{"id":2789,"date":"2003-05-09T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T21:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T11:46:24","slug":"shiris-latest-project-the-undertow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2003\/05\/shiris-latest-project-the-undertow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiri&#8217;s Latest Project: The Undertow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the_insider for sending in this update!<\/p>\n<p>From indiewire.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUnited Artists to Release David Gordon Green&#8217;s Latest, Still in Production<\/p>\n<p>United Artists has entered into an agreement with ContentFilm to distribute David Gordon Green&#8217;s latest film, which is currently in production. The film, with a working title of &#8220;The Undertow,&#8221; will be released by UA in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, and South Africa, according to the New York-based distributor. Principal photography on the film, written by Joe Conway and Green, began April 8 in Savannah, Georgia, and will be completed at the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>Starring Dermot Mulroney (&#8220;About Schmidt&#8221;), Josh Lucas (&#8220;Sweet Home Alabama&#8221;), Jamie Bell (&#8220;Billy Elliot&#8221;), and newcomer Devon Alan, the film is about two present-day Southern brothers who run away from home following the death of their father and the subsequent appearance of their greedy, troubled uncle. ContentFilm&#8217;s John Schmidt and Michael Roban negotiated the deal with Danny Rosett and Mary Biebel of UA.<\/p>\n<p>Green&#8217;s past credits include &#8220;All the Real Girls&#8221; (2003), a small-town romance which won two special jury prizes at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed the critically lauded &#8220;George Washington&#8221; (2000) about a group of children set in a struggling small Southern town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are in the business of telling stories, and David Gordon Green tells exciting, evocative and emotionally rich stories,&#8221; said UA president Bingham Ray in a company release. &#8220;He and I have tried to find a project to work on together, and this one finally clicked.&#8221; UA hasn&#8217;t set a release date for the film yet.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2001, ContentFilm is a production and distribution company based in New York with a mandate to finance and produce director-driven feature films using new technology and low budgets. United Artists is a unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Recent UA releases include Michael Moore&#8217;s Oscar-winning &#8220;Bowling for Columbine,&#8221; and Robert Duvall&#8217;s &#8220;Assassination Tango.&#8221; Upcoming releases include Chen Kaige&#8217;s &#8220;Together,&#8221; due out May 30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the_insider for sending in this update! From indiewire.com: United Artists to Release David Gordon Green&#8217;s Latest, Still in<\/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":[3,2374],"tags":[11,1181],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leading","category-shiri-appleby","tag-shiri-appleby","tag-undertow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","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=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29227,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/29227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}