TCA: Producer of recent Woodsy Allen Doc Discusses Filmmaker Striking The Very Best At 75

Ray Richmond is adding to Deadline's coverage of TCA. Bob Weide, producer from the forthcoming four-hour Woodsy Allen documentary that carries the significant title Seriously Funny -- The Comic Art of Wood Alllen and premieres November. 20-21 included in PBS' American Masters series -- made an appearance today on the TCA panel to hype this show. Flanking him were Manhattan star Mariel Hemingway and Oscar-winning Mighty Aphrodite star Mira Sorvino in addition to American Masters creator and professional producer Susan Lacy. Particularly absent in the panel: Mr. Woodsy Allen themself. Almost not a shock. "He's in Rome at this time shooting a movie,Inch Weide reasoned. "Or he'd be around,Inch Lacy rapidly added. "Right. Sure he'd,Inch Weide shot back. "Ought to be fact, I've Mister Allen the following backstage...together with Marshall McLuhan." Weide was granted unparalleled use of Allen for that film despite his being "cripplingly shy," within the producer's words. The access was the culmination of many years of Weide's efforts to land Allen's participation in a glance at his existence and career, following him both on set and also at home in addition to pedaling around Brooklyn to check out the haunts of his youth. But Weide could not have known how fortuitous his timing could be, with Allen warmer than ever before because of the response to his latest film Night time in Paris, which published a box-office record for that veteran filmmaker. "Each time people kind of assume he's a bit low or performed out, along comes a Match Point, a Vicky Christina Barcelona, a Night time in Paris, and he's back on the top with no preventing him," Weide observed. "The large shock is, Woodsy is 75 years of age, he's done a movie annually for 42 years, and Night time in Paris is his greatest moneymaker. It is going to hit $90 million worldwide." Weide ongoing, "Woodsy has got the situation that so far as I understand, nobody has. Those who finance his films don't even read a script. This can be a precedent that pile established together with his first film in 1969, Go ahead and take Money and Run. He shipped it promptly as well as on budget, and nobody screwed with him. This is actually the scam he's drawn off for more than 4 decades now." There is one uncomfortable moment throughout the panel whenever a question was requested of Hemingway -- who had been 18 years of age when Manhattan was shot -- if she thinks his well known passion for much more youthful women has broken Allen's image and career. "Well it isn't a topic I love speaking about greatly," she accepted with apparent anxiety. "It's certainly been harmful to him for some time. But he's an innovative genius and...well...he's a painter and...that does not mean he isn't a strange person, or he makes options all of us accept or all understand. But from my perspective, he is sensible in my experience.Inch