Woody Allen's 'A Rainy Day in New York' shelved indefinitely by Amazon

Widely acclaimed director Woody Allen’s next film ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ has been indefinitely put on hold by Amazon Studios reportedly. It is said that the film that stars a bevy of actors might never see the light of the day in the wake of a sexual assault case against Allen. 

The film marks fourth collaboration between the 82-year-old director and Amazon Studios, after ‘Cafe Society’, ‘Crisis in Six Scenes’ and ‘Wonder Wheel’. In 2016, the studio had signed a Times deal with Allen who has been releasing a feature every year since 1982.

In an interaction with Page Six, Amazon said that "no release date had ever been set" for the film that had concluded filming in 2017. 

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The film stars ‘Call Me by Your Name’ actor Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Elle Fanning, Rebecca Hall and Jude Law. 

On the issue of never releasing the film, Elle Fanning said, “There’s a lot of news about this but they haven’t told me anything. ‘You just have to try to come to terms with it. I feel like the experience that I had matters the most at the end of the day, and you do some great work and literally, no one is going to see it… but that’s the way it is.”

Woody Allen raked up a controversy when in the middle of #MeToo movement and Harvey Weinstein scandal, he was accused of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter Dylan Farrow when she was a seven-year-old in the early 1990s. Soon after, actors like Michael Caine, Greta Gerwig, Kate Winslet and others expressed regret over working with the director. 

Rebecca Hall and Timothée Chalamet had announced that they will be donating their salaries from ‘A Rainy Day in New York’ to charities in support of sexual abuse victims.