While Netflix might be - so far - the streaming site turned production company with the largest advantage, Amazon Studios has still managed to bag a few big-shot deals for their coming productions, including a deal with the multiple Oscar-winning director of "Midnight in Paris," but Woody Allen's Amazon work is being questioned amid resurfaced allegations against him.
Last year, as he was honored a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Golden Globes, Allen's former partner Mia Farrow and their son Ronan resurfaced accusations made against him by Dylan Farrow, his adopted daughter with Mia, saying that he had molested her when she was a child - and these allegations are making Woody Allen's Amazon deal very awkward in times of explaining.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Woody Allen's Amazon deal was under focus during the Television Critics Association's press summer tour currently underway, as last Monday it was the time for Amazon Studios to discuss upcoming programming.
As Entertainment Weekly reports, things got awkward for the chief of the studio, Roy Price, when one of the reporters asked a very simple question: whether Woody Allen's Amazon deal was right given the recently resurfaced accusations against him.
According to The Huffington Post, the studio "completely defected" questioning regarding Woody Allen's Amazon involvement, as the studio remains tight-lipped about how the series will be - and, most of all, the ethical and moral issues about working with a man who has been accused of molesting a young girl.
"Our focus is on the fact that he's a great filmmaker and storyteller and so we look forward to the show in 2016," said Price to the press last Monday. "You know, Woody Allen is one of the greatest filmmakers America has ever produced, and people are going to be talking about Woody's films for a long, long time," he said. "And we said, 'What if we asked Woody himself to do a show?' And I think that was really our focus."
It seems like the studios is trying really hard to keep the focus on the work instead of Woody Allen's Amazon involvement given the recent situation.
