'Man on Wire' adds related short
Jake Gyllenhaal narrates animated 'Towers'
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Beginning Friday, select screenings in L.A. and Gotham will be followed by animated short "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers," based on Mordicai Gerstein's Caldecott Award-winning children's book.
The 2005 short is narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal and, like "Man on Wire," centers on Philippe Petit's 1974 wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
"The Man Who Walked Between the Towers" will screen after showings of "Man on Wire" at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles and Landmark's Sunshine Cinema in New York City.
Magnolia Pictures, distrib of "Man on Wire," hopes the short will broaden the doc's appeal to family auds. "Man on Wire" just topped $1.5 million at the box office, making it one of the top-grossing docs of the year to date.
