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Issue #51 [Summer 2003]

Features: The Adventures of Guy Pearce
By James Grant
After much Hollywood success, actor Guy Pearce is still a feisty, insecure, hilarious bloke determined to go his own way.

Features: Cinema Speed-Dating
By Christina Hamlett
Just like speed-dating, agents and producers playing the field need to be wowed from the get-go.

Features: Improvising the Perfect Script
By Phillip Williams
"Naturalistic" writer-directors Robert Duvall, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Henry Jaglom let their actors in on the creative process.

Features: Robert Rodriguez’s New Toy
By Mel Rodriguez
His phenomenal success may have sprung from his days with a 16mm camera, but auteur Rodriguez shows he's still a rebel as he divorces film in favor of his new sweetheart, HD.

Features: MM’s Guide to Film Education
By MovieMaker Staff
From one day to one year, completion certificates to PhDs, London to Los Angeles, whatever your educational desire, the growing crop of film programs is making experts out of novices every day.

Features: Film School Perk Sheet
By Jason Mann
Where can you get the biggest bang for your film education buck? Find out which film schools are offering the most unique-and money-saving-perks for their students.

Features: Moviemaking Education on the Festival Circuit
By Bryan Reesman
From Arizona to Australia, "film school" is taking on a whole new meaning, as aspiring moviemakers have begun training in an unexpected venue: the worldwide film festival circuit.

Features: The 25 Greatest Girl Power Movies Ever Made
By Kirsten Smith
From Carrie to Chaos and Alien to Amelie, MM counts down the 25 greatest Girl Power movies of all time.

Features: Does Sex Still Sell?
By Belinda Baldwin
Women have really come a long way in the film industry over the past few years… Haven't they? The perceptions and the facts are alarmingly different.

Features: Kid Moviemakers in the Digital Revolution
By Gregg Rossen
Armed with a boatload of high-quality consumer digital technology and a few original ideas, thousands of young moviemakers are quietly reshaping our entire visual world.

Features: A Brief Interlude with Giovanni Ribisi
By Jessica Hundley
Despite the fact that he has been languishing in the camera's eye since the tender age of nine, Giovanni Ribisi is rarely at ease in the spotlight. Here's why…

Features: Parting the Wizard’s Curtain
By James D. Tocher
Despite what you've heard about all the technological advancements, taking video to film is still not a simple process. On assignment from MM, one "insider" gets some top transfer experts to reveal what makes their job easy… and a living hell.

10 Drive-In Theaters Worth Visiting
By Monty Mickelson
MM looks at the resurgence of a cultural classic-and discovers a few drive-ins worth the drive.

Features: Basics on Budgeting Your Movie
By Jerry Kolber
"Budget" comes from the French meaning "small purse." Big surprise. But whether you crunch the numbers yourself or hire someone else to do it, here are a few things you should know.

Features: The Economics of Oscar
Randy Nelson with Doug Atchison
Those glitzy year-end Oscar ad campaigns may seem extravagant, but studio execs aren't making any apologies. "When Oscar talks, the box office listens."

Notebook: MM Notebook
By Timothy Rhys

Letters: Letters
By Letters

Liz Garbus Gets Out of Prison
By Travis Crawford
With her new film, The Nazi Officer's Wife, Garbus shows she's more than just an Oscar-nominated documentarian with a knack for examining the criminal justice system.

Zero Day
By Ben Coccio
One young writer-director explains how to go from lousy temp job to award-winning moviemaker in two years or less.

My Time with Frankenheimer
By John Weidner
In the last three months of his life, Hollywood legend John Frankenheimer didn't just teach the author a few things about moviemaking-he taught him something about being a person.

Truth and the Tropics
Tim Rhys and Jason Mann
MM hits the beach for the Bermuda International Film Fest-and breaks out the barbecue at Full Frame.

Chicago
By MovieMaker Staff
Windy City moviemakers tell us why Chicago is their kind of town.

Tale of a Dark Horse
By Jennifer M. Wood
With acclaimed performances in The Believer and The United States of Leland, Ryan Gosling is one young actor worth watching. And on the eve of her screenwriting and acting debut, 15-year-old Nikki Reed still thinks she's just your average teenager...

Nikki Reed
By Jennifer M. Wood
With acclaimed performances in The Believer and The United States of Leland, Ryan Gosling is one young actor worth watching. And on the eve of her screenwriting and acting debut, 15-year-old Nikki Reed still thinks she's just your average teenager...

Academy of Converging Arts
By Timothy Rhys
One new film school is finding success by reaching out to a different kind of constituency.

Ross McElwee’s March
By Paula Hunt
Ross McElwee talks about his new project and how having a family has affected his career.

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This weekend at the box office saw Iron Man holding steady for the second week in a row despite anticipated competition from the newly-released Speed Racer, starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Susan Sarandon. The first movie from Marvel Studios took in over $50 million dollars this past weekend, bringing its total gross up to $175 million. Speed Racer finished second with a cool $20-plus million.

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