contact: Bill@BillLae.com Bill Lae: 818-605-9940
We at Fanverse produce and distribute entertainment for fans: fans of pop-culture, super heroes, science fiction, fantasy, myth, comics, and horror: “All things fandom.” --We serve the “Fanboys and Fangirls” of the universe.
Entertainment services include production and distribution of shows, movies, and shorts accessible by television, satellite, video and computer networks. We have shows in development for television, the web, and physical (DVD) distribution. Our independent movie, “SuperGuy: Behind the Cape,” was screened theatrically, distributed on DVD (currently available at Amazon.com) and was developed into a pilot for Paramount Studios. It is currently moving into development for an episodic web series. Since all fans are fanatic critics, we developed “The Couch Critics” which aired on TV in the Los Angeles area and is in development as a web series. For Halloween fans, we have DVDs, CDs, and videos for download. We also developed the “Halloween News Network” podcast available on iTunes.
We have many shorts available across the web, appearing on YouTube, Vimeo, Funny or Die, and on independent platforms.
Who are the producers? The Fanverse principals are Bill Lae and Mark Teague.
Who are the fans? This is a monstrous demographic with huge overlapping fanbases. Although it’s true that rival FANatics will go to fisticuffs over the most inconsequential matter because of blind passion (and that's good news for us), most of them enjoy many similar genres because of the uniting foundation of mythology, story and character: The hero’s journey. The latest offerings in any given genre may as well be porn to that particular fanbase. Pop-culture-media is now replete with these offerings: movies, TV, video games, comic books, graphic novels, etc. Fans, bloggers, gamers, role-players are all media-consumers in this digital age. Whereas “Geek” was once a derogatory term, it is now a badge of honor worn by the majority of millennials and millions of others. Geek was chosen “word of the year” in 2013 by Collins on-line dictionary. Indeed, many dictionaries have now chaged the term to mean: “A knowledgeable and obsessive enthusiast.” So, how can we measure the numbers of geeks? Well, we can only “geek out” using estimates and interpolation. We can but touch the “hem of the garment.” But all measurements point towards a demographic surely topping 50 million.