Although it's $38 million gross to date may seem like chump change in an era in which films that gross a half-billion dollars are considered to be "disappointments", Woody Allen's wonderful and quirky romance Midnight in Paris is now poised to be the biggest grossing movie of his long career. Allen has always eschewed commercial films in favor of those that appeal to urban art house crowds. The perpetually glum artiste continues to point out that his Best Picture Oscar winner of 1977- Annie Hall - is still among the lowest-grossing movies to receive the accolade. (Not that Allen even bothered to show up at the ceremony to collect his prize, opting instead to play with his jazz band at a New York night club.) Still, it's nice to know there is an audience that remains for such intelligent and uncompromising directors and their films. Click here for more - Lee Pfeiffer
(Note: Since this story was prepared, the grosses for the film have climbed to $41 million, making it indisputably Allen's biggest grossing movie to date)