Woody Allen‘s Midnight in Paris is not only his highest grossing film in his nearly fifty year film career but has also been nominated for a number of prestigious awards (and will likely be an Oscar contender). According to Deadline, Sony Pictures Classics — which released Midnight in Paris in the United States and Canada — has scooped up the distribution rights to Allen’s next film, Nero Fiddled, for North America and the United Kingdom. The division previously distributed Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown, Whatever Works, and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. Allen has had some box office hits in the twenty-first century (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Match Point) and some bombs (Cassandra’s Dream, Anything Else), so Sony is hoping for another Midnight in Paris.
Allen changed the name of the film from The Bop Decameron to Nero Fiddled because hardly anyone knew what the original title meant, which is as good of a reason to change a movie’s title than anything else. The film stars Allen himself, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page and is made up of four vignettes set in Rome. No release date is set, but it’s likely to be in summer 2012. I’d assume if Midnight in Paris does well during the Oscars Sony will want to release it soon afterward, though.
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