Low budget filmmaker George Gallo has gathered some former players in Giovanni Ribisi (from the just completed Middle Men) and Selma Blair (My Mom’s New Boyfriend) and added Amy Smart and Jason Lee to the fold in an indie thriller that was co-written with Kevin Pollak (the actor also has a role in the film – he wrote himself a concierge part).
To be filmed in Los Angeles, Columbus Circle is actually a Manhattan apt. set project which focuses on a reclusive heiress (Blair) in an upscale Manhattan apartment building who is brought face-to-face with her fears when a detective (Ribisi) shows up to investigate a homicide next door and a new couple (Smart and Lee) moves in to that apartment. Oxymoron Entertainment’s Christopher Mallick and Blue Star Entertainment’s William Sherak and Jason Shuman produce.
Gallo has failed to make a spark for himself in the previous projects he has directed: My Mom’s New Boyfriend was met with a straight to video fate, his 2006 film Local Color has finally received a small theatrical release and he directed the docu-comedy DysFunktional Family which I have yet to see with good reason. The future doesn’t look much brighter with his latest film – about con-men and porn stars (Middle Men) which the director was peddling down in Cannes.
