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Larry David is an inspired choice to play Woody Allen's Jewish New Yorker proxy.

Woody Allen needs no introduction. Love him or hate him, he's been making movies since 1966 and has been a major factor in our cultural consciousness.

Woody Allen 's "Whatever Works'' averaged $31,191 at nine screenings during its opening weekend, the year's third best limited opening , which is no predictor that it will play beyond the East and West Coasts.

Woody Allen has been gradually been moving out of the center ring of his own movies, with his last real starring role having been in 2002's "Hollywood Ending." Long before that, however, various actors have been seen as playing the Woody Role, although the director doesn't necessarily agree with that take.

With a charm and wit that was uniquely British, Jonny Lee Miller brought a passion and dedication to acting that earned him a lasting - " though mostly under-the-radar - " career from stage to screen.

On the eve of the release of Whatever Works , the 40th movie Woody Allen has directed, I thought it would be fun to rank every single one of his films in order of quality, from the sublime to the wretched.

This late in his career, Allen might err in his casting, but ultimately his storytelling is sound.

The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works - his 40th for those keeping count - signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one.

One big-budget box office disappointment does not usually signal the end of a movie star's reign.

Jonny Lee Miller will join previously announced star Sienna Miller in Roundabout Theatre Companya s upcoming production of Patrick Marbera s After Miss Julie .

Every summer, at least one would-be blockbuster turns out to be such a big fat bomb that it leaves a massive crater on the backlot of the Hollywood studio that produced it.

Will Ferrell was obviously trying to be funny. Unfortunately, he wasn't succeeding.

W hatever Works, Woody Allen's 40th movie as writer and director, begins with a ghostly visitation from the distant past of Jewish-American comedy.so distant it predates not only Allen's career but also his birth, in 1935.

It would be easy - even tempting - to overpraise Emmanuel Mouret's Shall We Kiss? simply because it hit town the same week as what Hollywood is currently peddling as a romantic comedy, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past .

In the four decades that he's been making films, Woody Allen has become as synonymous with New York as bagels and Broadway.

Terminator Salvation : May 21. You've already heard star Christian Bale's obscene rant on-set, so what happens when he turns that intensity on the bad guys in this movie? Bale plays John Connor, who leads the human resistance against the machines that take over after a nuclear holocaust.

For its eighth installment, the film festival frequently criticized for its sprawl and unwieldiness returns in trimmer shape: 85 features will unspool at this year's Tribeca, down from last year's 120 and fewer than half of 2005's record high of 176 titles.

The Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate Woody Allen's return to making films in New York by showing his new movie on the festival's opening night on April 22.

The Shanghai String Quartet - known for passionate musicality, virtuosic technique and multicultural innovations - has been celebrating its 25th anniversary season in signature style with globetrotting ...

The new film should hit theatres in 2010. Source: Variety Naomi Watts and Slumdog Millionaire 's Frida Pinto have both reportedly signed on to star in Woody Allen's latest project.