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New poll time! And this time we want to know your favourite Emma Stone film. Stone is currently starring in the new Woody Allen film Magic In the Moonlight and currently filming the next, 2015 film, in Rhode Island. Here are your choices: The Amazing Spiderman Crazy Stupid Love Easy A The Help Superbad Zombieland […]
We continue our two part poll question about the best films of 2014 so far. This time we want to know what is your favourite big budget blockbuster of 2014 so far. Here are your choices (based on the top 8 earning films in the US at the time of writing): 22 Jump Street The […]
News bits! Our twice monthly round-up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler have been out promoting their new film ‘They Came Together‘. They were asked for their favourite rom-coms by Vulture. Here’s Rudd’s choice. Annie Hall is pretty amazing. A lot of the Woody Allen ones are pretty great, but […]
Sharon Stone can currently be seen starring alongside Woody Allen in John Turturro‘s Fading Gigolo. She also got her start in an Allen film, with a role in Stardust Memories. She has worked with Allen a few times, including voicing his love interest in Antz. Yet she has never appeared in a film Allen has […]
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 […]
Eileen Atkins is starring in Woody Allen’s 2014 film Magic In The Moonlight. In a new interview, she revealed how she managed to get the role, and gave some insight into working with Allen. The interview appeared in the Telegraph. In it, she reveals that Allen saw her in a play ‘The Retreat From Moscow‘ […]
News bits! Usually twice a month wrap up of Woody Allen news bits from around the web. Like everyone else, we binged hard on ‘House Of Cards‘ this week. In the press leading up to its release, Kevin Spacey is still campaigning to be in a Woody Allen film, according to the Wall Street Journal. […]
New bits! Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Elizabeth Banks is out promoting ‘Man On A Ledge‘, but in an interview with Starpulse, she let a juicy Woody Allen tidbit drop. You’ve worked with a lot of people like Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Ed Burns, is there someone […]
Woody Allen returns to London for a sprawling morality tale in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger. With a big star cast, he explores one of his oldest themes, that whatever delusion you can use to get through life makes you happy – or that ignorance is bliss. Playing out over the lives of […]
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 […]
November News Bits! Our twice-monthly round-up of Woody Allen bits from around the web. Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been out on promo, and has talked a little about working with Woody Allen on Match Point. In particular, the sex scenes. From the Independent. Woody Allen is a disaster when it comes to doing sex scenes. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Blue Jasmine opened in limited release on Friday in New York and Los Angeles. First figures are in and on the back of fantastic reviews, it has topped the specialty box office this year. On opening weekend in netted $612,767 in just 6 theatres. That gives it a per screen average of $102,128. It beats […]
A quick one: It took a long time for You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger to hit Australian cinemas, but the 2010 film was finally given a short run earlier this year. Now the Blu-Ray and DVDs have been released in Australia. The disc releases, like the theatrical release, was greeted with little promotion. […]
Allen’s latest, Blue Jasmine, didn’t make it to Cannes this year. But the actor will return to the city in a couple of months to make his 2014 film. With the wrap up of Cannes 2012, we thought we’d revisit some old interviews with Allen at Cannes. We settled on a series of interviews from […]
There’s been reports on talks and verbal confirmations, but today we now have our first official information on Woody Allen’s 2014 film. Emma Stone and Colin Firth‘s casting is set, as well as the location, genre, some of the crew and other small details and hints. Here’s the officially released statement. Woody Allen’s new, untitled […]
Woody Allen Bits: Our twice monthly round up of bits from around the web. Judy Davis is one of the great Woody Allen actresses. She has helped to define Allen’s legacy with some of the most electrifying performances in any of his films – in particular Husbands And Wives and Deconstructing Harry. She sat down […]
Our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen news bits from around the web. Wallace Shawn has appeared in over 150 films, and his latest is ‘Admission‘ with Tina Fey. He has also appeared in many of Allen’s films, but none more famous than in Manhattan, where he made a cameo as Diane Keaton‘s ex […]
Woody Allen loves improvisation. He usually let’s his actors brings his own words to the table, and he is known to do multiple takes of jokes with different punchlines. His love of the Marx Brothers is also on show in the way he improvises his physical humour. It’s one of those physical scenes that is […]