Archive for May, 2010

Fan Film Podcast Episode 65

WOW! It’s been a few weeks since our last Fan Film Podcast. The reason for our absence? Just not enough hours in the day to do everything that needs to be done. Is that a good excuse? Probably not, but it’s the only one I’ve got for you. We’ll [...]

Iron Baby

Writer and director Patrick Boivin made this amazing Iron Man short movie parody starring his baby girl.
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“WHOA” is me

The articles I write for “Fan Film Follies” generally have something to do with fanboy stuff, be it video games or actual “fan films”, themselves, but this time is different.

AVP Redemption

Made by me Alex A. Popov for the purpose of entertaining the fans of both Alien and Predator franchises as well as to also share his vision of what an Alien VS Predator film should be. This one man project took over two years of my free time with a total budget of about $500.
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Legacy

A mysterious man holds a retired superhero at gunpoint. The former hero must replay an event from his past to deduct who the mystery man is.

George Lucas in Love

A classic fan film that for one reason or another never made it onto the Follies. We will correct that injustice by placing it on the site this day. George Lucas in Love is an independent short film that started attracting notice in June 1999 when it was passed around Hollywood offices as a filmmaker’s [...]

The Greatest American Hero

A revamp of the successful ’80s television series by Stephen J. Cannell, where an ordinary school teacher is given superhuman powers after receiving a super-suit by aliens. Unfortunately he loses the instruction manual and is clumsy in the utilization of his powers. Together with Bill Maxwell, an old-school FBI agent, and now a sidekick, named [...]

Mission to the Unknown

My apologies for the delay in this fourth installment of my Who fan film column – a couple of topics I’ve been preparing aren’t quite ready for publication just yet, but more importantly, the new season of “real” Doctor Who has recently debuted on the BBC (and BBC-America) after quite a long hiatus, bringing with [...]

Vox

Commissar Kurn leads a squad of men in search of some lost scouts. Only too late do they realize the scouts fate. A short science fiction film produced at the Rochester Institute of Technologies School of Film and Animation. The production was made in 10 weeks for a budget of $1200.
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The New Wave Of Fan Films

Fan Film Follies doesn’t normally make it a habit to link you over to other news sites, but we’ll make the exception this time out due to an interesting article by the United Kingdom online news source Guardian.co.uk written by Jane Graham. Check it out. Good stuff!
http://www.guardian.co.uk