Woody Allen is about to make his subsequent movie in Madrid.
After unsuccessful efforts to launch tasks in Italy and Barcelona, the 89-year-old director has obtained £1.27 million from the Madrid Regional Authorities to assist finance the manufacturing, in accordance with El País.
The settlement, printed on-line and reported by the Spanish outlet, outlines Woody will embrace “Madrid” within the movie’s title as a part of the deal.
The cash is to be paid in three instalments, contingent on the movie’s progress and its worldwide attain.
A part of the funding will solely be launched as soon as the movie has its world premiere at a significant pageant, such because the Berlinale.
The association is described as “sponsorship by the group of Madrid of the promotional marketing campaign for a characteristic movie provisionally titled Wasp 2026”, with the acronym standing for Woody Allen Summer season Venture.
Beneath the contract, Woody will produce the movie by his long-running banner, Gravier Manufacturing, alongside Spanish accomplice Wanda Imaginative and prescient, identified for Petra.
The regional authorities doc states: “Woody Allen is likely one of the most versatile up to date artists on the movie scene.”
It provides “the promoting and promotion of locations by movie has been a branding software all through the historical past of cinema”.
Woody has an extended historical past of filming in Spain.
In 2008, he shot Vicky Cristina Barcelona within the Catalan capital with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, receiving the identical £1.27 million from native authorities.
He returned to Spain in 2020 to make Rifkin’s Pageant, filmed in San Sebastián.
His most up-to-date movie, Coup de Likelihood, a romantic thriller set in Paris, premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant in 2023 and marked his fiftieth characteristic.
The occasion noticed Woody keep away from questions in regards to the longstanding sexual abuse allegations made towards him by his daughter Dylan Farrow.
Chatting with Selection in Venice, the filmmaker mentioned his admiration for French cinema and the challenges of securing U.S. financing amid controversy.
He stated: “I’ve so many concepts for movies that I’d be tempted to do it, if it was simple to finance.
“However past that, I don’t know if I’ve the identical verve to exit and spend plenty of time elevating cash.”
