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class=articleHead>Thieves take laptop with Smith photos</SPAN><BR><SPAN
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20, 2007</SPAN> <BR>
<P><SPAN class=byLine><I>By <A
href="mailto:alan.keays@rutlandherald.com">Alan J. Keays</A> Herald
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<P>The head of Edgewood Studios in Rutland is looking for the return of a
stolen laptop containing some valuable information, including unreleased
images of Anna Nicole Smith, the star of his most recent
film.<BR><BR>"There are photographs in there that are not to be released,"
Giancola said Thursday afternoon in a phone interview from the offices of
his Rutland-based movie production studio. "There is stuff that we have
that is just not cleared for release."<BR><BR>Police said burglars early
Thursday broke into Edgewood Studios, at Howe Center, a large complex of
offices and businesses just outside Rutland's downtown. Several other
businesses in the complex were also burglarized.<BR><BR>Police have made
no arrest. Although the thieves did not steal all that much from his
studio, the laptop contained a great deal of "proprietary material,"
including future movie scripts, plot lines, phone numbers and e-mail
addresses, Giancola said.<BR><BR>The laptop also contained unreleased
photos of Smith, who before her death of a drug overdose in February
played a starring a role in the studio's soon-to-be-released movie,
"Illegal Aliens."<BR><BR>"We're trying to find the laptop because it has
material that has proprietary information to Edgewood Studios," Giancola
said. "We're really hoping to get that laptop back because of the
copyrighted material that was on it."<BR><BR>"Illegal Aliens" is set to be
released on DVD next month. The movie, filmed in September 2005 in
Rutland, has generated international interest following the media
attention that accompanied Smith's death.<BR><BR>"What we're most
concerned about is 'Illegal Aliens' kind of stuff, and that movie is not
being released until May 1," Giancola said. "There's another movie called
'Zombie Town' and that movie's not going to be released probably until
Halloween and there's material from that on (the laptop) and we don't want
that out there, either."<BR><BR>Surveillance video suggested the burglars
did not target the laptop for theft because of its connection to
Smith.<BR><BR>Instead, Giancola said, it appeared the burglars were on a
"drunken rampage," smashing the front door and two inside doors at the
studio.<BR><BR>Giancola said the value of the stolen items and the cost of
repairing damage would amount to a couple of thousand dollars. However, he
said, a dollar amount cannot be placed on the value of the "proprietary
material" that was on the stolen laptop, including the Smith
photos.<BR><BR>"The intellectual property is way more valuable than any of
the physical equipment we have," Giancola said.<BR><BR>Contact Alan J.
Keays at <A
href="mailto:alan.keays@rutlandherald.com">alan.keays@rutlandherald.com</A>.<BR></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></FONT></DIV><FONT
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