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TOLDJA! Emma Stone, Colin Firth Officially Set To Star In Woody Allen’s Next Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 30, 2013 @ 11:07am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Colin Firth, Emma Stone, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Deadline broke separate stories about Emma Stone and Colin Firth being set for Woody Allen’s next pic. Now, the Woodman has confirmed the news, along with our revelation the film will be set in the South of France. If that part of France stirs Allen as much as did Paris in Midnight In Paris, we should be in for a treat. Here’s the official news:

Woody Allen’s new, untitled comedy will star Colin Firth and Emma Stone. The Gravier Productions film is produced by Allen’s longtime associates, Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum.

Set in the South of France, Allen will shoot the film this summer, once again collaborating with cinematographer Darius Khondji (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, TO ROME WITH LOVE), production designer Anne Seibel (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, TO ROME WITH LOVE) and costume designer Sonia Grande (MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, TO ROME WITH LOVE and VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA).

This latest film marks Allen’s second time filming in France and his eighth set in Europe. His previous European films are: TO ROME WITH LOVE (Rome), MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Paris), YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (London), VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (Barcelona), CASSANDRA’S DREAM (London), SCOOP (London) and MATCH POINT (London).

Allen’s upcoming film, BLUE JASMINE, will be released on July 26 by Sony Pictures Classics.

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Colin Firth In Talks For Male Lead In Woody Allen’s Next

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 3:46pm PDTTags: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, The Secret Service, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After locking in Emma Stone as the female lead, Woody Allen is in talks with Colin Firth to play the male lead in his next film. The untitled pic will shoot in the South of France, I’m told. … Read More »

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Emma Stone In Talks For Woody Allen’s Next

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 5:15pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Birdman, Emma Stone, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

Emma Stone

UPDATE: Here is a bit more information on Woody Allen’s next film. I’m told he will shoot in the South of France. That country certainly worked out for him in Midnight In Paris.

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Allen has … Read More »

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R.I.P. Mickey Rose

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 11, 2013 @ 1:19pm PDTTags: Mickey Rose, Woody Allen

Mickey Rose, who collaborated with childhood pal Woody Allen to write the movies What’s Up, Tiger Lily, Take The Money And Run and Bananas, died April 7 of cancer in Beverly Hills. He was 77. The LA Times obit says Rose, born in Brooklyn, met Allen in … Read More »

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Sony Classics Dates Linklater’s ‘Before Midnight’, Almodovar’s ‘I’m So Excited’, Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ For Summer 2013

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 7:34pm PSTTags: Before Midnight, Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen

Sony Classics will debut Richard Linklater‘s Sundance hit threequel Before Midnight on May 24, 2013 in New York and Los Angeles, Exhibitor Relations announced Wednesday via Twitter. The … Read More »

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Barker & Bernard Get Their Annual Woody: SPC Locks Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 8:33am PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Michael Barker, Sony Pictures Classics, Tom Bernard, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: This hardly qualifies as a cliffhanger, but Sony Pictures Classics has formalized a deal for North American rights to Blue Jasmine, the next film written and directed by Woody Allen. SPC partners Michael Barker and Tom Bernard make this their sixth picture and fourth in a row with The Woodman. That includes From Rome With Love and Midnight In Paris, the latest in Allen’s picture postcard tour of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Blue Jasmine, for which Allen returned to his old Gotham haunt to shoot, stars Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg. It is the story of the final stages of an acute crisis and a life of a fashionable New York housewife. The film is produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Edward Walson, and the deal was made by Gravier Productions. Read More »

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Sony Classics Wants ‘Midnight In Paris’ Suit Dismissed Or Moved To New York

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday December 20, 2012 @ 11:32am PSTTags: Midnight In Paris, Sony Pictures Classics, William Faulkner, Woody Allen

Well that’s no surprise – Sony Pictures Classics has moved to have a lawsuit over a William Faulkner quote used in Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris dismissed. “Plaintiff’s purported copyright infringement claim does not survive … Read More »

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UPDATE: Sony Classics Fires Back Over ‘Midnight In Paris’ Lawsuit

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday October 26, 2012 @ 1:45pm PDTTags: Sony Pictures Classics, William Faulkner, Woody Allen

UPDATE, 1:45 PM: One day after the rightsholder to the work of William Faulkner filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sony Pictures Classics over a quote used in Woody Allen’s  2011 film Midnight In Paris, the studio responded:

“This is a frivolous lawsuit and we are confident we will prevail in defending it. There is no question this brief reference (10 words) to a quote from a public speech Faulkner gave constitutes fair use and any claim to the contrary is without merit.” – Ann Boyd, SVP Global Communications Sony Pictures Entertainment.

PREVIOUSLY, OCT. 25, 4:22 PM: The rights holders to William Faulkner’s work say Sony Pictures Classics had no right to use a quote from the author’s Requiem For A Nun in Woody Allen’s2011 film Midnight In Paris. Faulkner Literary Rights filed suit (read it here) today against the studio in U.S. District Court in Mississippi for copyright infringement, commercial appropriation and violation of the Lanham Act. “Sony’s actions in distributing the Infringing Film were malicious, fraudulent, deliberate and/or willful,” says the six-page complaint. “Sony did not have Faulkner’s consent to appropriate William Faulkner’s name or his works for Sony’s advantage,” it adds. In Midnight In Paris, Gil Pender, the disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter played by Owen Wilson, says, “the past is not dead. Actually, it’s not even past. You know who said that? Faulkner. And he was right. And I met him, too. I ran into him at a dinner party.” The rightsholder say the slightly paraphrased quote could “deceive the infringing film’s viewers as to a perceived affiliation, connection or association between William Faulkner and his works, on the one hand, and Sony, on the other hand.”

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Focus Features International To Handle Sales On Woody Allen’s New Untitled Film

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 13, 2012 @ 5:17pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Focus Features International, Woody Allen

London (August 13, 2012) – Focus Features International will handle sales on Woody Allen’s next and currently untitled film starring Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Emerson, Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Max Casella and Alden Ehrenreich. Principal photography on the film will begin in San Francisco and New York City this month.

Focus Features International handled sales on Allen’s last film, To Rome with Love starring Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page.

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QED Prepping John Turturro Pic ‘Fading Gigolo’ For October Start

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 9:48am PDTTags: John Turturro, QED, Woody Allen

John Turturro Fading GigoloJohn Turturro wrote and will direct the comedy Fading Gigolo starring Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis and Liev Schreiber. An October start … Read More »

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Hot Clip: Woody Allen’s ‘To Rome With Love’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 2, 2012 @ 10:46am PDTTags: Sony Pictures Classics, To Rome With Love, Woody Allen

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love expands nationwide Friday after a strong platform release two weekends ago. It has grossed $1.3 million at the domestic box office to date for Sony Pictures Classics. Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page … Read More »

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‘To Rome With Love’ Tops In Debut; ‘Moonrise’, ‘Marigold’ Strong: Specialty B.O.

By BRIAN BROOKS | Sunday June 24, 2012 @ 10:39am PDTTags: Kirby Dick, Kumaré, Moonrise Kingdom, Specialty Box Office, To Rome With Love, Woody Allen

European settings continues to be a treasure rove for Woody Allen. Though the opening weekend numbers are not quite as stratospheric as last year’s Midnight In Paris, the filmmaker’s latest To Rome With Love are nonetheless impressive. The Sony Pictures Classics release debuted in 5 theaters, grossing $379K on this side of the Atlantic, averaging just under $76K, Allen’s second-best in per-theater terms. Allen’s previous feature set in the City of Lights bowed in 6 theaters back in May of last year, averaging an astounding $99,834 and went on to gross slightly under $57M domestically. SPC’s Michael Barker said the distributor plans to roll out Allen’s latest more quickly than Paris, going “much wider” July 6th. “We think it will be great light entertainment for audiences here.” As he said just before the weekend, “It’s tonic for the summer studio films.”
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‘The Invisible War,’ ‘To Rome With Love,’ ‘Kumaré,’ ‘Stella Days’: Specialty Box Office

By BRIAN BROOKS | Thursday June 21, 2012 @ 10:36pm PDTTags: Kirby Dick, Kumaré, Martin Sheen, Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen

Two U.S. documentaries and two European-set narratives are among this weekend’s roster of new specialty offerings. Of the latter, there’s Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love, for which Sony Pictures Classics anticipates a warm reception following the success of Allen’s last movie, Midnight In Paris. His latest turns to the eternal city with an all-star cast. Veteran documentarian Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War debuts following festival screenings at Sundance and Provincetown. The other doc, Kumaré, which opened Wednesday, has been compared to Catfish (2010) in terms of controversy. Tribeca Film is rolling out in limited release the other narrative feature Stella Days starring Martin Sheen. Read More »

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Woody Allen Opens 2012 LAFF And Telluride Hits Hollywood As Film Fest Action Heats Up

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 2:34pm PDTTags: Los Angeles Film Festival, Penelope Cruz, Telluride Film Festival, To Rome With Love, Woody Allen
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After opening the 2011 Cannes Film Festival winning raves (and an eventual Oscar for Original Screenplay)Woody Allen LA Film Festival for Midnight In Paris, Woody Allen and Sony Pictures Classics dialed it down a bit for the North American … Read More »

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Comedians Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay Round Out Woody Allen Cast

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 4, 2012 @ 11:52am PDTTags: Louis C.K., Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

Deadline has picked off most of the casting of Woody Allen’s upcoming film already, but the Woodman has finalized the ensemble of the film he will shoot in San Francisco. … Read More »

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Michael Emerson Joins Woody Allen Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 1, 2012 @ 7:57am PDTTags: Michael Emerson, Person of Interest, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Emerson, best known for playing Ben Linus on Lost, has joined the cast of Woody Allen’s next film. Emerson will shoot while on hiatus from his new series Person Of Interest. He joins Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Bobby Cannavale … Read More »

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Bobby Cannavale Joins Woody Allen Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday May 22, 2012 @ 7:36am PDTTags: Bobby Cannavale, Cannes Film Festival, Lovelace, Woody Allen
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Bobby Cannavale Woody AllenBobby Cannavale has been added to the cast of Woody Allen’s upcoming comedy. He joins Cate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper and Alec Baldwin. Cannavale just boarded the cast of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and will star in … Read More »

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Alec Baldwin Up For Re-Teams With Both Russell Brand And Woody Allen

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 11, 2012 @ 9:33am PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Big Deals Film, New Line, Russell Brand, Woody Allen
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In separate deals, 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is reuniting with his To Rome With Love helmer Woody Allen, and his Rock Of Ages co-star Russell Brand. I’m told that Baldwin will be part of the cast of Allen’s … Read More »

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Woody Allen’s ‘To Rome With Love’ To Open LA Film Festival

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 12, 2012 @ 10:14am PDTTags: LA Film Festival, To Rome With Love, Woody Allen

http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/woody-allens-to-rome-with-love-to-open-la-film-festival/Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love will be the opening-night presentation for the Los Angeles Film Festival, Film Independent announced this morning. Written and directed by Woody Allen, To Rome With Love observes a number of … Read More »

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