Woody Allen

2022 - 9 - 18

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Woody Allen announces his retirement (NBC News)

The "A Rainy Day in New York" director said he plans to dedicate more time to writing in his twilight years. Woody Allen at the Cannes Film Festival on May ...

[sued them for $68 million](https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/woody-allen-amazon-lawsuit-1203131466/) alleging a breach of contract. His relationship with the Basque provincial capital’s festival goes back to 2004 when he premiered “Melinda & Melinda” and in 2008 with the premiere of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” In 2020, he opened the San Sebastian Film Festival with “Rifkin’s Festival,” shot in and around the tony city of San Sebastian. [told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia](https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20220917/woody-allen-proxima-pelicula-ultima-75549998?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cm) that he intended to retire from making movies and to dedicate more time to writing during his twilight years. Allen described his upcoming film to be similar to “Match Point,” in that it would be “exciting, dramatic and also very sinister.” Allen recently wrote his fifth collection of humor pieces, “Zero Gravity,” which will be published Sept. 27 by Alianza in Spain.

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Woody Allen Says Current Production Is His Last “In Principle” (Vanity Fair)

The controversial 86-year-old writer-director will likely focus on a novel next.

[Pure Chaos](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/09/is-tiktok-turning-fashion-week-into-pure-chaos?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-091422)? “A lot of the thrill is gone,” he [said](https://www.slashfilm.com/1013161/woody-allen-plans-to-retire-from-directing-after-his-next-movie/). [by Alec Baldwin](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/06/alec-baldwin-will-interview-woody-allen-for-some-reason). Depending on how you count these things (he’s created many works for television over the years, and also acted in movie adaptations of his plays which he did not direct) Wasp 22 will be his 50th film. His first movie in the traditional sense as a director was the mock documentary Take The Money and Run in 1969. His last two movies, A Rainy Day in New York and Rifkin’s Festival were essentially ignored, although Rainy Day ended up being a [worldwide box office champ](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/13/woody-allen-rainy-day-in-new-york-tops-global-box-office) in May 2020 due to a fluke of early pandemic scheduling. Despite plenty of technical issues (which led to Baldwin shouting off camera [in Spanish](https://nypost.com/2022/06/28/alec-baldwin-mocked-for-yelling-at-staffer-in-spanish-and-they-said-comedy-was-dead/)), Allen suggested that retirement was imminent. Kenneth Edelson, a New York dermatologist who has appeared in 30 Woody Allen movies, beginning with Alice in 1990, usually credited as Party Guest. Allen’s writing career began in the early 1950s, when he was a 16-year-old, mailing in, as he put it in Apropos of Nothing, “mother-in-law jokes, parking space jokes, [and] income tax jokes” to newspaper columnists. He said that his plan “in principle” is to not make any more movies, and focus the rest of his energy on writing, probably a novel. He has won four Academy Awards off of 24 nominations (winning Best Screenplay for Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Midnight in Paris, and Best Director for Annie Hall), and Diane Keaton, Michael Caine, Mira Sorvino, Penélope Cruz, Cate Blanchett, and Dianne Wiest (twice) have all won Oscars from appearing in Allen's films. Allen’s memoir, Apropos of Nothing, was originally set to be published by Hachette, but they canceled its release in 2020 when employees, and Hachette author Ronan Farrow, voiced complaint.

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Woody Allen Announces Retirement From Filmmaking At 86, Says ... (Deadline)

86-year-old veteran filmmaker Woody Allen has told a Spanish magazine that 'Wasp 22' will be his final movie.

The film is set to shoot in Paris with an all-French cast. Allen has always denied the allegations and continued to work. In his long career, Allen has received a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay.

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Woody Allen Announces Retirement After Next Movie (Vulture)

Director Woody Allen has announced his upcoming retirement from film following his next film, Wasp 22.

Allen has largely worked in Europe following [renewed interest](https://www.vulture.com/article/allen-v-farrow-review-hbo-docuseries.html) in Dylan Farrow’s sexual-abuse allegations against him. [Woody Allen](https://www.vulture.com/tags/woody-allen/) plans to retire from film after the release of his next movie, Wasp 22, the director announced in an interview with Spanish newspaper [La Vanguardia](https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20220917/woody-allen-proxima-pelicula-ultima-75549998). According to Allen, Wasp 22 is similar to his 2005 thriller [Match Point](https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/scarlett-johansson-woody-allen-hollywood-reporter.html) and will be “exciting, dramatic, and also very sinister.” Little else is known about Wasp 22, other than that the film is set in Paris and will be shot entirely in French.

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Woody Allen to Retire from Filmmaking After Next Movie (IndieWire)

Allen is currently at work on his 50th film, the Paris-set "Wasp 22."

Both “Apropos of Nothing” and “Zero Gravity” had trouble finding publishers due to the allegations against him. I’m going to make another one and I’ll see how it feels.” Little plot detail is known about the film, though Allen compared it to “Match Point” and described it as “exciting, dramatic, and also very sinister.” It was a nice feeling to know that 500 people were seeing it once… His memoir “Apropos of Nothing,” was published in 2020. He recently released his fifth collection of short fiction, “Zero Gravity,” and expressed interest in writing a full length novel in the near future.

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Unfortunately, Woody Allen will release another movie before he ... (The A.V. Club)

Leaving behind a legacy of sexual abuse allegations and a handful of great movies that, well, people don't feel enthusiastic about watching anymore, ...

(Or maybe it’s because his ideal audience is still saying things like “movie house,” a particularly niche demographic.) Instead, Allen will retreat to his career as an author, presumably writing books about middle-aged academics and the college freshmen who can’t resist them. She didn’t want to “work with that fuck” anyway. He called the film “exciting, dramatic and also very sinister.” This must be the first time in decades that someone described Allen’s work as “exciting”—though the “very sinister” part is on brand. “When I used to do a film, it’d go into a movie house all across the country,” Allen said in the interview. While it doesn’t sound that committed to putting the camera down, he did say to Alec Baldwin, [in what Vulture calls a](https://www.vulture.com/2022/09/woody-allen-announces-retirement-after-next-movie.html?utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=vulture&utm_medium=s1) “ [terrifying Instagram live interview](https://www.vulture.com/2022/07/julie-klausner-tom-scharpling-alec-baldwin-woody-allen-interview.html),” that the “thrill is gone” from making movies. [La Vanguardia](https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20220917/woody-allen-proxima-pelicula-ultima-75549998).

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Woody Allen Is Retiring (GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT)

Acclaimed and controversial director Woody Allen has announced that after his next film, he will retire from filmmaking.

In addition to his career as an actor and director, Woody Allen is known for his activism in film preservation and for his love of jazz music. At 86 years old, Woody Allen is one of the most prolific modern filmmakers and yet one of the more controversial. While Woody Allen continued to receive awards and widespread acclaim in the 1990s and 2000s, more celebrities began to publicly distance themselves from him in the 2010s. [Deadline](https://deadline.com/2022/09/woody-allen-retirement-86-wasp-22-final-movie-1235121601/), the filmmaker is going to be stepping away from filmmaking to focus on other creative endeavors and says that his next project will be a novel. [James Bond](https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/topic/james-bond)-inspired thriller with new dialogue to create an odd comedic journey to discover the world’s best egg salad recipe. In subsequent years, he would gain acclaim for films in the romantic comedy genre, while venturing into other genres like magic realism in The Purple Rose of Cairo and European art cinema with Shadows and Fog.

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Woody Allen Announces Retirement From Filmmaking (news9.com KWTV)

Allen, 86 years old, has won 12 Academy Awards throughout his career and is known for films such as Midnight in Paris, Blue Jasmine, Annie Hall, Vicky Cristina ...

Farrow, in 2021](https://www.etonline.com/dylan-farrow-thanks-supporters-after-premiere-of-allen-v-farrow-docuseries-160961). [Woody Allen](https://www.etonline.com/people/woody-allen) has announced that his forthcoming project, his 50th movie, is set to be his last. Farrow initially went public with her allegation in 1992 and recounted it in the four-part docuseries, [Allen v.

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Woody Allen's 50th and Final Film Set to Star Isabelle Huppert ... (Jordan Ruimy)

Will Vittorio Storaro be back as the DP? I sure hope so. He's had a fruitful working relationship with Allen for almost 10 years now. Allen's films have looked ...

I heard he’s going to make a film in France soon. Allen’s films have looked absolutely gorgeous since Storaro started collaborating with him. It’s really not a big deal.

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Woody Allen is retiring from filmmaking . . . to work on his novel. (Literary Hub)

Sure, Woody Allen may be a celebrity octogenarian with millions of dollars and a decimated reputation, but he's also just like you: keeping up with pandemic ...

. . “My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies, and focus on writing,” he said. filmmaking .

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Woody Allen Says He Isn't Retiring After All (IndieWire)

Following a Spanish newspaper's report that director Woody Allen would be retiring after "Wasp 22," Allen refuted the claim.

Allen said during the June 2022 video interview that he will “probably make at least one more movie” following “Wasp 22.” I’m going to make another one and I’ll see how it feels.” It was a nice feeling to know that 500 people were seeing it once… While the plot remains under wraps, Allen compared the feature to “Match Point” and described the film as “exciting, dramatic, and also very sinister.” Gina Gershon, Christoph Waltz, Louis Garrel, Wallace Shawn, and Spanish actors Elena Anaya and Sergi Lopez star in the film. “A lot of the thrill is gone,” the “Manhattan” director explained. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.”

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Woody Allen says making movies is 'not as enjoyable to me' (New York Post)

Has the time come for director Woody Allen to say goodbye to his film career? The Oscar winner, 86, seemingly announced plans to retire once he has ...

I don’t get the same fun of doing a movie and putting it in a movie house,” he said. “I don’t get the same fun doing a movie and putting it in a theater. “When I started to do a film, it would go into movie houses all over the country and people would come by the hundreds to watch it in big groups on a big screen,” he explained. I feel that, yes, I will work again in film — but I might want to turn to writing.” [HBO](https://trk.hbomax.com/aff_c?offer_id=5&aff_id=1020&source=nyp&aff_sub3=xid%3Afr1663594084950iga) docuseries [“Allen v. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.”

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Woody Allen Issues Statement, Says 'He Never Said He Was Retiring' (Deadline)

Woody Allen has been quick to deny rumours of his retirement, that came out of an interview he gave to a Spanish magazine, saying his next film would be his ...

Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.” This isn’t the first time Allen has discussed stepping back from the movie business. “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, not did he say he was writing another novel.

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Woody Allen Walks Back Claims, Says He Has 'No Intention of ... (Variety)

While in Europe to work on his 50th film, Woody Allen told a Spanish newspaper that he intended to retire from making movies and to dedicate more time to ...

His relationship with the Basque provincial capital’s festival goes back to 2004 when he premiered “Melinda & Melinda” and in 2008 with the premiere of “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.” [sued them for $68 million](https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/woody-allen-amazon-lawsuit-1203131466/) alleging a breach of contract. In 2020, he opened the San Sebastian Film Festival with “Rifkin’s Festival,” shot in and around the tony city of San Sebastian. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.” [told Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia](https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20220917/woody-allen-proxima-pelicula-ultima-75549998?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=cm) that he intended to retire from making movies and to dedicate more time to writing during his twilight years. [Woody Allen](https://variety.com/t/woody-allen/) said he intended to not make more movies and dedicate more time to writing, a representative for the director released the following statement: “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, not did he say he was writing another novel.

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Woody Allen Announces His Retirement From Filmmaking (ScreenCrush)

He rose to prominence as a writer and stand-up comedian, then became a huge star in the 1970s directing his own movies, like Bananas, Annie Hall, and Manhattan.

Although the accusations garnered enormous publicity in the 1990s, Allen was able to continue his career with very little interruption all through the decade and into the 2000s. Currently, he has no intention of retiring and is very excited to be in Paris shooting his new movie, which will be the 50th.” He was a close creative and romantic partner of

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Woody Allen Not Retiring From Film Making, Rep Says—Despite ... (Forbes)

A representative for embattled director Woody Allen on Monday clarified comments made by the filmmaker saying he would be retiring after his 50th film.

Allen was accused by his adopted daughter Dylan of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, and after the #MeToo movement, the Hall director faced intense public scrutiny over the claims. Several major stars, including Kate Winslet, Elliot Page and Colin Firth, have either expressed regret over working with Allen or have pledged to not work with him again. In an interview with Alec Baldwin in June, Allen said “a lot of the thrill is gone” from making movies, and he may turn to writing Broadway plays in the future.

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Just kidding: Woody Allen isn't actually gonna retire, he was only ... (The A.V. Club)

Despite past claims he would step away from filmmaking to focus on writing, Allen now says he has 'no intention of retiring'

Farrow](https://www.avclub.com/dylan-farrow-s-voice-rises-above-the-media-circus-in-hb-1846297953). [Variety](https://variety.com/2022/film/global/woody-allen-retirement-1235375939/). Allen and Soon-Yi had their first “friendly encounter” (in her own words) when Soon-Yi was At that press conference, Allen also stated he “never thought of retiring.” Two years and one extremely incriminating documentary later, it appears he’s returned to the sentiment. [Drew Barrymore](https://www.avclub.com/drew-barrymore-also-regrets-working-with-woody-allen-1846918176), [Greta Gerwig](https://www.avclub.com/greta-gerwig-regrets-working-with-woody-allen-says-she-1821957787), and [Kate Winslet](https://www.avclub.com/kate-winslet-says-she-has-bitter-regrets-about-workin-1822530366) have all expressed regret in working with him due to longstanding sexual abuse allegations against Allen from his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow. The director, who had seemingly expressed intentions of retiring in the name of focusing on writing in an interview with Spanish newspaper [La Vanguardia](https://www.elperiodico.com/es/ocio-y-cultura/20220917/woody-allen-proxima-pelicula-ultima-75549998) published over the weekend, has now changed his tune on any purported last hurrah.

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