"Married and Cheating"
A new romantic (?) comedy which De Felitta will direct from his own screenplay, to be produced by Lauren Versel and Lucky Monkey Pictures, who also partnered on "City Island". Currently casting and prepping.
"Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed"
De Felitta acquired an option on Marc Blatte's highly praised New York police-noir thriller and is adapting it into a screenplay.
"Untitled Caberet Documentary"
De Felitta and author/historian James Gavin are turning Gavin's seminal book on the history of caberet, "Intimate Nights", into a feature length documentary. So far, interviews have been shot with (among others) Jonathan Winters, Shelley Berman, Kaye Ballard, Dick Cavett, Joan Rivers, Liz Smith, Polly Bergen, Phyllis Diller and Lilly Tomlin.
"City Island"
A romantic family comedy set in the eponymous and oddly appealing fishing village located in the Bronx, New York. "City Island" won the Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and will open theatrically in March 2010. It stars Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Steven Straight and Alan Arkin.
"Sea Trial"
Based on the cult novel by Raymond's father, Frank De Felitta, the film will be produced by Fred Roos ("The Godfather", "Apocalypse Now", "Lost In Translation").
‘Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris
Produced by David Zellerford and directed by De Felitta in association with Hangover Lounge, “’Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris” premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in Park City. It has since screened in Milan, Sarasota, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, the Berkshires, and Newport, Rhode Island. The film opened theatrically in New York in 2008 and is currently available on Amazon and Netflix.
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A Simple Habana Melody
Raymond has recently acquired the rights to the novel “A Simple Habana Melody” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos (“The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love”). An epic tale of passion, music, political strife and loss, it is set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1920’s Cuba as well as the war in Europe in the 1930’s. He is currently adapting the novel for the screen.
"Buddy's Tavern"
A musical version of "Two Family House", which is being developed for the theater by De Felitta (libretto) with Kim Oler (music) and Alison Hubbard (lyrics). The musical has received workshop readings at the BMI workshop and ASCAP workshop as well as a reading at the Lark Theater Company in New York City, in the fall of 2007. It recieved it's first professional production at The Spirit of Broadway in Norwich Cnnecticut, Summer 2009 and won three Curtain Call awards, including one for De Felitta's stage adaptation.
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