Actor and Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro, left, and director Woody Allen pose together at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York. The eighth annual New York festival opens amid a turbulent period in moviemaking.
Actress Evan Rachel Wood attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York. She stars in the Woody Allen romance as an impressionable runaway who takes up with a crotchety misanthrope played by Larry David.
Director Woody Allen, center, poses with the cast of his latest movie of "Whatever Works," which opened the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York. From left are actors Henry Cavill, Patricia Clarkson, Evan Rachel Wood and Larry David.
Director Woody Allen, left, greets actress Uma Thurman at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York. After making a string of films in Europe, Allen returns to New York with his latest endeavor.
Actress Patricia Clarkson attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York. She has starred in several of Allen's films.
Actress Debra Messing attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York.
Actress Mary-Kate Olsen attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York.
Director Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, attend the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival opening premiere of his new movie "Whatever Works" at the Ziegfeld Theater on Wednesday, April 22, 2009, in New York.
Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro and his wife, Grace Hightower, attend the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on April 21, 2009, in New York. The magazine hosts an annual party before the start of the festival, founded in the wake of 9/11.
Rapper Kanye West attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York.
Actress Debra Messing attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York.
Actor Chris Diamantopoulos, left, and actress Debra Messing pose together at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York.
Actor Larry David attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York. He stars in the Woody Allen movie "Whatever Works," that opened this year's festival the following night.
Businesswoman and TV personality Ivanka Trump attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York.
Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg attends the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York.
Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity Fair, left, and Anna Scott attend the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Vanity Fair party on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York.
Director Carlos Cuaron, left, and actors Diego Luna, center, and Gael Garcia Bernal pose after an interview Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in New York. The film "Rudo y Cursi" starring Luna and Bernal marks the directorial debut of Carlos Cuaron, brother of director Alfonso Cuaron, and is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Actress Uma Thurman speaks at a news conference to kick off the 8th annual Tribeca Film Festival, in New York, on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
Director Spike Lee, left, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal, second left, actors Robert De Niro and Uma Thurman, right, attend a news conference to kick off the 8th annual Tribeca Film Festival, in New York, on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.
Actor Robert De Niro, right, and director Spike Lee speak at a news conference to kick off the 8th annual Tribeca Film Festival, in New York, on Tuesday, April 21, 2009.