News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. This is the 81st edition! Jesse Eisenberg has said before that Woody Allen is his favourite director. He’s wrapped production on Allen’s upcoming 2016 film, his second with Allen after To Rome With Love. Eisenberg recently wrote a piece for […]
5 Films (And A TV Show) To Watch After ‘Sleeper’
5 Films (And A TV Show)… A new series where we recommend films referenced, inspired, influenced or generally like a certain Woody Allen film, from his first to his latest. All picks are subjective – let the arguments begin! This is the fifth in our new series to expand recommendations for films like Woody Allen […]
Irrational Man DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital Coming January
Irrational Man, the latest film written and directed by Woody Allen, has wrapped up its cinema run in most countries. And now we have first details of the film’s home release on DVD and Blu-Ray. The first releases come in January. The first release is the US. The digital version hits digital services (like iTunes) […]
Vittorio Storaro Talks Digital Filming On Woody Allen’s 2016 Film
Vittorio Storaro is the award winning cinematographer who has shot Woody Allen’s upcoming 2016 film which stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. He has also pulled off a minor miracle – convincing the notoriously technology shy Allen to use digital cameras for the first time. The results remain to be seen, but Storaro made some […]
VOTW: Woody Allen Fights New York Homelessness With Common Ground
Woody Allen has contributed to a new campaign with an important cause – fighting homelessness in his beloved New York City. He has teamed with the organisation Common Ground (who are now called Breaking Ground), who create a sustainable housing model for the homeless and gives them new lives. Allen spoke in a new video […]
Irrational Man Update: $20m Box Office
Irrational Man, the latest film written and directed by Woody Allen, is just shy of a new box office milestone. The latest box office figure worldwide is now $19,951,142 – just shy of $20 million. It should get there in a matter of days if not already. France leads the charge with a big $6.3m. […]
Si Tu Vois Ma Mère by Sidney Bechet – Midnight In Paris – Music Of Woody Allen Films
Music Of Woody Allen Films – a new irregular feature about the musical compositions that have helped to make Allen’s films sing. Woody Allen has loved Paris for a long time, but it took him over 40 films before he made a film that was fully set there. The result was Midnight In Paris, as […]
Shadows And Fog Blu-ray Out Now
Shadows And Fog is the newest Woody Allen film to hit Blu-Ray. The release comes from Twilight Time who have been releasing Allen films on limited edition Blu-Rays for the last couple of years. Like all their releases, ‘Shadows And Fog‘ is limited to 3000 copies. ‘Shadows And Fog‘ was first released in 1991. At […]
Nov News Bits 2: Jan Wallman, Diane Keaton, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Simon Pegg and more
News Bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Jan Wallman has died. Wallman was a club owner in Greenwich Village, and looked after venues where Woody Allen got his start. Others who played in Wallman’s early clubs were Joan Rivers and Barbara Streisand. The New York Times obit […]
Amazon Head Briefly Discusses Woody Allen Series
Production has wrapped on Woody Allen’s 2016 film. We are now looking at details for his next projects. The biggest mystery will be his much publicised 2016 Amazon Series. Announced earlier this year, Allen has been working away at his first ever scripted series. In a new interview, Amazon Studios head Roy Price mentions Allen. […]
Annie Hall Tops WGA Funniest Screenplay List, 7 Allen Films On List
Annie Hall has topped a prestigious new list. The Writers Guild Of America have announced their list of 101 Funniest Screenplays. Woody Allen’s 1977 classic with Diane Keaton tops the list. Allen had more films on the the list than any writer with seven. The award was presented by Rob Reiner (who appeared in Bullets Over […]
Interview: Woody The Biography Author David Evanier
There’s always a problem with writing books about Woody Allen – he’s bound to make your work out of date. Now we have ‘Woody: The Biography‘, a new profile on Allen that brings us up to date. In fact, there probably has not been a career long overview since Eric Lax‘s ‘Conversations With Woody Allen‘ […]
Irrational Man Update: $18m, France Overtakes, German & Italian Trailers
We are continuing our box office updates for Irrational Man, the newest film written and directed by Woody Allen. Over the last two weeks we saw another massive haul in France, moving the box office significantly. France has actually overtaken the US now. ‘Irrational Man‘ has now earned $18,130,850 worldwide global box office. France leads […]