{"id":190,"date":"2007-12-07T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=190"},"modified":"2012-11-06T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T23:56:11","slug":"freakonomics-gets-a-cadre-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/07\/freakonomics-gets-a-cadre-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"FREAKONOMICS Gets A Cadre Of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When released in 2005, the book <em>Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything<\/em> created a stir with its application of economic theory to a variety of subjects not normally associated with economics. Now Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner&#8217;s book is set to be turned into a documentary under the guidance of producers Chad Troutwine (<strong>Paris, Je T&#8217;Aime<\/strong>) and Seth Gordon (<strong>The King Of Kong<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>But rather than hire just one director, Troutwine and Gordon have decided to collaborate with a number of today&#8217;s documentary directors to film various sections of book. Signing up to contribute fifeteen minute segments are Alex Gibney (<strong>Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room<\/strong>), Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (<strong>Jesus Camp<\/strong>), Eugene Jarecki (<strong>Why We Fight<\/strong>), Jehane Noujaim (<strong>Control Room<\/strong>), Laura Poitras (<strong>My Country, My Country<\/strong>) and Morgan Spurlock (<strong>Supersize Me<\/strong>). In addition to producing, Gordon will also contribute the films introduction and linking segments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">When released in 2005, the book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything created a stir with its application of economic theory to a variety of subjects not normally associated with economics. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/07\/freakonomics-gets-a-cadre-of-directors\/\" title=\"FREAKONOMICS Gets A Cadre Of Directors\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[3,14],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-coming-soon","8":"tag-documentary"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}