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Over the past few years, a number of actors have expressed their regrets about working with Woody Allen, including Greta Gerwig, Kate Winslet, and Timothée Chalamet. But for those actors who still want to appear in the 88-year-old director’s films? Mia Farrow totally gets it.

“I completely understand if an actor decides to work with him,” Farrow told CBS Sunday Morning. “I’m not one who’d say, ‘Oh, they shouldn’t.’” Farrow, who collaborated with Allen on 13 movies over the course of decades, also says she can separate her experiences on those films from the family turmoil that came afterward. “Oh yeah, yeah.”

Farrow’s latest comments are surprising given the former couple’s history. Farrow and Allen adopted two children together, Dylan and Moses. In the early 1990s, Farrow accused Allen of molesting Dylan. However, the Child Sexual Abuse Clinic of Yale-New Haven Hospital and the New...

Last week, The Hollywood Reporter reported that cinephiles were sharing “samizdat” links to Woody Allen’s latest film Coup de Chance from a French-to-Dutch-to-English translation, and New Yorkers were attending clandestine screenings at an East Village bar/event space. Today, THR can exclusively report that those who wish to see the 88-year-old’s latest project, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in early September to (mostly) positive reviews, can do so without slinking around or needing secret codes.

MPI Media Group will release the picture, Allen’s 50th theatrically released feature film as a director, for North American markets on April 5, 2024. A digital/VOD release will follow on April 12.

The movie, shot in France in French, stars Lou de Laâge (Respire, The Mad Woman’s Ball) as a self-aware trophy wife who reconnects with an old chum from the Lycée Français in New York, played by Niels Schneider (Heartbeats,...

Exclusive: Juno Films has acquired rights to the experimental drama The Same Storm, from writer-director Peter Hedges (Ben Is Back), for distribution in the U.S., Canada and the UK. The film will open at the Quad Cinema in NYC and the Laemmle Santa Monica on October 14.

Filmed during the Covid pandemic using cell phones and laptops, The Same Storm invites viewers into the lives of 24 characters as they navigate the spring and summer of 2020. With lockdowns, the Black Lives Matter movement and the looming 2020 election as key backdrops, the film explores the importance of human connection, family and love during a time when all of that seemed out of reach.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mary-Louise Parker (Colin in Black & White), two-time Oscar nominee Elaine May (Crisis in Six Scenes), Emmy nominee Moses Ingram (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Independent Spirit Award nominee...

Exclusive: UTA has signed actorJohn Magaro, who landed a Gotham Award nomination for his starring turn in Kelly Reichardt’s 2019 Western First Cow, for representation in all areas.

Magaro will next be seen on the film side in Celine Song’s drama Past Lives, opposite Greta Lee. He also stars opposite Michelle Williams in the Cannes-bound art world dramedy Showing Up, which reunites him with his First Cow director, Reichardt.

The actor is currently shooting a role in George Tillman Jr.’s as-yet-untitled George Foreman biopic for Sony. He recently played a supporting role in the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark from Warner Bros. and New Line, which reunited him with David Chase following his role in Not Fade Away.

Magaro was previously a co-lead in Eytan Rockaway’s Lansky, opposite Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington. Previously, he appeared in Adam McKay’s The Big Short for Paramount,...

Sondra James, a character actor who has appeared in film, TV and onstage over the past four decades with the likes of Ben Affleck, Robert De Niro, Christopher Lloyd, Mike Birbiglia and Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar-winning role in 2019’s Joker, died September 12 in her native New York City after a five-month battle with lung cancer. She was 82.

The news was confirmed Monday by her manager Carolyn Anthony of Anthony & Associates Ltd.

James, made her feature film debut in Woody Allen’s 1995 pic Mighty Aphrodite, setting off a string of big-screen acting and voice credits that included Alfie, Taking Woodstock, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dictator, Robots, Don’t Think Twice, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Climb and as Dr. Sally in Todd Phillips’ Joker.

Her last film credit is a role in the George Clooney-directed The Tender Bar, starring Affleck and Lloyd and due out next year.

On TV, James’ credits included Law & Order,...

As both a tentpole and an artifact, the new James Bond movie now belongs to the increasingly voracious Jeff Bezos. Most of it, anyway.

In acquiring MGM for $8.45 billion, Amazon can claim proprietorship of No Time to Die, which opens October 8, but some insiders argue it’s a mixed blessing. A $300 million theatrical release, the latest Bond represents a tangle of rights agreements dating back 60 years that reflect the legalistic compromises of the past rather than the slick streamer dealmaking of the present. Sequel prospects also lack a pre-geriatric star. Some ticket buyers may also see its plot as a creaky reminder of white-bread misogyny.

Nonetheless, the Bond franchise has accounted for many hundreds of millions of dollars in box office muscle, and Bezos, as the world’s richest man, covets muscle. Amazon’s meek presence in Hollywood has always annoyed its boss, as Brad Stone...

Woody Allen’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Amazon isn’t dead, but it is definitely wounded.

In a dense ruling released Wednesday on a motion by the Jeff Bezos-founded streamer to toss Allen’s February 7-filed complaint, a federal judge in New York firmly sliced off a good portion of the Oscar winner’s claims. “Amazon’s April 3, 2019 partial motion to dismiss is granted,” U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote wrote in a ruling (read it here). “The plaintiffs’ fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth causes of action are dismissed, including the sole claim against Amazon Studios.”

All of which means Allen has essentially lost the ability to go after the Jennifer Salke-run studio over the Roy Price-instigated Multipicture Acquisition Agreement inked with his production company Gravier.

Already back behind the camera on his new Rivkin’s Festival film, the Manhattan filmmaker can still pursue the action on...

Woody Allen has taken part in a press conference in Spain to launch his next movie, which has a working title of Rivkin’s Festival.

Spanish film and TV stalwart and regular Allen collaborator Mediapro is backing the movie and will co-handle international sales with FilmNation. Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions also produces.

The movie is due to go into production tomorrow and its cast of Elena Anaya, Sergi Lopez, Gina Gershon and Wally Shawn attended today’s conference in San Sebastian alongside Allen and Mediapro CEO Jaume Roures. Christoph Waltz and Louis Garrel also star.

The romance-comedy tells the story of a married American couple (played by Waltz and Gershon) who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. There they get caught up in the magic of the festival but she has an affair with a brilliant French movie director and he falls in love with a beautiful local Spanish woman.

When Miley Cyrus stepped on the South African set of Black Mirror, there to film a just-released episode of the Netflix anthology's fifth season, it was supposed to be the start of a new chapter. Filming the episode, entitled "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too," marked a return to the medium that made her a star—television—for the first time since 2016's ill-fated Woody Allen-Amazon series Crisis in Six Scenes. The role of pop star Ashley O. was an opportunity for the onetime Disney Channel queen to comment on the story of females in the music industry—her story, really—in a piece that was written almost expressly for her. Little did she know that some 10,000 miles away, on the...

Woody Allen has lined up a starry, largely European cast for his next movie, which has a working title of Wasp 2019. The cast includes Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, Louis Garrel (The Dreamers), Sergi López (Pan’s Labyrinth), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In), Wallace Shawn (Manhattan) and Gina Gershon (Blockers).

Mediapro, Allen’s Spanish producing partner on Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight In Paris, is behind the new film with Letty Aronson’s Gravier Productions. Shoot will get underway in July in Spain.

The film tells the story of a married American couple who go to the San Sebastian Film Festival. According to the production, they get caught up in the magic of the festival, the beauty and charm of Spain and the fantasy of movies. She has an affair with a brilliant French movie director, and he falls in love with a beautiful Spanish woman who lives there.

Amazon Studios boss Jennifer Salke sidestepped addressing Woody Allen’s $68 million lawsuit against the streamer at the TCA in February, but the Jeff Bezos-founded company’s lawyers were pretty blunt today.

While not calling for a full dismissal of the self-described “pariah” director’s big bucks February 7th filed complaint over the cancellation of his Roy Price instigated multi-film deal with Amazon yet, attorneys Robert Klieger and his Hueston Hennigan Llp colleagues are determined to cripple the matter Asap.

“Understood in the broader context, Allen’s actions and their cascading consequences ensured that Amazon could never possibly receive the benefit of its four-picture agreement (despite already having paid Allen a $10 million advance upon signing),” asserts the defendants’ motion to dismiss the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth causes of action in Allen’s nearly two month old suit.

After revitalized accusations of Allen’s alleged decades old sexual misconduct with...

Woody Allen is lining up a new film project in Spain with his Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight In Paris producer Mediapro.

Details have not been released on the nature of the project but Spanish paper El Pais, citing sources at Mediapro, reports that scouting has been taking place in the Basque city of San Sebastián.

News of the project comes two weeks after Allen launched legal action against Amazon claiming the online titan broke a lucrative four-film deal it had signed with the filmmaker in 2017. After Amazon and Allen collaborated on TV series Crisis In Six Scenes and movie Wonder Wheel, the company has shelved Allen’s latest film A Rainy Day in New York, starring Timothee Chalomet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez and Jude Law.

Allen remains plagued by controversy relating to accusations of abuse by his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow. A number of his collaborators, including Chalamet, Rebecca Hall,...

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Woody Allen has filed a $68m lawsuit against Amazon Studios, claiming the streamer terminated without cause a multi-film deal.

Papers filed with the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York on Thursday (7) claim Amazon Studios ended a pact to finance and distribute Allen’s films “for the rest of his career”.

The film deal followed the pact in 2014 to produce the series Crisis In Six Scenes. Amazon distributed Cannes Film Festival 2016 opener Café Society (2016), and fully financed Wonder Wheel (2017) to the tune of $25m.

However the...

Amidst continuing controversy over alleged sexual misconduct, turns out Woody Allen isn’t turning the other cheek to the end of his multi-million dollar and multi-picture deal with Amazon.

The Oscar winner today hit the studio division of the Jeff Bezos founded company with a $68 million dollar lawsuit over the cancelation of the four-film agreement and Amazon Studios killing distribution of his long completes and shelved A Rainy Day in New York movie.

“In June 2018, however, Amazon backed out of the deals, purporting to terminate

them without any legal basis for doing so, while knowing that its actions would cause substantial damage to Mr. Allen, Gravier, investors and the artists and crew involved in making the films, the breach of contract complaint filed by lawyers for Allen and his Gravier Productions on Thursday in federal court in New York states (read it here).

“Amazon has tried to excuse its action...

Woody Allen has filed a $68 million suit against Amazon Studios. The director alleges the company has backed out of a multi-picture film deal because of the allegations of sexual misconduct against him. Allen’s adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has long accused Allen of molesting her when she was a child. Allen called the claims “a 25-year old, baseless allegation” in his lawsuit against Amazon.

In addition to backing out of the deal, Allen also alleges Amazon is refusing to release “A Rainy Day in New York.” The movie, starring Selena Gomez, Elle Fanning, and Timothée Chalamet, has been finished for over six months. According to Allen, Amazon has not given him any specific reasons why the film has not been released. IndieWire has reached out to Amazon Studios for further comment. The lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of New York.

Allen originally signed a five-picture deal with Amazon Studios.

Woody Allen says Amazon has no right to terminate a deal for the production and distribution of films.

In 2014, Amazon was looking to make a big move into original content and entered into a deal with the filmmaker for a series titled Crisis in Six Scenes. Then came a series of more agreements for four movies. These were rich pacts that, according to new court documents, guaranteed Allen's company Gravier Productions minimum guaranteed payments totaling between $68 million and $73 million.

However, Allen's career took a turn upon a 2016 column by Ronan Farrow in The Hollywood Reporter, and later,...

Woody Allen says Amazon has no right to terminate a deal for the production and distribution of films.

In 2014, Amazon was looking to make a big move into original content and entered into a deal with the filmmaker for a series titled Crisis in Six Scenes. Then came a series of more agreements for four movies. These were rich pacts that, according to new court documents, guaranteed Allen's company Gravier Productions minimum guaranteed payments totaling between $68 million and $73 million.

However, Allen's career took a turn upon a 2016 column by Ronan Farrow in The Hollywood Reporter, and later,...

When I first saw that the Coen brothers had a new Western in the works, my ears perked up like a cowboy’s at the sound of a dinner bell. Something nourishing was on the grill and it was called “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”

It wasn’t because Joel and Ethan Coen are great balladeers of the Old West. They’d only written one previous Western, “True Grit.” But they have put their unique voice as writers to good use across a range of genres from black comedy (“Fargo”) to crime drama (their Oscar-winning “No Country for Old Men”), to period comedy, to wry romance (“Intolerable Cruelty”).

For people who appreciate the art form that is the screenplay, a coming Coen brothers movie is like the next book from a favorite author.

Yes, they have also been credited for directing most of their screenplays, but their scripts came first...

Miley Cyrus might be in big trouble with Netflix. After a month of rumors regarding her involvement in the new season of “Black Mirror,” Cyrus went ahead and confirmed to Howard Stern that she’s got a role in an upcoming episode (via Billboard). “If you guess it, then I will shake my head ‘yes,'” Cyrus told Stern when he asked about the rumors. Stern then revealed Cyrus confirmed her “Black Mirror’ role, although the actress added she wasn’t allowed to mention “Black Mirror” by name because she’s not allowed to speak about it further.

The rumor was first introduced last month by the South African news website Iol. The outlet spoke with a hotel manager in Cape Town, South Africa who said Miley Cyrus had stayed at the facility while shooting “Black Mirror.” Cyrus’ sister Brandi made the rumor go viral during the December 11 edition of her podcast “Your Favorite Thing.

They’re back: Matthew Weiner’s laundry lists of forbidden plot points. In the days of “Mad Men,” screeners for each new season, half-season, or episode came with a laundry list of spoilers critics could not include under penalty of death, and similar letters have become so prevalent they’re now parodied by other creators. With “The Romanoffs,” those special requests have resumed. However, this review of “The Romanoffs” is relatively brief for reasons that have nothing to do with censorship: The first two episodes of Weiner’s Amazon Prime series are a serious disappointment. There’s not enough to spoil beyond the show’s many, many missteps.

For the first time, Amazon Prime will release one new episode of this anthology series per week for eight weeks, departing from its usual approach of releasing the full season at once. Each installment appears to be feature-length. (The first two clock...

Woody Allen finished production on “A Rainy Day In New York” in October 2017, but now it appears the movie won’t be released in 2018 or maybe ever. Sources tell Page Six exclusively “Rainy Day” has been shelved indefinitely by Amazon Studios, which produced the movie on a reported $25 million budget. The title follows Allen’s previous Amazon efforts “Café Society,” “Crisis in Six Scenes,” and “Wonder Wheel.”

Despite the fact that “Rainy Day” is already shot, Amazon faces a tough challenge releasing a movie directed by Allen in the #MeToo era. The director’s name has been in countless headlines over the last year as his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, brought old allegations accusing Allen of child molestation back into the spotlight. Amazon bombed with its December 2017 release of “Wonder Wheel,” starting with the film’s Nyff red carpet premiere being cancelled in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

Making matters worse for Amazon,...

After taking two years off presenting at the TCA press tour, both Amazon and Netflix returned over the weekend. And both staked memorably forceful claims on their respective roles within the streaming universe.

For Amazon, that meant shifting the conversation away from both the niche programming and the boys-club mentality of the now-concluded Roy Price era, with new Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke taking the stage for her first time representing the streamer. For Netflix, as is so often the case, it was a volume game, with a full day of programming showing off all the sides of Netflix’s diffuse identity.

Head of original programming Cindy Holland made the case Sunday that Netflix doesn’t actually have an identity at all, referring instead to the demographic-agnostic “taste communities” to which Netflix caters, which is reflected in the breadth of its programming from dark drama “Ozark” to upcoming Matt Groening...

Diane Keaton is still supporting her frequent collaborator Woody Allen.

The actress took to her Twitter to send a message of support to the actor and director, who often used Keaton as his muse through their decades of working together, including most famously on Annie Hall.

“Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him,” Keaton wrote. “It might be of interest to take a look at the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you think.”

The actress also linked to the interview in the tweet. Allen has been repeatedly accused of child molestation by his daughter Dylan Farrow.

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Kate Winslet is expressing regret for some of the choices she’s made over the course of her career.

The Oscar winner, 42, most recently starred in Woody Allen‘s last movie Wonder Wheel. When previously asked about the controversy surrounding the director, Winslet chose to side-step the questions. Allen, 82, been repeatedly accused by his daughter Dylan Farrow of child molestation.

In a carefully worded acceptance speech at the London Critics’ Circle awards on Sunday, the actress never mentioned either Allen...

As actors and film distributors distance themselves from Woody Allen amid reignited allegations that he molested his daughter Dylan Farrow, the director’s sister is standing by his side.

Letty Aronson, Allen’s longtime producing partner and younger sibling, claimed Farrow had “capitalized” on the #MeToo movement in an article published by The New York Times on Sunday.

“I do feel that it’s an escalation,” Aronson told the newspaper, adding that the campaign has been used for “ulterior motives.”

Farrow, 32, responded to the Times, “If Woody Allen and his surrogates’ response to this is that I’m capitalizing on...

Colin Firth is the latest star to publicly denounce Woody Allen, saying he will never work with the director again.

“I wouldn’t work with him again,” Firth said in a statement late Thursday, according to The Guardian.

The actor’s announcement comes the same day Allen’s estranged daughter Dylan Farrow gave her first televised interview about her allegations of sexual abuse against her father.

In 2014, Dylan, 32 – who is one of the star’s three children with ex Mia Farrow — publicly claimed that Allen, now 82, molested her as a child. Allen has long denied the allegations, which first surfaced...

Recent Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan is the latest celeb to denounce her decision to work with Woody Allen. The “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star expressed her regret over working with Allen on the 2016 Amazon series “Crisis In Six Scenes”. “Look, I had a great experience working on that project,” she says during a podcast...

Recent Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan is adding her name to the list of celebrities who have expressed regret over working with Woody Allen.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel actress spoke out about working with Allen, 82, and the controversy surrounding him over longstanding sexual abuse allegations. Brosnahan worked with the writer/director on Amazon’s 2016 series Crisis in Six Scenes.

“Look, I had a great experience working on that project,” Brosnahan said during an interview for The Hollywood Reporter‘s ‘Awards Chatter’ podcast. “But I do have to take this opportunity to say that, for me, I have really struggled with...

Plot: A Coney Island waitress (Kate Winslet), trapped in a loveless marriage to a Carousel operator (James Belushi), falls in love with a younger lifeguard (Justin Timberlake), but she has a rival in her newly arrived step-daughter (Juno Temple). Review: After his first two relatively light and frothy Amazon efforts, CAFÉ Society and the TV series “Crisis in Six Scenes”,... Read More...

On a sunny late August day in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, extras on Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s Amazon series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, are dressed in tweed and wool winter suits, overcoats and dresses, suitable for going holiday shopping in late ‘50s Midtown Manhattan.

It’s the next-to-last day of shooting on the series about a housewife who turns to standup comedy following an unexpected upheaval in her home life. The show has leased out an old bank and transformed it into the opulent cosmetics section of the B. Altman department store from that era. A downpour scuttled an outdoor scene from the night before, so there's a lot of scrambling to get the schedule back on track. But since the business of New York can't be disrupted, the extras mingle with the diners at the pizzeria next door, making for an odd mix of Manhattan's elegant past and Brooklyn's gentrified present.

This certainly isn't the...

Days after he was suspended indefinitely, Amazon Studios head Roy Price has resigned from the streaming company he’d started.

This marks the end of a chapter for Amazon and swift fall from grace for Price, who’d come up with the business plan for an Amazon entertainment division, launched the unit and ran it from Day 1.

The resignation was fully expected. As we reported last week, it was considered virtually impossible for Price to be accepted as an Amazon chief going forward following the details of sexual harassment allegations against him made public last Thursday.

“He would be completely ostracized,” one person said on Friday, noting that it would be hard for the studio to attract female showrunners and actors in the current post-Harvey Weinstein environment where there is very little tolerance for sexual harassment.

While the tipping point for Price’s ouster was the release of salacious...

Kate Winslet is a bored waitress having an affair in the latest from the overly prolific writer-director that boasts stunning visuals but a clunker of a script

It’s that time of year again: time for Woody Allen’s ever decreasing fanbase to ignore their well-reasoned intuition and wish for the best from the overly prolific writer-director’s annual starry offering. At this stage of his career, coming off the back of the perfectly acceptable Café Society and the in-no-way-whatsoever-watchable Crisis in Six Scenes, expectations are low, the shining pleasures of 2013’s Blue Jasmine fading faster by the day. Wisely deciding against the boo-loving audience at Cannes, he’s chosen to debut his latest, Wonder Wheel, on the closing night of the New York film festival.

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After his last movie Cafe Society and his poorly received TV series Crisis in Six Scenes, Woody Allen is continuing to partner with Amazon Studios on his latest film, Wonder Wheel… and can you blame him? They reportedly gave him $25 million to work with and the result seems to be his most visually ambitious […]...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the worst show you’ve ever reviewed? Why was it so bad? Did you waver over the grade or rating you gave it?

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I’ve compared “Mixology” to contracting TV herpes, “Fuller House” to exhuming a bloating, gaseous corpse and called “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” the perfect xenophobic TV show for Trump’s America. Still, there’s little doubt that no show has ever made me so irate for its mere misguided existence than a little show called “H8r” on The CW. If you don’t remember “H8r” the premise was this: Mario Lopez drives his F-list celebrity...

From “Crisis in Six Scenes” to “Good Girls Revolt,” here’s every series the streaming service has axed so far.

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Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez will bring new blood to Woody Allen’s untitled next film.

Woody Allen has cast Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, and Selena Gomez in his next feature film. As is usually the case with Allen's projects, the new movie is thus far unnamed.

His latest project will be distributed in cinemas by Amazon’s television and motion picture production arm. This will be the third project Allen directs for Amazon Studios, which produced Cafe Society and the upcoming Wonder Wheel. Amazon also produced Allen’s television directorial debut, Crisis In Six Scenes.

Chalamet is intriguing casting, already starring in Call My By Your Name, which hits cinemas in the Us this autumn, and is already generating Academy Awards talk. Fanning starred in Nicolas Wind Refn’s conspiracy of fame hallucination The Neon Demon, and had a key featured part in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled.

Woody Allen has enlisted Selena Gomez and Elle Fanning for his newest film.

The "Fetish" singer and Maleficent star will appear in the 81-year-old director's yet-to-be-titled upcoming film, which is set to be distributed theatrically through Amazon Studios. Timothée Chalamet, a 21-year-old actor who has appeared in Interstellar, as well as Showtime's Homeland, has also signed on for the movie.

More: Woody Allen Talks Candidly About 'Paternal' Relationship With Wife Soon-Yi Previn

This marks Allen's third project with Amazon, after producing the comedy mini-series, Crisis in Six Scenes, for Amazon Video last year, as well as the upcoming Wonder Wheel, which will feature stars such as Justin Timberlake and Kate Winslet, and is scheduled to hit theaters this December.

Despite his controversial personal life, Allen has had no trouble attracting big-name stars to work with him, including Miley Cyrus, who was featured in Crisis in Six Scenes.

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Filmmaker began relationship with streaming giant in 2016.

Woody Allen has announced the cast of his untitled next feature set up at Amazon Studios.

Timothée Chalamet from Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed Call Me By Your Name will star alongside Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez.

Allen’s Wonder Wheel will close the New York Film Festival and mark Amazon Studios’ first foray into self-distribution.

James Belushi, Juno Temple, Justin Timberlake, and Kate Winslet star in that film, which will open in the Us on December 1.

Letty Aronson, Erika Aronson, and Ed Walson produced Wonder Wheel, which takes place in Coney Island during the 1950s.

Allen’s first collaborated with Amazon Studios in 2016 on Cannes selection Café Society, and his TV debut Crisis In Six Scenes.

Update: Move signals broader transition likely to take effect in 2018.

In its first and long-awaited foray into self-distribution, Amazon Studios has set a December 1 release for Woody Allen’s New York Film Festival closing night drama Wonder Wheel.

The move is a precursor for Amazon Studios’ broader plan to self-distribute full-time, which has been the subject of speculation for many months and Screen understands will occur in 2018.

Up until now the company has partnered on the theatrical component of its releases with established distributors like Roadside Attractions, Lionsgate, and Magnolia Pictures.

Amazon Studios has been quietly building up its distribution team and sources said while the initial focus will remain on arthouse films, the infrastructure could grow to accommodate wider releases.

Bob Berney serves as head of movies marketing and distribution and his credits include breakout successes like The Passion Of The Christ, My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Pan’s Labyrinth.

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Woody Allen is keeping his one-movie-every-year policy alive. Variety reports that Amazon Studios will open the filmmaker’s new movie, “Wonder Wheel,” on December 1 in select theaters.

Allen hasn’t had a movie premiere in the thick of awards season since DreamWorks opened “Match Point” in December 2005. Allen’s four previous films all opened in July, including the Oscar-winning “Blue Jasmine.” Award-winners “Midnight in Paris” and “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” opened in May and August, respectively.

Read More: Woody Allen Rips His Distributors That ‘Failed Miserably’ (But He Loves Amazon)

“Wonder Wheel” stars Kate Winlset, Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple and Jim Belushi. Amazon has not released an official synopsis, but the movie is set around Cony Island in the 1950s. Kate Winslet was previously attached to star in “Match Point” but dropped out because of family issues, which makes “Wonder Wheel” her first collaboration with Allen. The movie is Allen...

2017-05-18T13:53:02-07:00Miley Cyrus Regrets That Naked 'Wrecking Ball' Video

Miley Cyrus has admitted she has major regrets about swinging naked on a wrecking ball in the video for her song of the same name, adding that she’d like to kill the catchy track.

The pop star, 24, famously stripped nude for the infamously steamy video during her headline-grabbing break on to the music scene as a solo act in 2013.

Now Miley, who’s engaged to Aussie actor Liam Hemsworth, has admitted the video will follow her “forever” no matter what she does, and that she wishes it would die.

She said: “That’s something you can’t take away … swinging around naked on a wrecking ball lives forever. Once you do that in the mess that I did, it’s forever.”

Read the rest of this article at The Sun.

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Woody Allen finished his period drama for Amazon Studios, “Wonder Wheel,” on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, he decided to sit for his first-ever Facebook Live video interview, conducted by filmmaker Robert Weide, director of 2012’s “Woody Allen: A Documentary.” Allen discussed his latest movie, which stars Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake, and also shared his thoughts on many of his previous films, most of which he believes were mishandled by distributors.

‘Manhattan’ Exclusive Trailer: Woody Allen’s Classic Rom-Com Gets a 4K Digital Facelift — Watch

“It’s always, ‘We’ll put this out in the summer because it will be counter-programming to all the big movies’ or ‘We’ll put this out in Easter,’” Allen said, adding that when his movies underperform, distributors always have an excuse at the ready. “There is always a story as to why their plan to really squeeze the last dollar out of the box...

2017-05-16T12:39:41-07:00Will Miley Cyrus Ever Be Hannah Montana Again?

So much for the best of both worlds! Miley Cyrus revealed during a new interview that Disney recently asked her about doing a potential Hannah Montana reboot — and she has no interest.

"Dude. I had to go to Disney the other day to promote [my new music], and you know [Hannah Montana] was the first thing they [mentioned]," the "Malibu" singer, 24, said on the Zach Sang Show.

When asked if she'd do a revival of the Disney Channel series, Cyrus replied, "Probably not. Probably not because ... it's a lot of time to be spent with my dad [Billy Ray Cyrus]. You know, my dad was my dad on the show. I have enough dad time."

Read the rest of this article at Us Weekly.

Miley Cyrus recently appeared in Woody Allen's Crisis in Six Scenes.

2017-05-04T07:04:38-07:00Miley Cyrus Proclaims Herself Drug-Free

Miley Cyrus says she’s “evolving” — and part of her newfound growth has been giving up marijuana.

“I haven’t smoked weed in three weeks, which is the longest I’ve ever [gone without it],” the famously pro-pot 24-year-old singer revealed in her new Billboard cover story. “I’m not doing drugs, I’m not drinking, I’m completely clean right now! That was just something that I wanted to do.”

Cyrus said she has grown out of, what she called, her Dead Petz phase — referring to the psychedelic 2015 album that saw the star cover her face with glittery liquid for the cover.

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Miley Cyrus recently appeared in the Woody Allen TV series Crisis in Six Scenes.

2017-04-22T04:56:37-07:00Miley Cyrus is in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

You can’t stop and you won’t stop “Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2.”

The movie is already getting a ton of positive buzz from screenings, and now some breaking news is coming in like a wrecking ball: Miley Cyrus is supposedly secretly in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” sequel.

In an interview with The Huffington Post, actor Dave Bautista, who plays Drax, seemingly confirmed Cyrus has a role in the film, saying, “I heard that she’s uncredited and a voice somewhere.” He couldn’t remember the details but added, “I know I’ve heard that.”

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Miley Cyrus appeared recently in Woody Allen's Amazon series, Crisis in Six Scenes.

An onslaught of onscreen and offscreen talent unite with a clear sense of purpose in the limited series “When We Rise.” An examination of gay and women’s rights over three decades and how their causes conflict and coalesce, Dustin Lance Black’s new ABC offering emphasizes what’s possible when oppressed minorities come together and fight back against a malicious patriarchy.

There’s no shortage of modern parallels at play, and ABC is counting on the public’s revived passion for protest to drive interest in a show that honors those who paved the way with picket signs and (mostly) passive resistance. The eight-episode series written by Black (mostly) does right by its honorable cause, but it suffers from the strictures of its format. A sprawling story creates an awkward combination of history lessons and personal stories, and broadcast standards prove far too restrictive. The result is a conglomeration...

Even at 81 years young, Woody Allen’s work rate continues to be the stuff of legend. For generations, the prolific filmmaker has operated at a remarkably brisk clip, churning out one quirky feature after another, and culminating with the release of last year’s somewhat forgettable romantic dramedy Café Society.

But a mixed reception has never stopped Allen before and sure enough, the director is behind the lens once again for Wonder Wheel, a 1950s-set period drama in which Justin Timberlake takes point as a lifeguard. Seen above alongside Juno Temple and the Oscar-winning Kate Winslet, Timberlake’s character will reportedly have some sort of romantic dalliance with Winslet’s, while Tony Sirico’s mysterious character is the one threatening to throw a spanner in the works.

Set under the grand shadow of Coney Island’s iconic Ferris wheel – known locally as the ‘Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn’ – Wonder Wheel also stars Jim Belushi,...

As the year comes to a close, there is one group we’ve yet to hear from about the Best of 2016: The Directors.

Filmmakers are busy folks, and some were instantly wary about making a list, with “I haven’t seen enough movies to make a top ten list” a common reply. So we decided to keep it loose. Including TV and other forms of entertainment was encouraged, how they chose to frame their list was totally flexible, and even if they only had a handful of projects they wanted to highlight, IndieWire made it clear we wanted to know what inspired them this year.

The most exciting thing, beyond how many great directors replied, is the time and energy they put into their lists. Be it Kirsten Johnson’s tribute to Abbas Kiarostami, Paul Feig’s surprise message to “Ghostbuster” trolls, Jennifer Kent teasing the start of her new film,...

Life as a single working mother in La. Suburban Russian spies. A Demogorgon and the Winona-sance. The Trial of the Century. Marvel’s superhero take on Harlem’s storied underworld and a re-imagined and resurrected Westworld – these are some of the best stories of 2016. An embarrassment of riches and hundreds of new series in one year, TV is where it’s at, especially when you see the quality of most movies these days. Biggest disappointments? The Amazon Woody Allen Crisis in Six Scenes effort and Netflix’s Gilmore Girls’ reboot. Saddest turn of events that’s poisoned the well? The excessive and repetitive...read more...

As the era of “peak TV” continues, plenty of movie stars are making the leap to series television. Click on to see some of the biggest names who’ve made the jump. Movie stars coming to TV, in other words. Woody Allen, the famously neurotic “Manhattan” filmmaker, may not seem like a TV guy. But his comedy “Crisis in Six Scenes” premiered on Amazon – with costar Miley Cyrus. Anthony Hopkins is the Oscar-winning eminence behind such prestige films as “The Remains of the Day” and “Silence of the Lambs.” But he came to TV as Robert Ford, the ominous creator of.