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.
The film stars Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Ezra Miller, Alan Arkin and Emily Mortimer.
“City Island” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 26, 2009. Paradigm is repping rights to the pic, with several buyers believed to be interested.
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.
Directed by Ron Carlson and starring Gary Coleman as himself, the film has generated considerable buzz. Over the last month, clips from the movie have logged more than 325,000 online views and tickets to its initial four screenings at Tribeca sold out in two hours, prompting the Festival to add a fifth showing for Sunday, May 3.
A cross between Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” and Johnny Knoxville’s “Jackass,” “Midgets vs Mascots” is geared toward 18-34-year-old males. In a test screening last November, the film’s scores came back 20 percent higher than the average studio comedy. In head to head testing, “Midgets vs Mascots” also beat seven of 10 relevant comedies, including Jackass, Reno 911, Napoleon Dynamite, Bad Santa, Pineapple Express, Clerks, and Harold & Kumar.
“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.
