Woody Allen’s 49th film as writer-director, “A Rainy Day in New York,” put in the can in 2018, never came out in the U.S. due to Allen being axed via 25-year-old #MeToo allegations, which he still fervently denies. The film was completed in 2018, but its distributor, Amazon Studios, halted the release of the film following the controversy.
Suffice to say, no U.S. distributor wanted to touch ‘Rainy Day’ (the film was originally part of the Amazon deal that Allen had signed with them). And so, cinephiles were left with the choice of illegally downloading the damn thing, which is obviously far better than the other option, which is just never seeing it. Thank you, internet.
Europe seems to have had no problem with the film, as it’s already opened in France, Portugal, Austria, Germany, U.K, Norway, Sweden Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Netherlands, Turkey, France, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, and Mexico.
However, the wokest countries in the world (the U.S, and the U.K.) decided to abstain and boycott Allen’s latest. You see, Woody is still toxic to the woke tyrannicals in these countries. However, thanks to Signature Entertainment, the UK-based home release distributor, it appears that the U.S. could finally be getting Allen’s film.
“A Rainy Day in New York” is set to hit select U.S. theaters next month, MPI Media Group and Signature Entertainment announced Thursday.The film, starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez and Elle Fanning, will open on October 9 in Chicago, Boston and Atlanta theatres before expanding the following week to additional theaters and markets.
it took a pandemic for this sucker to finally get released.
Meanwhile, Allen has a new movie coming out this fall titled “Rifkin’s Festival.” Shot in San Sebastian, Spain, the film stars Christoph Waltz, Gina Gershon, Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, and Sergi Lopez. Tripictures has picked up the film for a fall release in Spain, and it is also now set to premiere at the San Sebastián Film Festival on September 18th as the opening night film of that event.
Here’s the teaser for Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial,” which Neon has officially dated for a December 25, 2026 release. I’ve also posted some first look images below.