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Conklin: Producer shows Hollywood types some local sights

The Wisconsin State Journal - Page Two - A2
Thursday, August 16, 2007 - Melanie Conklin
(Reprinted with permission)

Madison-based movie producer Nick Langholff helped make a dream come true for UW-Madison senior Justin Daering this week.

Daering, a Verona native, had saved some money and was trying to make a film, but things weren ‘t working out. So Langholff stepped in to help.

“We met at my office above Mickey’s Tavern and I told him that I get to spend whatever amount he has, however I can. I ‘ll hire everybody,” Langholff says. “And I guaranteed him, It will feel like you ‘re spending three to four times the amount.’”

It so happened Langholff is writing a movie script with Darren Burrows (Ed Chigliak of “Northern Exposure “), so he coordinated a visit this week from Burrows and another actor he ’s worked with, Randy Wayne (Luke Duke from the “The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning”).

Langholff put these Hollywood friends and his high-caliber crew under Daering ’s direction, filming a short film noir called “Shadow of the Night ” at Crave and at a house on West Dayton Street.

“Four days later (Daering’s) still numb,” says Langholff, who spent five years as the house manager at American Players Theatre.

Langholff took Burrows and Wayne to APT for opening night of “The Night of the Iguana” last weekend and says, “They came prepared with a lot of questions about the theater and how it could survive — and by the time they walked up the hill, they were already saying it was one of their most beautiful evenings of the summer. They both thought the quality of acting here was so outstanding.”

“Madison” nears completion

The trailer for Langholff ’s upcoming movie “Madison, ” filmed here in January, is posted on YouTube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l9YmGunGKXY

It includes intense scenes with APT actors Brian Mani and Jim DeVita, who plays a war correspondent returning from Iraq tormented by the demons of his experiences in a war zone.

Langholff says the movie is in “the final days ” of post-production as he and director Brent Notbohm work against the clock to finish in time for the Sept. 7 deadline for submitting it to the Sundance Film Festival.

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