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Write up in “The Wasatch Journal”

Little Hollywood Rides Again by Christy Karras in The Wasatch Journal - Summer 2008
We were fortunate enough to be interviewed by The Wasatch Journal after our panel at Sundance 2008. A quarterly publication, our article has appeared in the Summer 2008 issue and can be viewed via an online interactive flash link by clicking “Go” in the “Read our current Issue” box. The article is titled “Little Hollywood Rides Again” and is written by Chrisy Karras. It is found on page 63. You can also view the .pdf of the article by clicking here (large file and load time).

Note: Film is reference by working title A Monster in the Attic.
Second Page of Article by Christy Karras in The Wasatch Journal - Summer 2008
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Danny Daneau on 13 Aug 2008 | 01. Danny Daneau - Director & 02. Erica Harrell - Producer & 10. Kanab, Utah & 11. Press & 05. Madison Davenport-Actor & 06. Jake Johnson - Actor | POST COMMENTS

Monster Set Finds New Home

Danny Daneau
Director

Most films come into a region, put their heart and soul into building and creating, only having to destroy their work afterwords, leaving the only lasting record in the film shot. We are fortunate enough to not share that fate. In the center of town of Kanab, Utah is a movie museum / restaurant called Frontier Movie Town. After wrapping on our film, Cowboy Ted of the Kane County Film and Tourism Commission, arranged a crew of locals to drive to our remote location, 45min out of town, and dissemble our existing set. They then moved and rebuilt it at Frontier.

Monster Front Porch Movie Set at Frontier Movie Town

It may not look like much now, but this front porch set will be soon refurbished and made to look as it will appear in our film. This means the hard work of production designer, Alex Eastwood, and the rest of the Monster Team will not be forgotten. At least not in Kanab.

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Danny Daneau on 31 Jan 2008 | 01. Danny Daneau - Director & 10. Kanab, Utah & 04. Alex Eastwood - Designer | POST COMMENTS

Sundance Day 7 - Photos from the Panel

The New Incentive - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel The Panel - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Moderator Marshall Moore, Utah Film Commissioner - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Scott Uhlfelder, Director of Photography - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Jake Johnson, Actor - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Danny Daneau - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Cowboy Ted Hallisey, Executive Director Kane County Of�ce of Tourism & Film - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Daneau next to Phil Peters of the University of Central Florida School of Film and Digital Media - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Producer Erica Harrell listens with Daneau - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Adam Rasumssen, our 2nd Assistant Camera and native Utahian, attends Forum - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Uhlfelder and Johnson - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Daneau, Peters, and Hallisey - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Utah Film Commissioner Marshall Moore Moderates - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Monster PA Brant Reinhart Journeys from Salt Lake City to Attend the Panel - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel Uhlfelder, Harrell, Johnson, Daneau, and Peters Pose for Press Photos after the Event - A Monster in the Attic / Utah Film Panel

Danny Daneau on 25 Jan 2008 | 01. Danny Daneau - Director & 02. Erica Harrell - Producer & 10. Kanab, Utah & 11. Press & 06. Jake Johnson - Actor | POST COMMENTS

Behind the Scenes Photo

Danny Daneau
Director

Our first behind the scenes photograph.
Davenport Waits for Action

In this photograph, Madison Davenport waits for action on location at the Grand Staircase Escalate National Monument in Kane County Utah.
(Photo by Barry Glazier, Copyright A MONSTER IN THE ATTIC LLC 2007)

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Danny Daneau on 29 Nov 2007 | 01. Danny Daneau - Director & 10. Kanab, Utah & 08. Production & 05. Madison Davenport-Actor | POST COMMENTS

Design Location Scout

Alex Eastwood
Production Designer

The Utah desert in February can be a mighty cold place, especially if you are a Florida conditioned person. Underdressed and overly ambitious, Danny, Erica, Eric, Bryce and I were standing in southern Utah deciding on where the story of A Monster in the Attic was going to be told.

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Alex and Erica studying map. For all the complexities that this film has, its heart is a story that is based on minimalism. It is a story of two children surviving under bleak circumstances, having to live each day in bare preparation for the next, and doing all of this framed in the ever important third character of this film; the geography of southern Utah.

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With our limited budget for scouting, the five of us had one weekend to decide where the entire story of this film was going to take place. While we were out there we exhausted all the resources we had in trying to find all the locations that were described in the script. This included all the interiors that take place in the children’s house, an abandoned farmhouse in the middle of the red rock desert, and all the exterior locations surrounding.

The Kane County Office of Tourism and Film Commission was wonderful in providing us with ample information of the surrounding area. Southern Utah is a gorgeous place and once we drove around and explored this backdrop we were quickly checking exterior locations off of our list. The next great treasure we came across was a place in Kanab called the Heritage House. It is a historical house in the town whose architecture and lifestyle has been preserved since the turn of the century. We were amazed. It was absolutely perfect for all of our interior shots. It almost seemed that the script was written with this place in mind, however, this was the first time any one of us had ever seen it. We knew we had found all of our interiors, but the outside architecture, coupled with the fact that it was located in downtown Kanab, was not going to help us with our exterior house scenes.

Heritage House Winter 2006

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Danny Daneau on 23 Nov 2007 | 07. Preproduction & 10. Kanab, Utah & 04. Alex Eastwood - Designer | POST COMMENTS

Behind the Attic Door - Video Podcast Teaser Trailer

Danny Daneau
Director

Today is an exciting day for the team here at www.theatticdoormovie.com. Below you can watch the teaser trailer to Behind the Attic Door, the video podcast series beginning in the Fall of 2008 documenting the behind the scenes journey of our film. The video clip is also introduced by yours truly.

Soon you’ll be able to subscribe our website to your iTunes, Yahoo Podcast, Podcast Alley, podcastready, and blubry accounts. This means anytime a new episode our video podcast is uploaded to our site, it will download to your computer automatically.

The Attic Door is officially mulitmedia.

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 Behind the Attic Door - Video Podcast Teaser Trailer [1:58m]: Download

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Danny Daneau on 02 Nov 2007 | 01. Danny Daneau - Director & 07. Preproduction & 03. Eric Ernst - Writer & 10. Kanab, Utah & 08. Production & 05. Madison Davenport-Actor & 09. Post Production & 13. Podcast | Comments (2)

Scouting Grande Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Danny Daneau
Director

We had the tremendous fortune to be granted the opportunity to shoot all of our exterior sequences on the Grande Staircase-Escalante National Monument. In September of 1996, President Clinton designated this to be first monument administered by the Bureau of Land Management, rather than the National Park Service. There hasn’t been a film crew permitted to shoot on these lands for decades and now we were granted full access.

Even after the first two scouting trips, I frequented the property as often a I could, trying to discover it’s most filmic of areas. I would never be able to cover the entire grounds, or even a fraction at that, because the national monument spans over 1.7 million acres of southern Utah.

Grande Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Danny Daneau scouts more of Grand Staircase
only two days away from production.

Map Grade Staircase-Escalante

Map of Grade Staircase-Escalante in relation
to the state of Utah.

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Danny Daneau on 31 Oct 2007 | 01. Danny Daneau - Director & 07. Preproduction & 10. Kanab, Utah | POST COMMENTS

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