From that piece:

The filmmakers behind the upcoming music-themed feature CBGB are aiming to keep the rock flame alive with a biopic on Gregg Allman.

Randall Miller and Jody Savin have picked up the rights to My Cross to Bear, Allmanâ€s New York Times best-selling memoir co-written with Alan Light.

Savin and Miller will write the screenplay for the movie, and Miller will direct. The duo will produce via their Unclaimed Freight banner along with their music biz partner Brad Rosenberger.

Allman has had an extraordinary life — from phenomenal success as a musician to multiple marriages, including to Cher, and personal tragedy with the deaths of his brother Duane and bandmate Berry Oakley.

CBGB is moving ahead in post-production, and several official posters have been released. So it looks like the film will be released later this year sometime.

As with any movie news, there’s an element of uncertainty in all this. Miller and Savin have previously been slated to make Caribou , the story of Caribou Records that I posted about in January, and The Drummer, a biopic about Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, which was slated to star Rupert Grint. Given the vanishing entry on IMDB, it seems like The Drummer is dead. Caribou has possibly just been delayed.

It’s obviously too early to know if the Gregg Allman pic will shoot in Savannah, but Allman lives in the area much of the year and the filmmakers have a history here.

Now the filmmakers are moving forward with another movie about the music industry. From The Hollywood Reporter’s “CBGB” Filmmakers to Tell Story of Famed Caribou Records (Exclusive):

After wrapping their rock feature CBGB, Randall Miller and Jody Savin are hoping to keep the music going with a new music-themed project, this one on famed recording studio Caribou Records.

Miller and Savin will write the script with Miller directing the project. It will produce via their Unclaimed Freight banner along with Brad Rosenberger, their music business partner.

Titled Caribou Records, the movie will aim to tell the story of the music studio run by James William Guercio in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.

Elton John’s album Caribou was named for the studio. Other artists who recorded there included Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Joe Walsh, Chicago, and The Beach Boys.

There were hopes that Unclaimed Freight’s next project would be The Drummer, a story about The Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson that seemed likely to film in Savannah.

Here’s a shot I took of Johnny Galecki as Terry Ork during last summer’s filming of CBGB:

Click here for more info on that photo and on Terry Ork.