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[Blind Gossip] This very famous director is mad at everybody!

He’s mad at the studio for not making more of his films.

He’s mad that his last film is not getting released to theaters.

He’s mad that the stars of that film are refusing to promote it, even as it goes straight to cable/DVD.

He’s mad that some of the stars of his other films won’t even return his calls, as he believes that he “made” their careers and thought they were his friends.

He’s mad that he can’t get financing for another film he wants to do involving a young woman falling in love with an older man.

Mad, mad, mad!

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Director:

[Optional] Do you feel sorry for him?

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Director: Woody Allen

Woody Allen is mad at everybody!

After years of embracing and supporting the quirky director, many people in the entertainment world finally started distancing themselves from him.

Some big stars – like Timothee Chamalet and Elle Fanning and Selena Gomez – starred in his film, A Rainy Day in New York.

When they took the gig, they pretended that they had no idea of Allen’s sordid past with his ex, Mia Farrow, and the children they raised together.

Allen later married one of those children, Soon Yi.

Yes, you may roll your eyes in disbelief that all these stars and their agents were so clueless.

Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, made some salacious charges against Allen about events that happened in her childhood.

Dylan was backed up by her mother, actress Mia Farrow (Rosemary’s Baby), and her brother, journalist Ronan Farrow.

Ronan Farrow wrote a piece detailing the allegations.

Given that all of this was coming on the heels of the Me Too movement, both the studio (Amazon) and the stars of the movie cautiously pulled back from promoting the film.

Amazon Studio became increasingly concerned about the negative publicity of working with Allen, and told him that they decided not distribute Rainy Day.

Woody Allen wound up yelling and suing.

From The BBC.

Woody Allen settles $68m lawsuit with Amazon over movie deal

Woody Allen has reached a legal settlement with Amazon Studios after it abandoned a four-film deal.

Allen initially filed a $68m (£52m) lawsuit in February amid resurfaced allegations that he molested his adopted daughter.

Amazon argued that his comments about the #MeToo movement “sabotaged” its attempts to promote his new movies.

The film director denies sexually assaulting Dylan Farrow, who lost a court case against him in 1992.

Under the movie deal, signed in 2016, Allen received a $10m advance payment. But two years later, the release of his first film, A Rainy Day in New York, was shelved and plans for three other movies were cancelled.

Shortly before Amazon withdraw from the agreement, Allen reportedly expressed sympathy for movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of sexually assaulting dozens of women.

Woody Allen and Harvey Weinstein. Two peas in a disgusting pod.

Amazon returned the rights to Allen, and the film got limited distribution overseas.

Rainy Day only grossed a total of $21 million worldwide.

That wasn’t the end.

Ronan Farrow, Allen’s son, made sure to keep the assault story in the news.

When Woody Allen was trying to sell his new autobiography, Apropos of Nothing, Ronan Farrow tried to shut down the sale and publication.

Once again, Woody Allen was mad!

Ronan Farrow did succeed in getting Hachette Publishing to drop the book… but their French subsidary went ahead with the publication.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Woody Allen Memoir Dropped by Hachette After Staff Walkout

The book’s French publisher intends to go ahead with Allen’s memoirs despite a U.S protest from Hachette employees, saying “Woody Allen is not Roman Polanski.”
Hachette canceled the planned publication of Allen’s memoir Apropos of Nothing after staff staged a walkout protesting the decision.

“Hachette Book Group has decided that it will not publish Woody Allen’s memoir Apropos of Nothing, originally scheduled for sale in April 2020, and will return all rights to the author,” the publishing company said Friday in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

But Stock, a French subsidiary of Hachette, is going ahead with the planned April 29 release of the French edition of the book, titled Soit dit en passant. In an interview with France Inter public radio, Stock’s chairman Manuel Carcassonne called Allen’s book “wonderfully-written, amusing, full of humility” and called the 84-year-old director “one of the century’s great artists.”

“Woody Allen is not Roman Polanski,” Carcassonne said. “Roman Polanski has acknowledged some of the accusations made against him. This is not at all the case for Woody Allen who has always protested his innocence and proved it in U.S. courts.”

Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. Two peas in a disgusting pod.

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  1. thelasthigh says

    woody allen

    give it up! he’s talented but everyone knows he’s a creep now and they don’t want to be anywhere near him anymore. that’s his own fault

  3. GirlWhy says

    Woody Allen? Because the whole falling in love with an older man seems right up his alley in terms of movies he’s done

  7. nycmadam says

    Woody Allen

    No, I truly believe he’s a sexual predator and should be held accountable. He managed to escape being sent to jail, so the next best thing is to bury his career.

  12. bertwheeler says

    Woody Allen.
    If it’s him, yes, I sympathize. He might be a creep — hell, he is a creep — but I think the charges against him are BS.

  14. LizardQueen says

    Woody Allen?

    If it is… NOPE! Don’t feel sorry for him at all! He can dry his tears with his money.

  17. Dragon Lady says

    Director: Bryan Singer

    [Optional] Do you feel sorry for him?
    Nope. He’s a pedophile! He deserves the backlash he is getting.

  20. hwkgirl1 says

    Creepy Woody Allen
    Amazon cancelled the deal on his new movie
    Nobody wants to see old pervs and young ladies.

  27. deering says

    Woody Allen

    Amazon

    “A Rainy Day In New York.”

    Chalamet, Neumann, Gomez, and Hall bailed in various ways.

    Dunno about previous stars or his next movie.

  35. Gerseychick says

    Woody Allen….Yuck…You married your girlfriends daughter…And took nude photos of her when she was underage…Pig…

  47. wolfinsheepsclothing says

    Woody Allen

    No I don’t feel sorry. The only narrative he knows is the only one he lives, * old creep who likes little girls.

  59. 5klp471 says

    Brian Singer. Talk about an ego that needs to get over himself. And no, I don’t feel sorry for him.

  63. rebeccadewinter says

    Woody Allen – just because of the younger woman older man thing.

    Don’t really feel sorry for him. He is rich enough to fade into obscurity without suffering. It’s just his ego that is hurt.

  65. abracadabra says

    Woody Allen

    Optional: Not sorry for him at all. He’s a child molester. Looking back at his movies (eg Manhattan), his creepy and inappropriate interest in young girls is clear. He was the actor, director and writer of these films. Makes me sad that I don’t enjoy Hannah and Her Sisters anymore. I think lots of stuff will come out after his death. I do feel sorry for Soon-Yi. She’s basically his caretaker / nurses aide given their 35 year age difference.

  79. Kerengende says

    This would be Woody Allen, wouldn’t it? The glasses and the hair gave it away.
    He’s suing Amazon for not releasing his films.

  90. Lo_li_ta says

    Woody Allen Who has recently sued Amazon for not releasing his latest film.

    Not at all. He is a perv.

  92. gingercat says

    Woody Allen. He just sued Netflix for backing out of a 3 picture deal.

    Do I feel sorry for him? NOPE.

  98. Xanadu says

    Woody Allen

    Nope. He should have been iced out when he left naked, spread legged pictures of Mia Farrows’ daughter on the mantle, for her to find.

    Total creep.