Woody Allen eyes Copenhagen for next film

PanARMENIAN.Net - Woody Allen is looking to continue his tour of great European capitals. The Oscar-winning director is eying Copenhagen as the location for his next, still-untitled feature, The Hollywood Reporter said.

It would be Allen's first film set in Denmark and would follow Allen's Oscar-winning take on France in Midnight in Paris, the London of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Match Point, the Spanish setting of Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Rome, where his upcoming feature Nero Fiddled, starring Ellen Page, Penelope Cruz and Jesse Eisenberg, is set.

Letty Aronson, producer of all of Allen's European-set features, which started with 2005's Match Point, is in talks with Per Holst - the Danish producer of Oscar-winner Pelle The Conqueror (1987) - for a 2013 shoot in the Danish capital.

Allen's Lets Go Europe! approach to filmmaking has proven financially fertile for the septuagenarian director as the Euro set up allows Allen to tap lucrative film subsidies to bankroll his projects. Copenhagen is currently setting up a regional film fund to attract international co-productions. It's support, as well as significant Danish government backing of the film, will be a prerequisite to securing Allen for a Scandinavian shoot next year.