How much does an actor, director Woody Allen earn if his films are gaining $ 30 million a week? How does he manage to remain successful in his 80s, after the scandalous accusations of violence and other hard-hitting moments in life? Who is he and where is he from? How did you get to the very top of fame?
Woody Allen is considered by many to be a big child, which does not fit in with the fact that he makes multimillion-dollar films at the box office. Who is he really - the Woody Allen human phenomenon?
Cult Director or Big Kid?
Woody Allen's parents - emigrants from Lithuania and Austria - came to New York without knowing a word of English. The boy's father worked first as a waiter, then as an engraver, his mother kept the accounting department of her own small confectionery enterprise.
The future cult director was born in early December 1935. When he was only 6 years old, the Second World War began, which affected the economy of America, far from it. In order to somehow help his family and parents, at the age of 12, the boy began to write jokes for city newspapers of a regional scale - Brooklyn.
After graduating from high school, despite the protests of his parents, Woody decides to enroll in communications and cinematography courses at New York University. Father and mother took this step of their son as childish, but it was he who led him to the status of a cult director and a successful comedian actor.
With age, Woody Allen did not become more serious. He could, like in his school years, suddenly join a basketball game, make changes to the script, shoot a scandalous scene in a classic film of the genre. Such actions are characteristic of Woody, but they in no way diminish his importance in world cinema.
Woody Allen's creative path
A slyly wise look from behind glasses with thick horn-rimmed lenses, laughter through tears, no longer red, but gray, but all the same slightly disheveled hair - this is Woody Allen. What is hidden behind this unassuming appearance? A sea of talent, sparkling ideas, the desire to express their emotions openly and in full, the desire to teach how to think and live in the same way in the frame of the actors working with him. And Woody's work is a fair of contradictions, like his entire career, life in general.
He did not graduate from the university, he could not resist even in a specialized college, but managed to achieve incredible success. Starting to write sketches for New York newspapers, Allen suddenly received an offer to write a script for a comedy film and, unexpectedly for himself, became a successful journalist.
To date, Woody Allen's filmography includes nearly 60 paintings. He is successful both as an actor and as a screenwriter, producer, director, musician and writer. Life-contradiction, life-success - only an extraordinary and unusually talented person could create such a combination. And what about scandals? Maybe they are part of a career, a PR move, another whim of a big child?
Woody Allen's income
His films are always consistently box-office. Here are just a few examples of the success of this plan of director and actor Woody Allen: the fee for "Midnight in Paris" - $ 24.8 million, "Magic of Moonlight" - 25 million, "High life" - 36 million. How much does Woody himself earn Allen? What percentage does he receive from the box office as a director or as an actor?
Several years ago, some American media published publications in which they claimed that the annual total income of Woody Allen was at least $ 65 million. The journalists referred to reliable sources, even the official ones, but did not name them. Whether these were people from the environment of the director himself, his financiers or tax authorities is unknown.
Woody himself did not comment on these publications in any way, saying only that he pays taxes on all his income, he is not obliged to explain to anyone. This response is characteristic of the "New York neurotic", as journalists like to call him.
After the scandal with Woody Allen's adopted daughter, who accused him of violence. Many Hollywood stars have publicly announced that they will no longer work with him, but the "big kid" and "neurotic" continues to film, shoot and receive income from his activities.
Woody Allen scandals
In 2016, a scandal broke out around the cult director, initiated by his son. He reminded the public that his 80-year-old father's adopted daughter accused her stepfather of harassment and violence. According to his son, the father hushed up the situation, paid "who needs it" so that the scandal would not flare up.
Allen's son tried to kindle the fire of a scandal before - he published a letter that his half-sister allegedly wrote in his social networks, but, unfortunately, he did not receive a proper response from the public.
The investigation into the violence by the director against 7-year-old adopted daughter Dylan was carried out back in 1992, when her mother demanded it after her divorce from Allen. Investigative actions did not help prove Woody's guilt. His son decided to "continue" the business many years later, but his efforts were unsuccessful. Then the journalists suggested that in such a dirty way Allen attracted attention to himself, but is he justified? Isn't that too much even for a "big child" and a "neurotic"? Woody Allen himself does not react in any way to newspaper publications and the indignation of colleagues in the shop about these rumors and conjectures.
