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"Inside" stars Emmy Rossum, Intel, and, maybe, you. We go behind the scenes of the latest branded filmmaking adventure.

Emmy Rossum’s hair is up in a bun. She turns from furiously typing on her laptop to desperately eyeing the darkened door to her right. And ... cut!

At this downtown Los Angeles studio, it seems like business as usual. A young Hollywood actress (Rossum is one of the leads of Showtime’s Shameless and starred in The Day After Tomorrow) is being directed by D.J. Caruso (best known for Disturbia and the recent sci-fi thriller I Am Number Four), whose cinematographer, Mauro Fiore, is among the best in the world (he shot Avatar for James Cameron). But instead of the usual clutch of studio executives huddled around a bank of monitors, whispering about the latest take, the group of suits on this set is slightly different: They’re ad agency reps with their clients.

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