Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen, 2014)

Message

ShellOilJunior · #1 Post by **ShellOilJunior** » Wed May 01, 2013 11:32 am

This looks promising

Emma Stone, Colin Firth and DP Darius Khondji is back.

Shooting begins this summer in the South of France. This is going to be beautiful!

hearthesilence · #2 Post by **hearthesilence** » Wed May 01, 2013 2:55 pm

Yeah, it'll be pretty, but it was funnier when Allen's characters bitched and moaned about their surroundings (NYC and LA in Annie Hall). Shooting in the South of France isn't going to help.

wigwam · #3 Post by **wigwam** » Wed May 01, 2013 2:59 pm

I've liked his last couple postcard ones and agree south of France and Darius Khondji bode well

#4 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:08 pm

Now titled Magic in the Moonlight, here's the first pic:

Dylan · #5 Post by **Dylan** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 7:10 pm

Oh wow, that sounds/looks lovely! Wonderful period styling.

#6 Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 4:34 am

Sony Pictures Classics has picked it up, and with the film set on the Côte d’Azur, a Cannes debut seems virtually guaranteed.

Here's the logline:

Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.

rohmerin · #7 Post by **rohmerin** » Fri Jan 10, 2014 5:07 pm

Tender is the Night remake? The Razor's edge updated?

#8 Post by **domino harvey** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:35 pm

A few more details from Fan-sourced Weekly

Entertainment Weekly wrote:For years, Woody Allen had kicked around the idea of a rom-com about an Englishman (Colin Firth) who sets out to expose a phony mystic (Emma Stone), only to end up falling for her. ''I had it on a piece of notepaper in my drawer for ages,'' Allen says. ''I knew it was a good plot, but I kept seeing it as a contemporary thing and something about that just didn't smell right to me. Then when it occurred to me it could be set in the south of France in the 1920s, all of a sudden it just felt good.''

For Marcia Gay Harden, who plays Stone's mother and co-conspirator, shooting a Woody Allen film on the French Riviera certainly sounded good. ''It was a no-brainer,'' she says. ''Working with Woody has been on my bucket list for years, and there's nothing I love more than travel.'' Allen is practically a travel pro; Magic is his eighth film shot overseas in the past decade. ''By sheer accident, because I was getting European financing,'' he says, ''I've wound up being a foreign filmmaker.''

Professor Wagstaff · Wed May 21, 2014 7:34 pm

Trailer

Roger Ryan · #10 Post by **Roger Ryan** » Wed May 21, 2014 8:27 pm

Professor Wagstaff wrote:Trailer

This may be Allen's best-looking film since his heyday collaborations with Gordon Willis. Seems like fun if not necessarily full of laughs.

hearthesilence · #11 Post by **hearthesilence** » Wed May 21, 2014 10:50 pm

A rain storm sends them indoors where they flirt and explore planetary wonders, how oddly familiar.

ShellOilJunior · #12 Post by **ShellOilJunior** » Thu May 29, 2014 12:20 am

Poster:

The Narrator Returns · Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:44 pm

Oh boy.

#14 Post by **Jeff** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:12 am

I like the one ShellOilJunior posted better.

perkizitore · #15 Post by **perkizitore** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:14 am

Was this designed by the same person that did the graphics for Great Gatsby?

#16 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:27 am

I like it more than I like the last couple Allen posters for sure

The Narrator Returns · Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:28 am

I like that Colin Firth appears to be quite suspicious of Emma Stone's hat.

#18 Post by **swo17** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:37 am

Paddington looks very pretty in this.

pzadvance · #19 Post by **pzadvance** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:38 am

I prefer the pixelated temp poster ShellOilJunior posted to that mess

EDIT: Just like Jeff, it seems #-o ](*,)

#20 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:47 am

The Narrator Returns wrote:I like that Colin Firth appears to be quite suspicious of Emma Stone's hat.

He's obviously looking at her hands to see whether or not they'll fit into his ears

criterion10 · #21 Post by **criterion10** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:57 am

domino harvey wrote:I like it more than I like the last couple Allen posters for sure

I thought Midnight in Paris and Blue Jasmine both had nice posters:

#22 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:00 am

Midnight in Paris was the last good one. Blue Jasmine is boring as hell, as was To Rome

The Narrator Returns · Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:02 am

At least we haven't returned to this yet

#24 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:03 am

As far as post-American Pie teen comedy posters go, that one's not bad (and one of the greatest "Not Woody Allen" snowjobs in marketing, only repeated to a lesser degree by Match Point probably)

FakeBonanza · #25 Post by **FakeBonanza** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:56 am

It's good to emphasize the title by using a screen capture from a sunny daytime exterior scene as the poster.

Site Menu