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Trek director Lin Tweets Support for Axanar By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) It's beginning to look like the Paramount copyright lawsuit against Axanar Productions over their multi-million dollar Star Trek fan film is getting bogged down in minutiae, much like Samsung and Apple did, arguing over … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) As we all know, Paramount is coming down hard on Axanar Productions, and their one million crowdfunding campaigns to make a professional-level Star Trek web series. But the legal action that the studio is taking may actually be more of a gamble than some realize, on … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Fan films are a weird world where those who love franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek decide to make films of their own. What started off as backyard filmmaking on a shoe-string budget, because you learned how to rotoscope a lightsaber, is now taking on a vastly … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) After seeing fan films Prelude to Axanar, Star Trek Continues, and even the unauthorized Power Rangers short film starring Longmire's Katee Sackoff, one thing is abundantly clear, in my opinon: We should stop calling them "fan films." They're actually starting to … [Read more...]
Axanar Explores Early Days of the Star Fleet By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) My goodness, how times have changed. When I was a much younger filmmaker, my short Star Trek fan film project "Piracy of the Noble" was very much made under the radar, for fear that Paramount/Viacom would ruthlessly shut … [Read more...]
