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InsIder’s P.O.V.
14 DISTRIBUTION 62 DV FILMMAKING 46 Frank Spotnitz Wants to Believe
Hooray for Hoodywood! That’s no Moon; It’s a Styrofoam Writer/producer Frank Spotnitz talks about The
Does the amazing box-office success of Adulthood Lunch Container X-Files series, the forthcoming movie The X-Files:
augur the dawn of a vital new popular British How to build, light and composite your way to a I Want to Believe and being blamed for 9/11.
cinema or merely a return to the largely forgotten low-budget sci-fi epic that will make your nerd By Chris Patmore
B-movie byways of the 1960s and 1970s? friends lose control of their bodily functions.
By Mick Southworth & Martin McCabe By James & Robert Dastoli
54 Doug Jones: The Masks that Reveal
The masks of the Greek god Dionysos are said to
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reveal as much as they conceal and this truism
How to Ruin a Script
seems particularly apt with regard to the career of
The sometimes uneasy truce between the writer Case studIes
Doug Jones, who recreates the role of Abe Sapien
and the director doesn’t necessarily have to end in
in Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
war. Ron Oliver discusses how it can work on the
By Michael Guillén
emotional Gaza Strip of filmmaking.
08 Breakthrough Brits
By Ron Oliver
Britain’s got talent, all right. But a high-end honour
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programme created by the UKFC suggests that it’s
Unleashing Hell… Weather Permitting
the US that will make better use of it.
Screenwriter David Lemon recalls how his first
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By Liz Hobbs
feature, Faintheart, made it from script to screen
Selma Blair: Modest, Versatile and on Fire! with a little help from MySpace and a horde of part-
Cast often and internationally, actor Selma Blair 10 Rob Cohen Redefines The Mummy time Vikings.
is surprised to have a successful career to which Taking time out of his crazy post-production, By David Lemon
most actors can only aspire. director Rob Cohen talks about redefining
By Colleen Patrick The Mummy franchise in the latest incarnation,
Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
By Athos Kyrus
44 WRITING GlObal FOCus
Writing and Rocking in the Rockies
The Annual Banff World Television Festival
26 Nolan, Bale and The Dark Knight
For many writers and producers, the end of the TV
Director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale 18 The Pope’s Toilet
rainbow is nestled in the heart of the Canadian
talk about Heath Ledger, Gotham and shooting Oscar
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-nominated Uruguayan cinematographer
Rockies at the Banff International Television Festival.
what looks to be the best blockbuster of the year, César Charlone talks lavvies, knickers,
By Rick Drew
The Dark Knight. psychoanalysis and his first feature: the award-
By Will Lawrence winning El Baño del Papa (The Pope’s Toilet).
By Adam Thursby
52 PRODUCING 34 Seeing RED
Going Indie… Again! “RED is going to change everything.” This bold 58 Santosh Sivan’s Visual Language
Richard Perello examines the pros and cons of statement by Steven Soderbergh heralding the The multi award-winning Indian cinematographer
independent versus studio production, as he arrival of the RED ONE™ camera was seen by some talks about his latest film, Before the Rains—
and Broken Lizard finalise their latest feature, as prophetic, by others as hype. We finally got the a period drama and his first English language
The Slammin’ Salmon. chance to test it ourselves. film as director.
By Richard Perello By Stephen Webb By Chris Patmore
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