{"id":1813,"date":"2001-04-26T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2001-04-26T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:52:36","slug":"australias-sydney-morning-herald-shiris-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/04\/australias-sydney-morning-herald-shiris-new-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Sydney Morning Herald-Shiri&#8217;s New Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Megs for sending this in :) Follow the links to read the entire article :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Polson hotfoots American debut to beat Hollywood strike<\/strong><br \/>\nDate: 23\/04\/2001<\/p>\n<p>By Garry Maddox<\/p>\n<p>Australian actor-director John Polson is sneaking in before the looming Hollywood strike with his first American film.<\/p>\n<p>The teen psychological thriller swimfan85 starts shooting in New York next month on the eve of the expected film industry shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Polson calls the film &#8220;Fatal Attraction in high school&#8221;. Starring Erika Christensen (Traffic), Jesse Bradford (Bring It On) and Shiri Appleby (television&#8217;s Roswell), it&#8217;s a story of a champion swimmer who sleeps with a new girl in town then finds things going amiss. It&#8217;s being made for &#8220;under $US10 million ($20 million)&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Professing a dislike for the phrase &#8220;teen thriller&#8221;, Polson likens the film to I Know What You Did Last Summer. &#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do is make a smart, sophisticated thriller that happens to have teenagers in the lead roles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was on standby to make the film, which takes its name from an email address, while overseeing Tropfest earlier this year. &#8220;I got a call I guess two weeks later saying you&#8217;d better get on a plane.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Casting initially presented a problem, Polson says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Megs for sending this in :) Follow the links to read the entire article :) Polson hotfoots American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,5,2374],"tags":[11,899],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-roswell","category-shiri-appleby","tag-shiri-appleby","tag-swimfan85"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28690,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/28690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}