{"id":5591,"date":"2013-05-16T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2013-05-16T19:46:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:46:58","slug":"feature-film-savannah-set-for-august-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/05\/16\/feature-film-savannah-set-for-august-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature film &#8220;Savannah&#8221; set for August release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nFrom Variety&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/biz\/news\/ketchup-lands-u-s-rights-to-savannah-exclusive-1200481953\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ketchup Lands U.S. Rights to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSavannah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (EXCLUSIVE)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ketchup Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Annette Haywood-Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s historical drama \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Savannah,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d starring Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and set an Aug. 23 theatrical release followed by a VOD\/DVD launch on Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Five-year-old Ketchup made the announcement on the opening day at Cannes., where Fabrication Films is representing worldwide rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Savannah,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on John Eugene Cay Jr.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is set in the 1900s and centered on Allen, who leaves behind a life of privilege in Savannah to live off the land with a freed slave. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Annette wrote the screenplay with her husband Ken Carter. <\/p>\n<p>This is great news. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <em>Savannah<\/em> a number of times before, including <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/exchange\/2012-03-18\/feature-film-savannah-finds-its-first-audience#.UZUUAiv44X4\" target=\"_blank\">a short review in a March 2012 City Talk column<\/a> in the Savannah Morning News and some followup comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/03\/18\/savannah-a-lush-new-feature-film-jim-caviezel\/\" target=\"_blank\">in a post here at Savannah Unplugged<\/a>. Quoting myself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to include spoilers here, but the film was darker in its themes than I expected. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good thing. There are some deeply sad elements to Ward Allen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and to the story of Christmas Moultrie, the last child born into slavery at Mulberry Grove Plantation and later Allen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hunting friend and assistant. The multi-layered narrative doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shy from those dark moments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More recently, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?cx=partner-pub-5595881567027133%3A5763151785&#038;cof=FORID%3A10&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=haywood&#038;sa=Search&#038;siteurl=www.billdawers.com%2F&#038;ref=&#038;ss=1048j206162j7&#038;siteurl=www.billdawers.com%2F&#038;ref=&#038;ss=1048j206162j7\" target=\"_blank\">posted<\/a> here about <em>Savannah<\/em>&#8216;s screenings at film festivals in Charleston and Sedona.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this trailer:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movieweb.com\/v\/VImIxqTzRQG6qs\/embed_video\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A new trailer will be available soon &#8212; I&#8217;ll update this post when it&#8217;s out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1797487\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the IMDB listing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Variety&#8217;s Ketchup Lands U.S. Rights to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSavannah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (EXCLUSIVE): Ketchup Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Annette Haywood-Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s historical drama \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Savannah,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d starring Jim Caviezel and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and set an Aug. 23 theatrical release followed by a VOD\/DVD launch on&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/05\/16\/feature-film-savannah-set-for-august-release\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1013,29,1145,1146],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-16-at-1.23.17-PM.png?fit=440%2C279","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1sb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}