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Midnight In Paris: Woody Allen’s Biggest Oscar Hopeful in Over Two Decades?
28 December 2011 4:06 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Woody Allen’s 41st feature film in 45 years of directing somewhat surprisingly became the biggest box office hit of his career, grossing $56 million in the Us and was thought to have enough mainstream potential to be released in the UK soon after its Stateside run (usually us Brits have to wait a full year before the latest Woody Allen film is released and even then almost always on a limited run). Now available on DVD and Blu-Ray release in the Us and coming out in the UK on the 6th February 2012, it’s the perfect time to take a look back at this film, which upon release had a fair amount of Oscar hype, and see how it holds up.
Overall it’s one of Woody’s most optimistic films of recent times, its story centres around Owen Wilson’s character Gil – a Hollywood hack screenwriter – feeling out of place in his surroundings, »
- Owain Paciuszko
Woody Allen gets his groove back with Midnight in Paris after years of decline
3 October 2011 2:00 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Veteran director joins $100m club with his acclaimed new picture despite being written off by critics
Despite years of critical derision and a general perception that his career is in terminal decline, Woody Allen has confounded his critics by engineering a commercial renaissance – joining the $100m club in the process.
Allen's 41st feature as director, Midnight in Paris, which is due for release in the UK on Friday, is already his highest-grossing picture: its worldwide take stands at more than $107.4m (£68.7m).
Allen has not reached these heights at the box office since the mid-80s, when Hannah and Her Sisters took $40.1m in the Us, compared with Midnight in Paris's $54.4m. Manhattan (1979) and Annie Hall (1977) are the next highest, with $39.9m and $38.3m respectively.
The reasons behind the success of Midnight in Paris are open to debate. In recent years Allen's commercial credibility has been on the rise, »
- Andrew Pulver
The surprise movie hits of 2011
17 August 2011 7:29 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
It’s blockbuster movies that have dominated the box office in 2011. But there’s been room for some sleeper hits, too. Such as this little lot…
Over the past four months, three of the ten biggest films of all time at the box office have been released. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have each grossed over $1bn across the planet. It’s a staggering number, with Potter leading the pack, sitting behind Avatar and Titanic as the third biggest film of all time.
But the success of these movies was arguably preordained. Each had a massive production budget, a marketing spend to make small countries wince, and opening weekends bought for them that would spring them off to a very fast box office start.
What 2011 has also proven, though, is that there’s still room for a good, »
'Tower Heist' Trailer-- A '90s Ensemble Robbery Comedy as Directed by Brett Ratner
28 July 2011 2:20 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
If its 'working stiffs who decide to rob the billionaire who defrauded their pensions' plot weren't such a blatant capitalization on recent financial scandals, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Tower Heist looks like an ensemble robbery comedy that someone like Woody Allen would have tried to make 13 years ago. For starters, it stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni. The only actors that tip off the fact that this is a 2011 film are Michael Pena and Gabourey Sidibe. Oh, and the grey hair on Stiller and Broderick's hair, that's kind of a tell as well. And while that sounds like a knock on the film, Tower Heist looking like it belongs in a generational league with Small Time Crooks, The...
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Trailer and Poster for 'Tower Heist' Starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy Arrives
28 July 2011 11:32 AM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
If its 'working stiffs who decide to rob the billionaire who defrauded their pensions' plot weren't such a blatant capitalization on recent financial scandals, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Tower Heist looks like an ensemble robbery comedy that someone like Woody Allen would have tried to make 13 years ago. For starters, it stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni. The only actors that tip off the fact that this is a 2011 film are Michael Pena and Gabourey Sidibe. Oh, and the grey hair on Stiller and Broderick's hair, that's kind of a tell as well. And while that sounds like a knock on the film, Tower Heist looking like it belongs in a generational league with Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,...
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Trailer and Poster for 'Tower Heist' Starring Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy Arrives
28 July 2011 11:32 AM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
If its 'working stiffs who decide to rob the billionaire who defrauded their pensions' plot weren't such a blatant capitalization on recent financial scandals, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Tower Heist looks like an ensemble robbery comedy that someone like Woody Allen would have tried to make 13 years ago. For starters, it stars Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick and Tea Leoni. The only actors that tip off the fact that this is a 2011 film are Michael Pena and Gabourey Sidibe. Oh, and the grey hair on Stiller and Broderick's hair, that's kind of a tell as well. And while that sounds like a knock on the film, Tower Heist looking like it belongs in a generational league with Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,...
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'Midnight in Paris' is Woody Allen's biggest hit in 25 years? Well, sort of.
23 June 2011 11:10 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Midnight in Paris is poised to become Woody Allen’s biggest hit in 25 years. Though it only recently reached more than 1,000 movie theaters, the Owen Wilson comedy has grossed an impressive $22.7 million, in addition to near-universal critical praise. When it passes Match Point ($23.1 million) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona ($23.2 million) later this week, it will be the director’s most successful film since the Oscar-winning Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986.
Well, technically… but not really. As impressive as Midnight in Paris has been — especially following duds You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Whatever Works — no box-office nerd would attempt »
- Jeff Labrecque
Best Woody Allen movie ever: 'Annie Hall'? 'Hannah and Her Sisters'? Vote now!
17 June 2011 12:50 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Yesterday, we asked you to name your favorite Woody Allen movie ever. Needless to say, the responses we received were as diverse as Allen’s oeuvre itself, from established classics like Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters to underrated gems like Alice and Sweet and Lowdown. Then there’s a reader who claims to have watched Everyone Says I Love You at least 10 times. That just makes me happy. EW readers still really seem to love Woody’s “earlier, funnier” movies like Bananas, Sleeper, and Love and Death, while his critically panned recent output fared surprisingly well — more than one »
- Christian Blauvelt
Midnight In Paris Review
10 June 2011 7:13 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
"Midnight in Paris" is, without question, the best Woody Allen film I've seen in the past decade.And, I should stop right there. As I was setting out to catch the screening of "Midnight in Paris", it occurred to me that it has actually been some time since I last saw a Woody Allen film when it was new. It sure didn't feel that way, as I've been keeping up the director vicariously, but the last one I saw in the theater was "Small Time Crooks", in 2000. Sheesh, that is a while ago. »
Ishtar. Are There Second Winds in the Desert?
20 May 2011 8:50 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Elaine May at the 92Y. Part One.
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to see Ishtar (1987) at a special event with writer/director/actress/funnywoman Elaine May. She's been out of the spotlight for some time. The last major hurrah was her hilarious supporting role in Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks (2000). Ishtar, for those that are unfamiliar, is an infamous big budget flop in which Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman star as a talentless musical duo who get mixed up with middle eastern politics via "terrorist" Isabelle Adjani and CIA agent Charles Grodin during a gig in Morrocco.
Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Isabelle Adjani in Ishtar (1987). © Sony Pictures
If you lived through the 1980s you probably feel like you saw Ishtar even if you didn't it because it became an easy-target for comedians and the basis of a lot of schaudenfreude fun (look how the mighty fall! »
- NATHANIEL R
Hugh Grant Takes The Lead In The Pirates! Band Of Misfits
17 May 2011 1:19 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
An Aardman Production For Sony Pictures Animation Martin Freeman, David Tennant, Imelda Staunton, Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Brian Blessed, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen Also On Board
Culver City, Calif. – Hugh Grant will voice the lead role alongside an all-star cast in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the new stop-motion, 3D, animated film produced by Aardman Animations for Sony Pictures Animation. The film, which will be distributed by Columbia Pictures, will be released March 30, 2012 in North America.
Hugh Grant, starring in his first animated role, is the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain – a boundlessly enthusiastic, if somewhat less-than-successful, terror of the High Seas. With a rag-tag crew at his side (Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson, Russell Tovey, and Ashley Jensen), and seemingly blind to the impossible odds stacked against him, the Captain has one dream: to beat his bitter rivals Black Bellamy (Jeremy Piven) and Cutlass Liz (Salma Hayek) to »
- Michelle McCue
Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 3)
25 March 2011 4:48 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary American filmmaker Martin Scorsese in the third of a five part feature... read parts one and two.
When he was approached by Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), who wanted to revise his signature role of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1961), Martin Scorsese was skeptical about the project. “I had a lot of reservations about it,” admitted the filmmaker of the planned cinematic adaptation of The Color of Money (1986) by novelist Walter Tevis. “I felt it was a literal sequel. There were even a few minutes of film inserted in it from the first picture. It had its own merits, but it certainly wasn’t the kind of thing I wanted to do.” A meeting was held in New York between the acting legend and the director where the decision was made to keep the name of the book but »
- flickeringmyth
Review: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger – Desperation For Happiness, Whatever That Is
18 March 2011 5:44 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Woody Allen; there aren’t many words in film-land more likely to create a critical divide between outright adoration, exasperated annoyance, or the half-interested puzzlement of ‘oh yeah, isn’t that the guy that used to be funny’.
From the early knockabout idiocy of Take the Money and Run, through the comedic genius years of ‘Sleeper’, ‘Play It Again, Sam’ and ‘Annie Hall’, and into the up and down experimentation with more broad humour (‘Small Time Crooks’) and pseudo-scandinavian angst (the interminable ‘Interiors’), Allen has at least never been less than interesting. Perhaps his desire to be seen as a dramatist and not just a stand-up comic turned film humourist has caused an often problematic output, but in the last few years it has added a welcome sardonic and darkly funny streak, particularly when his natural ability to find amusement in human behaviour is balanced with »
- Mark Clark
Beats Rhymes & Life Acquired by Sony Pictures Classics
10 March 2011 8:12 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American rights to Michael Rapaport's directorial debut, Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest. Rival Pictures and State Street Pictures produced the film, which was in Documentary Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.
Sony Pictures Classics brokered the deal with The Paradigm Motion Picture Finance Group and Steven C. Beer at Greenberg Traurig.
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what's next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group's much-publicized breakup in 1998. A Tribe Called Quest has three platinum albums - Midnight Marauders, »
- MovieWeb
Henry's Crime – review
15 January 2011 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Directed by the British film-maker who made the recent cockney gangland drama 44 Inch Chest, Henry's Crime has the same basic plot as Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks, which, in turn, drew on Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League. A dimwitted toll booth clerk (Keanu Reeves) in upstate New York is jailed after taking the rap for a bank robbery staged by an old school friend and comes out determined to rob the same Buffalo bank. For this, he recruits an old lag (James Caan) he meets inside and an unreliable thickhead who survived the earlier heist. The plan is to use a tunnel dug by bootleggers during prohibition, which reaches from a changing room in the theatre next door to the bank vault.
No effort is made to conceal his plans either from the bank's security man who made the arrest five years earlier or from the leading actress »
- Philip French
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