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Woody Allen Disses US Filming (Domestic Studios Now Refusing Him Cash & Control For Movies)
NY Post ^ | 5/13/05 | Richard Johnson

Posted on 05/13/2005 9:22:50 AM PDT by gopwinsin04

Geeky director Woody Allen might be a quintessential New Yorker, but he says he is sick of making movies in Manhattan. His latest, 'Match Point' which just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is set and filmed in England.

'I did the film in England because it is increasingly difficult to get financing in the United States,' said Allen. 'Its become more prevalent for US studios and financiers to participate in a project. They want to have a say in casting and read the script.'

'I can never work like that. I don't let people read the scripts. I want the money in a brown paper bag and to give them the film a few months later, and that is that.' In London that is the way it was. There is no rigamarole from people who want to participate.'

'Match Point' a dark tale set in London high society, stars Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, and Johnathan Rhys Meyers.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; kiddiepornfreak; pedophile
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It's called the free market Woody! Enjoy film exile in rainy London town...
1 posted on 05/13/2005 9:22:50 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04
Heaven forfend that the investors know on what they're throwing their money away!

Woody, I still love "Bananas" and "Take the Money and Run", but please shut up and go away now. You're a crashing bore.
2 posted on 05/13/2005 9:24:31 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Count Petofi will not be denied!)
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To: gopwinsin04

Woody has become increasingly strange and perverted.


3 posted on 05/13/2005 9:24:53 AM PDT by trisham ("Live Free or Die," General John Stark, July 31, 1809)
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To: gopwinsin04

"I don't let people read the scripts."

Judging from the quality of his most recent films, I would guess the above quote would include the actors.


4 posted on 05/13/2005 9:25:06 AM PDT by DamascusRoad (Bay Area National Geological Preserve)
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To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

'The Purple Rose of Cairo' was his last funny film and that was like 20 years ago!


5 posted on 05/13/2005 9:25:35 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Does England have any Chuck-E-Cheeses he can take the better half to?


6 posted on 05/13/2005 9:26:00 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (The theory of evolution is the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century - Michael Denton)
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To: gopwinsin04

Woody Allen was widely blamed for killing Orion Pictures, which funded a bunch of his self-indulgent movies and lost money on every one of them.


7 posted on 05/13/2005 9:26:50 AM PDT by Heyworth
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To: trisham

8 posted on 05/13/2005 9:28:13 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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'I can never work like that. I don't let people read the scripts. I want the money in a brown paper bag and to give them the film a few months later, and that is that.

And they should finance your movie ... why?

9 posted on 05/13/2005 9:29:15 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: gopwinsin04

"he says he is sick of making movies in Manhattan."

I agree. I'm sick of him making movies, too. (Maybe he should try the Neverland Ranch)


10 posted on 05/13/2005 9:29:22 AM PDT by Spok (Being paranoid doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you.)
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To: gopwinsin04

Maybe I should move to London if they give out money so freely.....


11 posted on 05/13/2005 9:30:28 AM PDT by blueblazes
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To: gopwinsin04

It would be difficult to name a celebrity with a longer track-record of failure. He has produced notable flops for decades, with his (few) successes long, long ago.


12 posted on 05/13/2005 9:30:56 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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Gross, that was his adopted step daughter, right? So is he a grandad to her child as well...


13 posted on 05/13/2005 9:31:47 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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He's not half the director he use to be. He's Semi-Woody now. But, he does have a point. He comes from the old days when artist control overruled every other concern in film making. His past successes have fed his reputation and his ego. He is above being scrutinized by money people without his experience.
14 posted on 05/13/2005 9:31:52 AM PDT by whereasandsoforth (Stamp out liberals with the big boot of truth)
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To: gopwinsin04

"I need income to support my lifestyle".

15 posted on 05/13/2005 9:32:21 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: gopwinsin04

The studios actually want to read the script before handing over $100 million dollars, go figure.


16 posted on 05/13/2005 9:32:30 AM PDT by SF Republican
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I did the film in England because it is increasingly difficult to get financing in the United States,' said Allen.

Uh Woody... Maybe if you didn't marry and impregnate your girlfriends 19 year old daughter financiers would be more willing to help you out. Or maybe your movies just suck. Or both.
17 posted on 05/13/2005 9:33:10 AM PDT by uncitizen
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Geeky director Woody Allen might be a quintessential New Yorker, but he says he is sick of making movies in Manhattan.

He should be making movies in prison.

18 posted on 05/13/2005 9:33:13 AM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: gopwinsin04

It's too bad about him...very talented many years ago...he just got too weird, professionally and otherwise for my tastes.

But I'm sure he'll find an audience in Europe. They seems to have a tolerance for pedophiles over there.


19 posted on 05/13/2005 9:33:15 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: ClearCase_guy

He takes himself wayyyyy too seriously and the dreary, decadent Manhattan he portrays in his movies for the past couple of decades is just not appealing to or accessible for the vast majority of Americans. Just a bunch of self-indulgent neurotics congratulating themselves on their taste in wine and comparing their trust fund statements.


20 posted on 05/13/2005 9:33:36 AM PDT by blueblazes
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