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Blue Jasmine has wrapped it’s 11th weekend of release. It opened in the UK and France, two of Allen’s biggest markets, and with that, it has pushed the worldwide earnings to close to $50m. ‘Blue Jasmine‘ has now earned $49,784,982 worldwide. Leading the charge is France ($3m+), Australia ($3m+) and Poland ($2m+). Denmark, Greece, the […]
The planned Indian release of the new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine has been cancelled. Due to open this weekend, the release was cancelled due the need to supply anti tobacco warnings on the film. In India, scenes of smoking that feature in films and TV need to tagged with an onscreen health warning. Anti-tobacco […]
We never quite know how to handle the infamous scandal that engulfed Woody Allen’s life in 1992. For many people, even 20 years on, it is still the only thing that many people know about Woody Allen. The controversy involving Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn is a messy and complex affair. There are so many […]
Mia Farrow and members of her family have gone on record about their life with Woody Allen, in a new interview with Vanity Fair. Farrow and Allen had a very public scandal in 1992, which ended with Allen marrying Farrow’s 20 year old adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn. The article, due in next months issue, is […]
News Bits: Our twice monthly round up of Allen news bits from around the web. Sam Rockwell was recently interviewed at the AV Club about ‘Random Roles’ in his career. One of the roles they asked him about was his small role in Celebrity. He reveals some great stuff about that role, and that film. […]
Blue Jasmine has just completed it’s 10th week of release. It has passed $30 million in the US and passed $40m worldwide. The US box office has now reached $30,772,000. It grossed an additional $708,000 in the last weekend. It holds it’s place as both 5th in Allen’s career, and the 2nd highest earning indie […]
Allen returns to London for something a lot more light hearted and silly. Scoop is a murder mystery caper done for farce, and one of Allen’s rare comedies in his later career. Woody Allen stars as Sid Waterman, also known as The Great Splendini. An American magician on tour in London, he meets a young […]
UK press continues on this, the opening weekend of Blue Jasmine in the UK. We’ve collected a couple of the new interviews for our Video(s) Of the Week. Our first was posted by the UK distributor for ‘Blue Jasmine‘, Warner Bros. Most interesting from this is how specific the inspiration for Jasmine seems to be. […]
Blue Jasmine has been released to UK cinemas this week. To coincide, two of the big UK newspapers have published new revealing interviews with Allen. Allen also appeared on a BBC radio show. In the Guardian, Allen spoke to Catherine Shoard On having Bernie Madoff in mind. No. I had none of that in mind. […]
Woody Allen has been out and about in NYC again. This time, he and his wife appeared at the launch of the new store expansion from Hugo Boss. The event was held on 24th September 2013. Amongst the others in attendance were actors Liam Hemsworth and Josh Duhamel. Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn were snapped […]
Blue Jasmine has completed its ninth week of release. It was one of the slowest weeks for yet for the film, allowing ‘Instructions Not Included‘ to take over the top of the US indie charts. ‘Blue Jasmine‘, has now grossed $29,744,000 in the US. It earned $1,380,000 last weekend. It continues to hold as Allen’s […]
Blue Jasmine starts to roll out across Europe, and since the US release, there’s been several new clips released. The clips feature every member of the main cast – Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Louis CK, Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Dice Clay and Michael Stuhlbarg. There are several clips in this batch we […]
The soundtrack to the new Woody Allen film, Blue Jasmine, has been released. The soundtrack is released on Madison Gate Records, and features 20 tracks from the film. Madison Gate has handled the soundtracks for Allen’s recent films, including Midnight In Paris and To Rome With Love. The soundtrack is available digitally on iTunes internationally […]
Last night saw London be the latest city to hold a red carpet event for Blue Jasmine, the newest film written and directed by Woody Allen. As usual, Allen himself was not in attendance but stars Cate Blanchett and Sally Hawkins made it down to Leicester Square. None of Allen’s extensive British alumni made it […]
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web! Olivia Wilde was asked at the red carpet of ‘Rush‘ who she would love to take a car ride with. She chose Woody Allen. Click through to the Independent to watch the video. We would love to see her in an Allen […]
Blue Jasmine has finished it’s eighth week of release. It continues to track well, pushing past the $27 million mark, remaining the top indie film of 2013 so far. ‘Blue Jasmine‘ has now grossed $27,885,000 in the US. It made another $1,798,000 last weekend in 993 theatres, a 23.4% drop. It is a strong showing […]
A new image has surfaced from Woody Allen’s 2014 film, featuring the two leads Colin Firth and Emma Stone. The new image was posted on Twitter by Kenneth Edelson (@drkenedelson), a friend of Allen’s who has appeared in 15 of Allen’s films, from Alice to Blue Jasmine. The photo was taken in the South of […]
Woody Allen’s 2014 film has now wrapped. We don’t know much about this one, but we do know the cast. One is Australian actress Jacki Weaver, who spoke a little about the film at the Toronto International Film Festival last week. Canada.com posed the question whilst Weaver was in Toronto promoting her new film ‘Parkland‘. […]
Allen doesn’t love award ceremonies, but they continue to love him. It was announced earlier today that Allen is adding another award to his long list of achievements. He will be the next recipient of the Cecil B DeMille Award at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. Allen will be the 61st recipient of the award […]
This fantastic 15 minute interview with Allen was conducted by reporter and critic Bobbie Wygant, who is a bit of a southern belle. It’s wonderful to see Allen both as master filmmaker (as he is by now), but still cheeky and in talk show mode. The interview was done to promote Allen’s latest film, A […]