Midnight In Paris (2011)

To Rome With Love Trailer Online

Woody Allen orders Italian While it would seem that Woody Allen has been using his recent filmmaking career to set off, like so many American students, on a tour or Europe, it has at least produced a few solid movies, especially Midnight In Paris . And now his passport has been stamped in Italy, with the trailer for From Rome With Love arriving. Have a look below. Allen has so far kept the full plot details under wraps, but this footage gives us a bit more of a glimpse into the overlapping storylines promised by his latest romantic comedy drama. Among the characters is Jesse Eisenberg (who faces the tricky task of effectively being the Woody substitute in a film where Allen himself also appears &ndash wonder if they ever meet and cease to exist, a la Timecop ?) Hes a young man showing his father (Alec Baldwin) around his local digs. But hes also dealing with the arrival (Read More)

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‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Readies Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis for Film Debut ‘You Are Here’

Seeing as he served as a writer/producer on Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Matthew Weiner is considered something of a TV god. Also, I hear that he has some new show called Mad Men that’s showing some promise so he’s got the TV game locked down. But a transition into feature films has eluded him up to this point. Weiner wrote a dramedy called You Are Here back in the early 2000s. It’s about a freewheeling weatherman who goes on a road trip with his bi-polar best friend. The friend is kind of a man-child, but he’s in line to inherit some big responsibilities, which causes complications between the two. It sounds like something of a coming-of-age movie, but for grown-ass men. Over the years several incarnations of the film have almost made it into production with names like Matt Dillon, Jack Black, and Matthew McConaughey attached in various roles, but up to this point it’s never (Read More)

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Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett Eyed for New Woody Allen Film

Although Woody Allen earned himself another Oscar for his last film, Midnight in Paris, and currently has To Rome With Love due out in theaters in June, the director is currently considering cast members for an upcoming project. On his radar are Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) as a leading lady and Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) as part of the ensemble. As far as locations go, after Paris and Rome, Deadline also reports that Allen is reportedly looking at Copenhagen for the setting of his next shoot. Details and confirmations are in short order at the moment and there has yet to be a titled assigned to the project. Might I suggest, "Beautiful People in Copenhagen?"

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Over/Under: ‘Midnight in Paris’ vs. ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’

Woody Allen is a legendary filmmaker, to be certain. But he’s also a filmmaker who is perceived to have had a golden age, a period where the movies he made were head and shoulders above the things that he makes now. That’s not such a great place for an artist to be, but Woody managed to shut up a lot of his critics with Midnight in Paris. It’s not only one of Allen’s most financially successful films, it’s also one of his most critically acclaimed, and it’s been held up as proof that we might be in the midst of a Woody comeback. Is it really worthy of all the hype though? Lots of people love this movie—like me—but it’s also a film that has glaring flaws. What is it about Midnight in Paris that makes our Internet culture, that is so quick to tear everything down with snark, give it such an easy pass? Back in 1989 Bill &#38 Ted’s Excellent Adventure was also a huge success. It made so (Read More)

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