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Watch: Woody Allen at Madrid Press Conference for 51st Movie: “It Has to Live Up to My Expectations, But I’ll Do My Best!”

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Woody Allen is amazing.

At 90, he’s arrived in Madrid to make his 51st movie. The working title is “Madrid,” he says, but that won’t the final name.

This morning he participated in a press conference where he was welcomed to the city and introduced two of his main actors. The cast includes Marton Csokas, Jemima Kirke, Jakob Oftebro, Peter Vives and Alexi Wasser. Shooting begins next week. The plot is being kept under wraps.

Needless to say, the people in the filled auditorium gave Woody — whose legacy resume includes Annie Hall, Manhattan, Midnight in Paris, Coup de Chance, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, Blue Jasmine, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Bananas, and so many more, a warm welcome!

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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