Total Film

''Total Film'', published by Future Publishing , is the United Kingdom 's second best-selling Film Magazine , after the longer-established '' Empire '' from Emap . It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. '''Total Film''' launched in 1996 and published its 100th issue for April 2005 .

Total Film picture editor Sarah Tully has been immortalised in song by The Various Assortments . Their song MST (Ms Sarah Tully) describes the band's experience watching The Godfather in unusual circumstances at a young Sarah's house.

Current features

- Letters Page: Send letters to totalfilm@futurenet.co.uk or write to

Letters
Total Film
99 Baker Street
London W1U 6FP

TF offer a DVD or other film-related prize to each published letter.

- ''Access'': Details on upcoming films including ETAs, vital stats, buzz and interesting trivia. Also includes Rumours - keeping tabs possible future projects; new posters; new trailers; Greenlight - films entering Preproduction .

- ''Rough Cut'': A medley of details on upcoming films, new releases, film events, new talent, interviews and fun stuff including The Abridged Script and How To...s

- ''New Films'': Review section that always gives director, release date, certificate, running time, synopsis/review and a verdict out of five stars. Larger releases also get cast details (main cast revealed in review for smaller releases), writers, distributor, separate synopsis, pictures and the Predicted Interest Curve that marks key points in the film and recommends that you 'see this if you liked...'. At the end there are summaries of unreviewed new releases, the best films still on release and UK and US Box Office .

- ''Main section'': Articles on upcoming films, people in films, retrospectives, The Total Film Interview

- ''Total Film Lounge (formally Spin)'': DVD guide including news, Q and As, reviews of new films, retro films, TV, books, hardware, games and soundtracks.

- ''The Total Film Quiz'': varies from week to week but generally includes rounds on spot the difference, recent films, superimposed pictures, connecting people and hard questions at the end. Marks are out of 50 and answers are readable with a mirror.

- The magazine always finishes with questions from readers at a film personality in a section called ''You've Got Mail''.

AMERICAN OFFSHOOT

In September of 2000 Imagine Media, a US division of The Future Network, Plc. , (the company that, at the time, published Business 2.0, Digital Foto, Games Business, MacAddict, Maximum Linux, Maximum PC, Next Generation, Official Sega Dreamcast Magazine, PC Game, PSM, Revolution, T3 and Total Games) launched ''Total Movie'', the American offshoot of ''Total Film''. A major selling feature was the inclosed DVD with each issue filled with trailers, game promos and short films. Some of the short films included the '' Star Wars '' / '' COPS '' parody '' Troops '', ''The Dancing Cow'' (photographed by cinematography great John A. Alanzo), ''The Killer Bean 2'', ''The Second Comeback'' and ''Paranoid'' (adapted from the poem by Stephen King - the first Dollar Baby ever released on DVD). In spite of a promising beginning featuring short, well written articles (including a column by Film Threat creator Chris Gore ) and issues packed full of information, the publication lasted only a total of four issues (#1 Sep/Oct 2000, #2 Dec/Jan 2001, #3Feb/Mar 2001, #4 April 2001) and in late February, 2001, Imagine Media, Inc. announced that they were closing the doors on six of their publications. According to a press release issued by the company at the time, the Future Network stated that closures were "designed to streamline the company's portfolio, reduce operating costs, pay down debt and enhance profitability." The UK based publishing firm closed a total of 20 of their 134 titles across the globe, with six in the US (including Total Movie, Revolution and T3) and six in the UK alone.

''Total Movie'' was then purchased by Versatile Media One who picked up where Imagine left off and published issue #5 in October/November 2001. The overall quality of the magazine was not up to the initial publication and massive complaints from subscribers about missed issues and missed DVDs flooded the publication's offices in Los Angeles. Versatile Media One printed a total of another six issues (#6 Dec/Jan 2002, #7 Feb/March #8 May/June #9 August) and the publication folded once again with issue #10 in September 2002.

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