Sony Pictures Classics announced today that the company has acquired the North American distribution rights to Woody Allen’s upcoming period piece/romantic comedy titled Magic in the Moonlight.
Magic in the Moonlight takes place in South France during the glamorous Jazz Age of the 1920s. The romantic comedy is set around “an Englishman brought (Colin Firth) in to help unmask a possible swindle.” The film is currently in post-production and stars Mr. Firth, Emma Stone, Marcia Gay Harden, Eileen Atkins, Hamish Linklater, Simon McBurney and Jacki Weaver.
Sony Pictures Classics has teamed with Allen on his last four projects Midnight in Paris, To Rome with Love, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger and this past spring’s Blue Jasmine. The last film Allen set in France was 2011’s surprise hit Midnight in Paris, so hopefully reuniting Allen with that setting will rekindle some of the magic from the previous film.
With the recent critical and financial success of Blue Jasmine and Midnight in Paris, along with the awards attention it has garnered, one imagines that Sony Pictures Classics will be reuniting with Allen for the foreseeable future.
Magic in the Moonlight‘s release date is currently to be announced.
Source: Variety
