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City Island, thy cup runneth over
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
If you haven’t sent your eyeballs over to MovieSet’s sitelet for City Island then please, by all means, get over there. Since my last story about this comedy starring Andy Garcia as a family man trying to find a connection with a son that he never knew he had (played by 10,000 BC’s Steven Strait) there has been six new video outtakes posted on the film’s video page. Want to see Andy Garcia get into a car accident? Sure you do.
There are also two vids of Garcia riding in a tram, one of him walking down the street and calling in sick to his work and two featuring co-star Ezra Miller sitting down for breakfast and getting on his sister’s nerves. These six slide alongside with the other 55 videos that the City Island team have been providing MovieSet showing what life is like for a movie production each and every day. And if you want more why not spend some time perusing through the 155 stills or reading one or two of the 143 blog postings by the film’s director.
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Julianne claps the board, Andy picks up the walkie-talkie in latest City Island vids
Friday, September 19, 2008
City Island director Raymond Di Felitta gives us our Friday quotient of director blogging by giving MovieSet two short clips of actors Andy Garcia and Julianne Margulies preparing to shoot two scenes. “Here are two charming and telling moments, showing Julianna in the one and Andy in the other, each alone–trapped–in the car trying to figure out how best to get started,” explains the director in his latest blog posting. “Directing via walkie-talkie is almost impossible and being out on the highway, with other cars passing and pointlessly honking at us, makes everything even tenser.”
One of the hazards of being a working actor is when the scene calls on you to drive a moving automobile. It’s hard enough having to have your hands full with a cup of coffee or a cigarette but it’s also up to you to mark the scene by snapping the clapboard yourself. You try doing that with all those things in your hands and while pretending to drive a car on the back of a flatbed truck and trying to remember your lines. Ah, the joys of working in show business.
“The process trailer truly is a weirdly clustrophobic filmic experience for all involved,” adds Di Felitta. “My DP, Vanja Cernjul, told me that the great DP Allan Davieu told him that he once turned down a script because he could tell that eighty percent of the movie was going to be the crew and actors stuck on process trailers and there was no way he was dealing with that; the film was American Graffitti.”
Read the latest City Island blog entry from the director and watch the two funny clips.
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Andy Garcia will knock your lights out
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Who knew that Andy Garcia was this much of a tough guy? Take a look at the latest video given to us by City Island director Raymond De Felitta that shows a clowning Garcia (in character) tell his new found grown son (played by 10,000 BC’s Steven Strait) to put up his dukes while the two are traipsing on the beach. Go look at the first video on MovieSet’s City Island page and see the battle commence.
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City Island roars on MovieSet
Friday, July 25, 2008
The content has been exploding for City Island here on MovieSet. The film’s director, Raymond De Fellita, has been providing us with a constrant stream of photographs, news updates, scans of the call sheets and more on the City Island blog.
We’ve got video showing cast member Ezra Miller doing some improvising while the camera rolls; how the director reminded himself to not forget saying good morning to the assistant director; pages from the movie’s script; and a video showing us a wal-thru of the City Island sets.
And there’s more…lots more! Make your way over to the City Island blog and let your eyeballs do the walking.
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“City Island” opens at MovieSet
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The latest film pagelet to make its debut here at MovieSet is for City Island, a new comedy that’s now filming in Queens, New York. The film stars Andy Garcia (the Ocean’s Eleven films) as Vince Rizzo, a prison guard and family man that unexpectedly finds out that he has a long-lost son (played by 10,000 BC leading man Steven Strait.)
When Vince recognizes the name of Tony, the son he had from a former marriage but never interacted with, on a list of convicts he decides to try and start making it up to him by getting his offspring back on the right path. To that end Vince decides to take Tony back to his home but not yet reveal his true identity to the youth.
In addition to lensing the movie right now the City Island filmmakers have been going to town blogging about their production. Here at MovieSet we’ve created our own sitelet for the movie and stocked it with photos from the shoot as well as the movie poster. We hope to have loads of more content and to keep you informed about this project as it moves ahead through its lifecycle.
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