ABOUT Match Point:

Jonathan plays: Chris Wilton
About: "Match Point is a drama about a young man's rise in society and the terrible consequences of his ambition. The protagonist is torn between two women and finding no way out, resorts to extreme action. The actors are all English and it is set amongst the English upper class with Scarlett Johansson playing the beautiful American girl who comes between Jonathan Rhys Meyers and his wife Emily Mortimer. Matthew Goode is Emily's wealthy brother who initates the tragic events."
Directed by: Woody Allen

Cannes Film festival pictures

Pictures 1-11 are taken from GettyImages -Cast arriving for Photo call at the Cannes Film Festival 2005
Pictures 1-5 -Cast arriving for Photo call at the Cannes Film Festival 12th May 2005.
Pictures 6-12 -Cast at Premiere of Match Point that evening.

Pictures 13-15 are taken from Cannes Film Festival website
Pictures 16-17 are taken from Coming Soon.net
Pictures 18-32 are taken from Encranlarge.com

Here is my diary of me and my friend trying to track down the film set in summer 2004:

Woody Allen will be filming this project in July 2004, and it will be his first movie shot entirly in London

Backed in part by BBC Films, the as-yet-untitled project is scheduled to shoot entirely on location in and around London in July and August. Details on storyline are not available at the moment. But we do know that the Budget for this movie is $15 million dollars (£2.25 million pounds)

"I'm very excited about the prospect of making a film in London," Allen said in a statement. "I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York. My family and I love the idea of spending the summer here. I only hope I can live up to the high standards of British movies I grew up with."

So far the cast looks like this:

Brian Cox
Emily Mortimer
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Scarlett Johansson
Matthew Goode
James Nesbitt

Scarlett Johansson is now replacing Kate Winslet who pulled out of this movie to family commitments

I will hopefully over the course of the next few weeks find out more about this being shot in London and hopefully as I live near London, go down to the set and meet Jonny

Though Woddy Allen is know for keeping movies under wraps........

Tuesday 13th: ?? we don't know where they filmed

Wednesday 14th: again we're not sure

Thursday 15th: Chelsea, just off the King's Road!

I haven't gone to any of these, but next week my friend is coming from Manchester so well go to London and see what we can find

It looks like they shoot in different places at the moment, but as they are only just filmed one week so far, we may find more info!!

Monday: We went in the Afternoon to Ealing Studios (on the off chance!)
Tuesday: Went to Moxan Carpark -where there had be sighting of the actors/actresses trailers -but nothing was there!, we were then told Ealing Studios again -but still nothing!
Wednesday (our day off) apparently they filmed along near the Tate Modern
Thursday: Tried Notting Hill, as they have been filming outside a shop called "Paul & Joe" -we found nothing. Jenny had to catch the bus home at 3pm!

So we failed our mission, though when more promising news comes through, I will go and hunt some more (on my own!)

Monday 2nd August, they were filming in London's West End

Tuesday 3rd: I went to Baron's Court -Queens Tennis Courts, and they were filming, I was told they were just wrapping it up, and the security bloke (first set of security) wouldn't let me get any glimes or autograph. BUT at least for once I have been in the same place at the right time of them filming!!

Wednesday 4th: They were doing more filming at the Queens Tennis Courts -but I didn't go, especially after they wouldn't let me get an autograph.

the only other downside to not meeting Jonny is that this movie has been "wrapped" -its finished filming

Chris Wilton, a young tennis instructor, becomes involved with a wealthy family, one member of which he's teaching tennis. This leads to his rise in the world of upper class people and his subsequent romantic involvement with two women. A clandestine affair follows, leading him into a ever deepening quagmire until the only way out for him is to contemplate doing away with one of the women. This story is romantic, socially critical and suspenseful in a Hitchcockian way.
The ending will come as a surprise.

Running Time: 90 mins
Director: Woody Allen
Producers: Letty Aronson, Lucy Darwin, Stephen Tenenbaum, Gareth Wiley
Executive Producers: Steven Tenenbaum, Michael Dounaev, Jimmy de Brabant
Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Director of Photography: Remi Adefarasin
Leading Players: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Brian Cox, Woody Allen, Emily Mortimer, James Nessbitt

taken from British films

The Movie is due to hit the UK cinema screens summer 2005

CS!: Do you ever wish you had $100 million to direct a film?
Allen: I wish I had the hundred mill, but it's very hard. In my lifetime, the average film went from 50 and 60 million dollars to 100 million dollar films and considerably more. I'm making films where everything, including my salary, will be a maximum of 14 or 15 million dollars. It's tough, because there's a lot of things I want to do that I can't do. When I did this next film that hasn't come out yet, Match Point (this is his first conformation on the title -Hannah), they said to me that I wasn't going to be able to afford music. I figured out a way I was able to convince an opera company that was putting out an Enrico Caruso album to get the music. There's a lot of things you can't do like any kind of special effects or reshooting things.

CS!: Can you tell us anything about your next movie, Match Point?
Allen: It's a film that I shot in England with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Myers, who are brilliant. I rarely work overseas, but I got a situation that was very good for me. They gave me the money, no questions asked, and the atmosphere was wonderful. I worked in the summer. It was cool in London. The skies were all gray, which is great for photography, and there are no unions (laughter) which is a wonderful thing, not just financially, but because everybody can help out and do the other person's job without infringing. It's like making a student film in the best sense of the word. The guy that does the lunches can also stop traffic for you, whereas here, they can't do that.

I found this Interview on comingsoon.net

MURDER most foul takes place in Woody Allen's new movie Match Point, his first to be shot in London -but i'm not aloud to tell you who dies.

The movie had its first gala screening in Cannes last night [12th May], where it was being shown out of competition.

The suspects (or victims) in the film include: Scarlett Johansson, playing an out-of-work actress from Boulder, Colorado; Matthew Goode, as her young-man-about-town fiance; Brian Cox's interfering wife Emily Mortimer, there daughter; and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily's tormented Irish Tennis player Husband. Got all that? Good.

Allen said yesterday that he'd origionally penned the script to be shot on his regular Manhattan turf but felt financiers and producers in the UK (who include BBC Films, Lucy Darwin and Gareth Wiley) would be more inclined to leave him alone to shoot the movie his way.

Ms Johansson's character is something of a scarlet woman, although the actress disagreed with the description. 'She's less a femme fatale than a sexy girl' she said. 'Passion overcomes her.'

Talking of which, there's more sex in this movie than one would find in other Allen pictures.

There's a very saucy moment when Ms Johansson,wearing a lilic linen blouse and no brassiere, steps into a garden during a rainstorm. It appears to have been cold outside that day. She and Mr Rhys-Meyers then engage in a pretty steamy romp.

Ms Johansson is scorching in this movie. But then so too, in a slowburn kind of way, is Ms Mortimer, who captures the essence of a liberal conservative blueblood who believes in hard work, culture and a woman's right to have three kids.

Allen's good with his actors and the performances have an easy flow about them.

He and Ms Johansson will shoot another film -this time for Oscar winning producer Jeremy Thomas -in London this summer.

Typed up by me
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My dertimation paid off... I actually met Jonathan :D and so its got its whole page about the meeting

MEETING JONATHAN

On Movie Phones website you can view exclusive video footage of Jonathan and Scarlett Johannson

Jonathan and Scarlett Unscripted by Moviefone