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Let John Early Cook

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The creative team behind “Maddie’s Secret” takes its cues from 1980s TV message movies, Paul Verhoeven, and Bon Appétit’s Test Kitchen.

We’re foregoing this week’s newsletter as we break for the American holiday, but we leave you with a sneak peek of the Summer issue of Filmmaker, hitting newsstands and mailboxes very soon. Stay tuned next week for the cover reveal, another excerpt, and more digital exclusives. John Early. (Photograph by Eve Alpert.) On the first beautiful day in New York after a dreary spring of torrential rain and pervasive wind chill, my task was to infiltrate a tight-knit friend group. Over a round of ice-cold soft drinks at Chinatown’s Bar Oliver, the team that conceived the visual world of Maddie’s…

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