{"id":18202,"date":"2021-01-13T02:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=18202"},"modified":"2021-09-30T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:52:00","slug":"fanboy-premier-night-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2021\/01\/13\/fanboy-premier-night-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"FANBOY Premier Night on The Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday at South Bay Drive-in FANBOY Comes To Life<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Reviewer Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Yeah I\u2019m down here at the drive in making sure my DCP works (digital cinema print). This is surreal,” ~ Ben Johnson upon seeing the South Bay Drive-In screen where Fanboy would premier.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Fanboy screen at the South Bay Drive-In<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Q: Hey Ben, did you get any help whatsoever from any “mainstream” movie industry sources during the making of FANBOY, even if they were local San Diego ones like from the SD Film Commission? If not how did you acquire things like pro video cameras and shooting locations?<\/p>\n

A: “None. Grant owns the camera equipment and I secured all locations,” Ben said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Always one to share glory Ben immediately offers how cinematographer Grant Reinero was integral in the making of Fanboy, both in its inception and its production.<\/p>\n

San Diego’s newly-minted first-time film-maker Ben Johnson has always been a leader. When I first met him he had rented the whole floor above Scolari’s Office on 30th Street in North Park and converted it into an open-bay communal live \/ work area for him and his friends with small rooms around the border walls. This was what appeared to to be a “collective” living arrangement. The Rooster House, as it was called due to the large image of a male barn fowl on the street-facing outside wall near the front door, was famous among the San Diego music scene and spawned many, many bands and countless infamous stories. Ben had its keys. But that was over twenty years ago. Since then the Rooster House crowd has matured and many have scattered to the four winds. Ben got a job working at The Casbah, San Diego’s ultimate small indy music venue, first as a barback, then as a bartender. Then one day I discovered that he was a co-owner of The Casbah. I was aware that Casbah head honcho Tim Mays had sometimes issued shares of corporate stock to employees because Andrew the doorman had been made co-owner years ago — genius move by the way, to make someone so integral to the bar’s success an ultimate beneficiary of its financial health.<\/p>\n


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