Midway Films, the team behind the 2007 Slamdance-selected meta-noir “Crime Fiction,” are back with the caper movie “Mulligan,” shooting in Chicago and Lake Geneva now through Aug. 28.
Reprising their “Crime Fiction” roles are director Will Slocombe, writer/star Jonathan Eliot, and producer Graham Ballou. The filmmakers met as University of Chicago students in the early 2000s. Anthem Pictures released “Crime Fiction” in 2007.
“Mulligan” is the story of two estranged friends who join forces to search for a half million dollars that their fathers stole from the Teamsters years earlier.
Along with Eliot, Christian Stolte (“Public Enemies”) and Amy Sloan (“The Heartbreak Kid”) return from “Crime Fiction” to act in “Mulligan.”
Also featured are Kaitlin Doubleday (“The Tomb”) and Dean Checkvala (“Harper’s Island”). DP is Salt Lake City-based Tyson Maughan
The decision to go into production on “Mulligan” was a quick one. “The larger projects we’ve been working on??Tennis with Jesus,’ ?Bad Boys Dankowitz’?have hit some speed bumps in the last year and realistically won’t enter production in 2010,” Ballou says.
