Variety.com - Weinsteins, Woody Allen team up

Variety.com - Weinsteins, Woody Allen team up: "TWC picks up 'Cassandra's Dream'
By ANNE THOMPSON

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The Weinsteins are getting back into the Woody Allen business.

The Weinstein Co. has acquired U.S., Australian, and New Zealand rights to Woody Allen's suspense drama 'Cassandra's Dream,' starring Ewan McGregor, Colin Farrell and Tom Wilkinson.

Wild Bunch handled worldwide foreign sales at the Cannes market for the film, written and directed by Allen and produced by Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum, and Gareth Wiley. The filmmaker now pre-sells his films around the world.

Allen turned down a Cannes closing-night berth for the pic, which will likely make its debut at the upcoming Venice Film Festival.

While heading Miramax Films, Bob and Harvey Weinstein distributed Allen's 'Everyone Says I Love You,' 'Mighty Aphrodite,' 'Bullets Over Broadway' and 'Celebrity.'

'Cassandra's Dream' marks Allen's third pic to be set in London, after 'Scoop,' which Focus Features released to a $10.5 million Stateside gross, and DreamWorks' 'Match Point,' which topped out at $23 million in North America. 'Cassandra's Dream's' tragic tale of two brothers and their entangled relationships marks a return to a darker palette for the filmmaker."