'Yuma' Saddles Up

“I don’t think anyone ever told me that the Western was dead. I didn’t know this,” Dallas Roberts joked at the Gotham preem of “3:10 to Yuma."  Lionsgate and the Sports Illustrated Group hosted the Tuesday evening event at the Tribeca Grand Hotel, with a small cocktail party in the hotel’s mirrored lounge before the screening.

The New York-based Roberts worked on the film between legit gigs, including his role in this fall’s Edward Albee play “Peter and Jerry."

“It was a lot of fun to shoot,” the actor said about "Yuma." “They give you your gun, they give you your horse, they kinda teach you how to use both. We’d stop the shoot and up there behind you was the Hollywood sign — it really felt like Old Hollywood.”

Upcoming “30 Days of Night” thesp Ben Foster was also in attendance, considerably more relaxed and saner than his villainous on-screen counterpart in “Yuma," while co-star Gretchen Mol, slated to attend the premiere, couldn’t get out of her prior engagement, however — her first child is due on Sept. 7, the same day the movie opens in wide release.  (S. Thielman)