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After Grabbing France’s First Lady, Woody Allen Finds his Leading Lady in Cotillard

The phasing out of “Scarlett Johansson period” is now complete, as Woody Allen seems logically more into leading ladies whose first language is French. Slowing finding the set pieces for his Paris-based project, Carla Bruni and Owen Wilson were recently announced/attached, and now Allen claimed Oscar winning actress in Marion Cotillard off waivers.

The phasing out of “Scarlett Johansson period” is now complete, as Woody Allen seems logically more into leading ladies whose first language is French. Slowing finding the set pieces for his Paris-based project, Carla Bruni and Owen Wilson were recently announced/attached, and now Allen claimed Oscar winning actress in Marion Cotillard off waivers – she probably jumped on the chance at working with the legend filmmaker without the need to read the script. Shooting is expected to take place during the summer. After previously hitting London and Barcelona, I wonder if Allen would consider hitting the capital cities of Asia – I’m sure he could find financing coin with the same conditions as his European deals.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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