Tag Archives: Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Comes Home Saturday

A one-night-only public screening of the South Mississippi–shot fan-film phenomenon, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, will be held June 27 at the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Center of Arts & Education in Ocean Springs. MS.

Raiders: The Adaptation Fan Film Lands In London

In March, Fan Cinema Today broke the news that the famed fan film, Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation, was going to make its UK premiere in late April as a charity event in London. The gala evening has now come and gone, but fortunately, it was a massive hit. Three 12-year-old Mississippi kids [...]

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation To Get UK Premiere In London

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 [...]

New Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation Screenings!

If you love fan films or Indiana Jones, you have not lived until you’ve seen Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation—the legendary fan film made by three teens over the course of seven years. From start to end, they recreate just about everything from the original, from the truck chase to the boulder to [...]

Whole Lotta Lunds Make Indiana John & The Silver Platter

A while back, I wrote about Little Indiana Jones, which presented a pint-sized view of George Lucas and Steven Speilberg’s famed archeologist. It turns out that’s not the only kid-centric Indy flick out there—check out Indiana John and the Silver Platter, made by the Lund Family (and there’s a lot of Lunds—seven NINE kids!). Director [...]

Indiana Jones Parody Fan Film Hits DVD

Just last week, I wrote about UK-based Backyard Productions when I covered its documentary, Fan Films: What Are They All About? Now I’m writing about BYP again, this time because its 2002 parody of Indiana Jones movies, Doom Raiders, is coming to DVD on November 10. I don’t mean that they’re burning a few copies [...]

Dive Deep Into Fan Film Documentaries

There’s been a number of fan films that are documentaries, starting with 1997’s stellar Tatooine or Bust, but there’s been few documentaries about fan films. In fact, by “few,” I mean “one” and that was C.K. Hicks’ Fan Film Documentary (2006). Now there’s a second one, released by UK-based Backyard Productions just last week, entitled, [...]

The Gremlins Are Back and Taking Over Fan Films

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 [...]

Raiders: The Adaptation Team Heads Up River

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 [...]

Ain’t It Cool News’ Anti-Fan Film Stance

“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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