Severus Snape and the Marauders is the prequel fan film that Harry Potter fans needed. I had always thought, if we were ever to get an official prequel, that it would feature the marauders. But no, instead, we live in a world where the next official prequel features the author of a Hogwarts textbook. Don’t get…
Recently, I gave one of my English classes a “Who is your hero?” writing prompt. Some students wrote about their parents, their grandparents… Some even wrote about Jesus Christ. For me, if I were to be given that prompt, I would have to seriously consider writing about Peter Hollens. I’m not even remotely kidding. Peter…
It’s been seventeen years and some odd months since Joanne Rowling revealed the existence of Hogwarts—and our entire wizarding world—to the muggle public. Since then, I’ve read so many pleas posted on your Internet (while muggle technology cannot function within the Hogwarts castle walls, I have been known to use it from time to time…
Back in July, Justin Zagri, the producer, writer and director of The Greater Good short fan film created an Indiegogo campaign to hopefully raise money to produce a second fan film, Severus Snape and the Marauders. The campaign, which had a goal to raise $39,000, unfortunately did not meet its goal. In fact, in only reached $14,000,…
In case you missed it, Frankenstein, MD, which I have been watching every week since I first posted about it, reached its season finale on Friday. Last Friday, being Halloween, was obviously an appropriate day for this show to come to a season finale. I continue to say season finale, because the story does not end where…
On Friday, August 1st, those attending LeakyCon in Orlando were granted a sneak peek at the first two episodes of the upcoming Pemberley Digital (the people behind the Emmy-Award-Winning The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Emma Approved) creation, Frankenstein, MD. Frankly, not using “Frankenstein, MD: IT’S ALIIIIVE” as the title for this article is a missed opportunity.…
Unlike The Greater Good and The OMEn Chronicles, which have 1.4 and 1.1 million views respectively, this fan film has significantly fewer views at 42,000, despite being on YouTube longer (since 2012). It’s called The Battle of Hogwarts, and the action of this fan film centers around (you guessed it) the Battle of Hogwarts from Harry Potter…
I love the Harry Potter fandom. Its fans are just so… creative. In trying to better organize the menus on this website (above), I decided to create (and expand) a fandom section. What better place to start than with the most-viewed Harry Potter fan film currently on YouTube. With close to 1.4 million views (about 300K more than The…
“The gaming world has changed. I feel it in the bandwidth. I read it on the blogs. I hear it in the chatroom.” Sound familiar? It should. That is, if you’ve seen the Fellowship of the Ring. It’s a parody of the opening lines, spoken by the incomparable Cate Blanchett. Upon hearing these opening lines,…
Ever since the release of the Lord of the Rings fan films (Hunt for Gollum and Born of Hope), I’ve wondered why a Harry Potter fan film doesn’t exist (the fan musicals don’t count!) and wished that someone would create one! Well, now someone has. It’s called “The OMEn Chronicles”, and it is not a…