Random thought on Woody Allen: I think the whole practice of a studio/distributor jumping on a filmmaker whose most recent picture was a hit might not apply to him. He\’ll probably always find financing, but even though MIP was his biggest earner of all time (unadjusted), I don\’t think studios like Universal or WB will start banging down his door, begging him to come back to America for good.

I think the performance of his movies will always be a complete crapshoot. It\’s hard to predict if it\’ll do his average $4-5 million, be a bomb like Cassandra\’s Dream, or a relative smash like MIP or Match Point.

Any way, I just hope he keeps churning them out. Good or bad, Woody Allen movies are the closest the film medium comes to having a TV show that\’s been on the air, season after season, for 35 years.