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Blue Jasmine opens in a week in New York and Los Angeles, and the cast has been asked about Woody Allen everywhere they go. We covered some of the other cast, and now we have new comments from Alec Baldwin and Andrew Dice Clay. Alec Baldwin spoke to the Independent. He’s also excited about Blue […]
Briefly: San Diego Comic Con is on right now, and usually what goes on there has very little to do with Woody Allen. This year, Woody Allen has managed to cause an interruption. Emma Stone is once again starring as Gwen Stacey in “The Amazing Spiderman 2“. There was speculation that she might appear on the […]
Woody Allen is currently in France, directing his 2014 film. But not one to ever rest, he played a gig in Lyon last night with his regular jazz band – The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band – as part of Nuits de Fourvière. Some pictures appeared in Twitter, there’s an official poster as well as […]
Anything Else is a film that should work. It’s modern day New York, it’s modern day love with interesting and flawed characters. There is plenty of pretty great one liners, and the performances go from pretty great to ok. But it doesn’t work – and it’s because everything in show here has been done better. […]
It looks like the embargo has been lifted and reviews are starting to flood in for Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s new film. The general concensus so far is the the film is above average Woody Allen, made all the better with a startling turn from Cate Blanchett. Let’s get into it! Excerpts ahoy! Here’s The […]
We have been following this story for a while now – the estate of William Faulkner suing Sony Pictures Classics for using a nine word quote in the film Midnight In Paris. The case has come to court – and gone, with Sony winning the case. For the previous stories see here and here. The […]
A really wonderful video this week. It’s a one hour long interview with Allen hosted by Mark Kermode, done for the annual David Lean Lecture, and held at BAFTA. The long interview was done shortly after Match Point in 2005, but Kermode is such a fan, and revelations come from films such as Sweet And […]
The press and publicity is coming thick and fast now, as we are a week away from the US release of Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen’s new film. Allen himself has granted a small number of interviews, but two new interviews today cover two of our favourites from the cast – Cate Blanchett and Louis CK. […]
Woody Allen is currently in France filming his 2014 film – an as-yet-untitled comedy starring Emma Stone and Colin Firth. Over the weekend, the crew filmed a number of scenes outside Nice Opera, which we have featured on this site (check out our stories tagged 2014 film for more pics). We have been sent a […]
Sony Pictures Classics have released the list of cinemas that will be showing Woody Allen’s latest film Blue Jasmine on the 26th July 2013. This initial limited release will be in New York and Los Angeles only, and will open around the US and the world in the coming weeks and months. Here are the […]
We are a little over a week away from the US release of Woody Allen’s 2013 film Blue Jasmine. Today we have a couple of new images, an Italian release date, a great new piece in the New York Times and more positive press reactions. Firstly the new images. These come from Finnish film site […]
More images have surfaced from the production of Woody Allen’s 2014 film. Taken from the weekend, these cover the crew as they filmed Colin Firth outside of Nice Opera in the South of France. UPDATED: These photos were sent to us by Téba. With these we can make a couple of guesses about the shots. A […]
With less than two weeks to go until they release the new Woody Allen film Blue Jasmine, Sony Pictures Classics has released a new clip featuring comedian Louis C.K. They also held a series of press screenings throughout the US (Boston, Philadelphia, etc) and we’ve rounded up more initial reactions as we wait for fuller […]
News bits – our twice monthly round up of Woody Allen bits around the web. Kind of a quite two weeks – maybe it was the holiday, maybe it was everything else going on in Allen-land! Jeff Daniels has been on the press circuit, promoting season 2 of ‘The Newsroom‘. But the subject of Woody […]
Briefly: Woody Allen and his team have been out in the streets of Nice the past couple of nights, shooting his 2014 film. The currently untitled comedy stars Colin Firth and Emma Stone, and the team were in the French town of Nice, in front of the beautiful Opera House. We have pictures from both […]
Woody Allen and team have spent a second night shooting outside Nice Opera in the south of France, for his 2014 film. We have a few more photos and a video snippet which once again show big crowds, dramatic setting, and a smidgen of Colin Firth. First from @The_Crystal Ship We can see Darius Khondji, […]
With less than two weeks to go until Blue Jasmine gets it’s first release in the US, we have more images, a great locations guide and more reactions from recent press screenings. Even more pictures! This latest selection features Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard and one quite arty shot of Allen himself. San Francisco […]
Filming for Woody Allen’s 2014 film has apparently gone on all week, but it is only today that we have the first photos from the new production. Allen and his team were in Nice last night, shooting at the grand Nice Opera. One of our readers Liz left this in our comments: Yes! We saw […]
The L.A. Times have published a new, lengthy piece on Woody Allen. Written by Marc Olsen, it features plenty of discussion about the new film Blue Jasmine, as well as new quotes from Cate Blanchett, Andrew Dice Clay and Woody Allen himself. Some quotes and highlights: Olsen does a great job tying together Allen’s recent […]
Just in time for our video of the week! Entertainment Weekly has nabbed an exclusive clip from Blue Jasmine, our first real extended look at Woody Allen’s latest. The scene is almost one shot, featuring a taste of Cate Blanchett‘s portrayal of Jasmine that’s been getting so much buzz, as well as co-star Sally Hawkins. […]