Woody Allen: Boxoffice Champ

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Reza wrote: Figures are difficult to come by, but reports suggest that A Rainy Day in New York’s total is well ahead of Pixar’s Onward, which took just over $17,000 in Norway, La Belle Epoque, which earned $35,000 in Australia, and The Wretched which took $69,000 in the US.
Andrew Pulver should be given an award for creative writing. The box office figure for La Belle Epoque is for the weekend before cinemas closed from 22 March in Australia (the cinemas showing La Belle Epoque had closed four days earlier due to health concerns and lack of attendance). They remain shut and there are no plans to open them for the foreseeable future in Australia.

Furthermore, the UK release in June is for streaming only (no cinema release is planned) to be followed by a DVD only release in July.
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Lol, and it only took a pandemic to achieve this disctinction.
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Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York tops global box office
5/14/2020



Film shunned by cast and studio in wake of sexual assault allegations against director finds audience beyond United States

by Andrew Pulver (The Guardian) 5/13/2020


A Rainy Day in New York, the Woody Allen film disowned by high-profile members of its cast and whose US release was cancelled by its original backer, Amazon Studios, has reportedly become the highest-earning film at the global box office this week.

With most of the world’s cinemas shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, A Rainy Day in New York is reported by Box Office Mojo to have earned over $330,000 last weekend in South Korea, after the country began to ease its strict lockdown in recent days.

Figures are difficult to come by, but reports suggest that A Rainy Day in New York’s total is well ahead of Pixar’s Onward, which took just over $17,000 in Norway, La Belle Epoque, which earned $35,000 in Australia, and The Wretched which took $69,000 in the US.

A Rainy Day in New York has been mired in difficulties since the revival of sexual assault allegations against Allen by his daughter Dylan Farrow, which Allen denies. Farrow’s op-ed was published in the Los Angeles Times in December 2017, after the film had finished shooting but before post-production was completed. Its US release, originally planned for 2019, was cancelled by Amazon, which was subsequently sued by Allen over the termination of their contract with the film-maker. Cast members Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Hall and Selena Gomez donated large sums to charity, with Hall saying she “regretted” working with Allen, and Chalamet writing that he did not “want to profit from my work on the film”.

The film has however been released by independent distributors in multiple territories outside the US, including France, Spain, Mexico and Russia, earning around $20.9m so far. It is due to be released in the UK on 5 June.
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