 And for the Fox Network opening of the 2007 Allstate Sugar Bowl, Irvin directed "Dueling Musicians" shot on the streets of New Orleans (broadcast January 3, 2007).After directing several American-financed films in Romania, Irvin was invited by Romanian-based Mediapro Studios to direct "Garcea si olteni", a spin-off of Romania's most popular television show, starring a Monty Python-like sketch comedy group known as Vacante Mare.It became the highest grossing motion picture in Romanian history up to that time, beating the previous record-holder, James Cameron's "Titanic".