Tag: Tribeca Film Festival
Lost’s Matthew Fox Lands the Villain in I, Alex Cross
Matthew Fox has signed on to play the villain in I, Alex Cross, the reboot of the James Patterson franchise character with Tyler Perry starring and Rob Cohen helming the project.
Edward Burns has also signed on to play Tommy Kane, Cross’s partner.
You may have overlooked that Tyler Perry, a couple of months ago, took over a lead role in I, Alex Cross for Idris Elba — the crime busting psychologist Dr. Alex Cross. Opposite his virtuous Lost character Jack Shepard, Fox will be making over his image as the ‘childlike trust’ nice guy, taking the role of Michael Sullivan a.k.a the Butcher of Sligo, a brutal assassin who kills for kicks and money. After Cross messed up one of his assignments, the Butcher kills Cross’ wife and after that it’s game between the two. Sullivan is one of the best known villains in the Patterson’s novel series.
Marisa Tomei and Sarah Jessica Parker may Join the Indie Comedy Married and Cheating
Michael London’s Groundswell Prods. along with Lauren Versel of Lucky Monkey Pictures are circling Sarah Jessica Parker and Marisa Tomei to star in Married and Cheating, an indie comedy being written and directed by Raymond De Felitta.
The Sex and the City star, renowned for playing single relationship columnist Carrie Bradshaw, would play half of one of three married couples who are struggling to find happiness in the film, set in New York and Paris.
Parker next plays in New Line’s New Year’s Eve and The Weinstein Company’s I Don’t Know How She Does It.
The Wrestler‘s Marisa Tomei is also in negotiations to appear in the picture. Tomei has The Lincoln Lawyer hitting theaters this week, and Crazy, Stupid Love with Steve Carell, later this year. And she is currently filming George Clooney‘s political drama The Ides of March.
Idris Elba’s Legacy Trailer
Below we have the first ever trailer for Idris Elba‘s new action thriller Legacy.
When a military effort to tackle a British-born Ukrainian arms dealer ends catastrophically, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray lands in a military hospital to overcome the torture he was subjected to. After nearly a year, Gray returns to Brooklyn and moves into a rundown apartment to reflect on the inconsistencies of the botched assignment. But Gray soon gets caught up in another impossible mission: to expose the corruption of a high-powered senator on the verge of announcing his presidential campaign. …A senator who also happens to be his brother.
CITY ISLAND Poster and Clips
Today we have poster and clips from comedy “City Island,” directed by Raymond De Felitta who is is best known for directing “Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris” and Two Family House”.
Based upon De Felitta‘s original screenplay, “City Island” is the story of a Bronx prison deputy Vince Rizzo (Garcia) who recognizes a prisoner (Strait) as his grown child whom he sired with another woman twenty years earlier. He decides to be the young man’s guardian in Rizzo’s family’s home, but his efforts to conceal the nature of his relationship to the young man promptly begin to unravel the complex web of deceits which have worn the family fabric threadbare through the years.
MIDGETS VS MASCOTS Wins the Bronze at Tribeca
“Midgets vs Mascots,” a shockumentary shot in a style similar to “Borat” in which five little people and five mascots battle for $1 million apiece in outrageous competitions, finished third in voting in the Heineken Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
As described on the Tribeca Film Festival website, the film’s “hilarity and raunch… struck a chord with TFF audiences” and “is certain to shock and amuse.”
Announced tonight, the Heineken Audience Award is determined by audience ballot votes throughout the Festival, which included 85 features and 47 short films from 36 countries.
“The Eight Percent” At The Tribeca Film Festival’s Delta Fly-In Movies
Delta Air Lines , the official airline sponsor of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, announced filmmaker Alexander Poe and his film, “The Eight Percent,” winner of the third annual Delta Fly-in Movies national film competition. Poe’s film received the highest rating among flyers who viewed the film while traveling on Delta or online at delta.com/flyinmovies.
“The Eight Percent,” starring Ben McKenzie from the NBC series “Southland,” is about two former high school sweethearts who meet up ten years later on an awkward date. The eight-minute movie will be featured during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival’s Short Film Program, which runs April 22 to May 3 in New York.
