Chris Strompolos are two of the three guys who famously spent seven years in the 1980s making a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. While it’s their biggest claim to fame so far, they’ve spent the last few years writing a new action adventure script, What The River Takes, that [...]
“Moriarty” (AKA Drew McWeeny) has always been one of my favorite writers on Ain’t It Cool News (AICN), not merely because I tend to agree with his observations, but also because he tends to temper his reviews. On a site that never met an exclamation point it didn’t like (which is part of its charm), [...]
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Indiana Jones Templars Fan Film Scores
One of the cool things about the upcoming fan film, Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Templars, is that not only does it look good (you can watch the first 12 minutes of the movie here), but it sounds good, too, in part because it has its own soundtrack composed by George Shaw. On [...]
Sometimes there’s no greater, more sublime pleasure in the world than sitting around with the guys, drinking beer and watching some crummy movie. Somebody makes a joke about what’s on the screen, and before you know it, you’re neck-deep in a two-hour contest of one-upmanship, seeing who can be the funniest, wittiest or (more likely) [...]
So it was a big Indiana Jones weekend. They’re saying that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull raked in something like $151 million from Thursday through Monday, despite mixed reviews. Me? I went in with low expectations and had a good time, and would rank it as [...]
There’s been plenty of hoopla this week as the world gears up to either be amazed or horrifically disappointed by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but to be honest, I’ve been looking forward to an entirely different Raiders spin-off. Crystal Skull was shot just last summer, but I’ve been waiting for [...]
By all reports, the big screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation at Mann’s Chinese on Wednesday was a big hit, but if you live out in California and couldn’t make it, perhaps you can catch it on Saturday for free (ooh, gotta love free) at Newport Beach. There’ll be a free to [...]
