Sony Pictures Classics acquires Woody Allen rom-com 'Nero Fiddled' starring Alec Baldwin and Penelope Cruz
Specialty division also distributed this year's Best Picture contender 'Midnight in Paris'
Woody Allen poses during a "Midnight in Paris" photo call at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
It's no wonder Sony Pictures Classics is so eager to get back in bed with Woody Allen for his next film "Nero Fiddled" - which the specialty division has just acquired - as "Midnight in Paris", their most recent venture with the writer/director, has so far grossed over $140 million worldwide (more than $56 million of that from the domestic market).
Indeed, "Paris" is the highest-grossing film in Allen's oeuvre thus far (though several of his earlier commercially-successful efforts, including "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Manhattan", would top it if grosses were adjusted for inflation), and with the film now a quadruple-Golden Globe nominee as well as a likely Best Picture contender at next year's Oscars, the 76-year-old filmmaker's career is hotter than its been in years (well, at least since "Match Point", anyway).
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"Nero", which also features Allen's first acting role since 2006's "Scoop" starring Scarlett Johansson, is a vignette (or portmanteau) romantic-comedy film set in Rome. Along with Allen, the cast includes Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Judy Davis (playing Allen's wife), Greta Gerwig and Roberto Benigni. It's expected to be released sometime in the summer of 2012.
Did you enjoy "Midnight in Paris"? Does "Nero Fiddled" sound like something you'd like to see? Let us know in the comments!
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December 22, 2011 at 12:37AM EST Reply to CommentI'm glad he saw fit to use Judy Davis again. To piggyback on that last statement the same for using Kathy Bates again after she reportedly didn't get along with him too well on the set of Shadows and Fog -- hence why it took a full twenty years before they could work together again -- she has since said his directing style with her is more direct than before.