After more than 50 films shot, 4 Oscar awards out of 24 nominations, 4 Golden Globes, 2 awards at the Venice Film Festival and various other awards, Woody Allen announces that he will retire from the cinema after the release of his next film .
The 86-year-old director will begin production on his latest work, Wasp 22 in the fall: “My idea is to stop making films and concentrate on writing,” he said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia. His next project will be a novel .
The enthusiasm for cinema has passed, “also for the new rules on the release of films in theaters and their rapid transition to video streaming”.
In his long career, Allen received a record 16 Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay . He won four Academy Awards, including one for Best Director for 1977's Annie and Me.
His most recent film is Rifkin's Festival, which grossed just $ 2.3 million, reaching the United States in a limited release.
His latest work, Wasp 22, calls it " a kind of poisonous romantic thriller ", comparing it to his 2005 Match Point. The film is set to shoot in Paris with an all-French cast.
(Unioneonline / L)
