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Woody Allen continues his film-a-year streak, and is currently scouting locations for his 2015 film (his 46th by our count). He has been spotted again, as has Emma Stone who is set to star. Allen was spotted at The Coffee Exchange in Providence. Along with Newport, this is the second city in Rhode Island where […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Anna Berger has died, aged 91. Her 60 year acting career included plenty of great films (such as the ‘Taking Of Pehlam One Two Three‘) and TV shows (‘The Sopranos‘), including one Woody Allen credit – Crimes And Misdemeanors. You […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round-up of Allen bits from around the world (wide web). Arthur Gelb has passed away. He was a longtime critic and editor at The New York Times. He was the first to cover many future superstars, from Lenny Bruce, Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen. The New York Times has a […]
Woody Allen made an appearance at his good friend Barbara Walters‘ retirement party – Walters is retiring at age 84. The cocktail reception was held at the Four Seasons on Wednesday. Allen was accompanied by his wife Soon-Yi Previn. Vanity Fair had a pic. The Wrap also got some comments out of Allen. On the […]
In a clear sign that Magic In The Moonlight has definitely not been forgotten about, an ad ran in the weekend New York Times. The ad features, typically, almost no additional details – but we do find out a little about the crew. We have a couple of pics from social media: http://instagram.com/p/niZbOCjjku/ .@sonyclassics marketing […]
It’s poll time again. And with the release of Fading Gigolo, we wanted to see how it stacked up against Woody Allen’s previous acting-only films. With that – what is your favourite Woody Allen acting-only film. Your choices – Casino Royale, ‘Fading Gigolo‘, The Front, Play It Again Sam and What’s New Pussycat. Let us […]
News bits – our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Richard Brick has passed away, aged 68. He was an official of the Director’s Guild of America and a former New York film Comissioner. In his time, he also served as producer on three Woody Allen films – Deconstructing […]
News bits – usually a twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. However, we have a whole month wrap up this time around. James Rebhorn has died, aged 65. His decades long career includes ‘Homeland‘, ‘Independence Day‘ and one Woody Allen film, Shadows And Fog. We liked him a lot […]
We are launching our second ever poll. Our first celebrated Cate Blanchett, our second highlights her Blue Jasmine co-star (and Academy Award nominee) Sally Hawkins. The idea of these polls is to help people (and us) explore the films of people in Allen’s filmography. Hawkins’ is not a big name outside of the UK, but […]
Hot on the heels of several awards for Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen’s 2013 film – is out today in the US on DVD and Blu Ray. It is also available digitally across various services. The physical version actually contains special features – two short featurettes. One a look at the red carpet […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen news from around the web! We started last year, and looks like we will every year, by wishing Diane Keaton a happy birthday for 5th January. Will McCrabb always posts great, unseen pics, and posted two great ones of Keaton. As good a way as […]
Nominations are coming in thick and fast for Cate Blanchett, as award season kicks into high gear. In the last two days, she has been nominated for two major Awards – The Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. Her Blue Jasmine co-star Sally Hawkins was also nominated for a Golden Globe. Blanchett was also […]
Supercuts – they are surely a thing now. We’ve had several featured as our videos of the week. Huffington Post in particular seems to love them, and has a new one. It captures the array of styles worn by the women in Allen’s films, from Bananas up to To Rome With Love. There are no […]
Woody Allen turns 78 on 1st December 2014. His 77th year has been as busy as the 50 or so that preceded it. He released 43rd film as a directed (Blue Jasmine) and finished production his 44th (Magic In the Moonlight) in the South of France. He appeared in a film that was a tribute […]
This Christmas is quite light on new Woody Allen products. However, there is one new box set being released in Australia. ‘European Love Affair‘ collects some of Allen’s most recent and successful films of recent years. Hopscotch Films, Allen’s Australian distributor for some years now, has put the set together. It features three films – […]
The gang at Official Comedy have once again set their sights on Woody Allen. This time they’ve compiled a ‘supercut’ of every time someone says ‘making love’ in a Woody Allen film. And as you can imagine, there’s a lot of them. The thing about these supercuts and Woody Allen is he’s made forty something […]
We are a little over three months since the first release of Blue Jasmine in the US. Having opened since in many parts of the world, Blue Jasmine has just passed a milestone – $70 million global box office. The global box office for ‘Blue Jasmine‘ is $70,891,372. Noth America makes up $32.3 million of […]
The real VOTW we wanted was the brief but excellent Woody Allen impression by Edward Norton on last week’s ‘Saturday Night Live‘. Norton of course appeared in Everyone Say I Love You (doing a little bit of a Woody Allen impersonation) and the sketch was part of the opening sequence and also featured Alec Baldwin […]
News bits: our twice monthly update of Woody Allen bits from around the web… Jennifer Tilly spoke to Mark Thompson on The Edge recently. The podcast features clips from Bullets Over Broadway, and Tilly speaks about Allen and her experience making the film. Starts at about 2:53. Interestingly, she reveals that the part of Olive […]
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 […]