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Mega Man

Eddie Lebron’s epic 93-minute Mega Man Fan Film has arrived. Based on the Capcom Entertainment property Mega Man has been in production for over two years. The final result. Fantastic! MEGATASTIC!
WEBSITE: http://www.megamanfilm.com

Singing Iron Man Versus

Flying into US theaters Midnight on May 7th is Iron Man 2. I mean do I even have to throw out that little tidbit of information? Even if you aren’t an Iron Man fan you can’t help, but to find an advertisement in every magazine, television show, and website relating to the soon to be [...]

The Golden Age of the RPG

When you ask most casual fans or gamers what they’re favorite roleplaying game is, a lot of them will answer “Final Fantasy 7″ simply because it’s the only one they really know or even played. Truth be told, “7″ is the title that had people actually saying the words “Final Fantasy” in school [...]

Mash It Up

Films not normally posted on the Fan Film Follies are MashUps. A mashup is a series of professionally done film clips grabbed from a movie, television show, or a variety of other media and woven together to tell a cohesive narrative.

Independence Day 2

“Independence Day” recently dubbed “Greatest Sci-Fi Movie of All Time” by film scholars and fans.
When “Independence Day” was voted the greatest science fiction movie of all time, not one single person was shocked or disappointed.

Doctor Who Fan Films: A Primer

The sheer volume of fan films – in any genre – can often be daunting in this everything-on-the-internet age. Having recently re-acquainted myself with the Star Wars fan film universe, I popped over to TheForce.net and faced pages and pages of links and wondered to myself, “Which are the good ones? How many of these [...]

Ten Fan Films That We’ll Never See

I’ve been covering fan films for an extremely long time. And in that time I’ve seen some spectacular productions. Along the way I’ve also seen quality concepts that just couldn’t make it to completion for one reason or the other.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaption

After seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, three 12 year old friends, Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb, began filming their own shot-by-shot adaptation in the backyards of their Mississippi homes.
Seven years later their film was in the can.
WEBSITE: None

Fan Film Podcast Episode 64

Is anyone familiar with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon? The game is based under the assumption that any actor can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon within six steps. I was having a bizarre thought while editing this week’s Podcast and took it a step farther. [...]

10 Questions for Adam Manning

Although I’d been exploring fan films for several years, and had even seen a few Who-related ones, I wasn’t aware of any gathering place for fan film fans and filmmakers until signing on to the now-defunct Outpost Gallifrey website, back in the early days of this century.