Spring Issue 2010 Newcomer Matt Lohr Thrilling his Audience with The Zombie Movie! Inside: • From Potluck to Feast with Michelle Muldoon (pg 12) • Hollywood Scriptwriter’s Own Julia Alexander new web series (pg 14) • Stan Harrington: Not in it for the money! (pg 16) • Lightsabers, Zombies and Vanishing Producers with Brian T. Barnhart (pg 18) ON-SITE SPOT FOR FILM PRODUCTIONS Location… Unique Property Beautiful Natural Setting 60ft. Waterfalls Spectacular Views Available for location shoots Location… and special events. contact Paula or Jay Cell (951) 532-2708 email: [email protected] Location… Just past Riverside, nestled in the foothills of Moreno Valley, resides this Above all this is the patio, which not only grants a chance to view the location site that has so much to offer. This beautiful property provides pool, but in itself is its own distinct setting. 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Barnhart www.hollywoodscriptwriter.com or call (310) 530-0000. by by Joey Berumen Dedicated to Page 18 Alexandria & Jeremiah Charles - 3 COVER STORY Matt Lorh puts the scare back into horror movies with his latest “The Movie Zombie”. by Rick Gomez Many kids at 12 years old barely know “I started thinking, I would like to what to wear in the morning or what sport do this, and I can do this. A month later, to play, let alone, what career path to pursue. Goodfellas came out. I think (my parents) But for Matt R. Lohr, that wasn’t the case. knew I was not the usual kid just goofing For the past 20 years, he has worked around in a movie. I already started professionally as a scriptwriter, exactly what talking about it in a way I think they knew he set out to do when he was a young boy. he might want to get something out of Coming from a blue-collar family, Lohr this. Until this day, I tell a person that’s explains how movies instantly caught his my favorite film. It’s pretty much a perfect interest. piece of storytelling that’s put together. “A lot of people come to this I started seeing more and more adult profession through their background or oriented films and not just films that were because their family was in the industry. I for entertainment,” Lohr says. just picked this out of the blue, practically. The more movies he watched, the I’m the son of a son of a steel worker,” the more hands-on work he wanted to do writer says. “No one in my family is in the himself. It didn’t take him long before industry. I had no industry connections of he got his first script out. any kind.” He’ll admit his first wasn’t exactly Thinking back he remembers, “I really the best, but he knows it was very liked films. I kind of did it as an escape. I important in his development. got picked on a lot as a kid and I wasn’t “I started studying and reading on really popular when I was in school. I my own. I actually wrote my first script watched a lot of movies and I got into those my junior year in high school. I reread it worlds. recently, it’s absolutely terrible, but it had The movies that I remember seeing to be written,” Lohr says. that made me think this is something I might Lohr was born and raised in want to do with my life for a living was oddly Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where enough Dark Man.” scriptwriting is hardly a popular interest. By the time the movie Goodfellas came That might explain why he was out, Lohr had a perspective on films that picked on so much growing up in most 12-year-old boys would not have. Pittsburgh. “I remember watching it and thinking Matt R. Lohr Once Lohr graduated, he knew he of a movie as a movie. Wow, there are really had to go beyond Pittsburgh. In 2000, interesting things going on with the camera he decided to go to graduate school at here. There are really interesting things Chapman University in Orange County, with the way these shot are being put California where he graduated in 2002. Shortly after graduating, things together,” Lohr says.