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January has been a miserable month for Woody Allen.
No criminal charges have been filed against the filmmaker.
I have not worked with him again, and I will not work with him again.
And those repudiations came close on the heels of other disavowals.
(In a November Facebook post, Ellen Page said she was ashamed to have worked with Allen.)
Amazon declined to comment for this article.
One challenge the studio will face is the issue of optics in a postRoy PriceAmazon.
They can show the community who they are by being aggressive.
And the producers would never sue.
Youd look like a fucking moron if you sue for damages.
If Im handling this internally, I say, Lets hold our water.
Lets not date this thing yet.
Lets see if this thing blows over.
Woody would not have signed a contract with Amazon that did not guarantee theatrical distribution.
But they could say, Woody, we have a problem.
We need to renegotiate.
This is going to be a horrible analogy but its like the Alabama voters who turned out forRoy Moore.
Woody will always have his fans no matter what.
