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Scoop

Year:

2006

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Comedy | Mystery

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Woody Allen

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2006-09-15

Filming Locations: CityPoint, Moorgate, London, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $4,000,000

Opening Weekend: $3,046,924 (USA) (30 July 2006)

Gross: $10,525,717 (USA) (28 September 2006)

Cast

Actor

Character

Scarlett Johansson

Scoop

Jim Dunk

Funeral Speaker

Robert Bathurst

Strombel's Co-Worker

Geoff Bell

Strombel's Co-Worker

Christopher Fulford

Strombel's Co-Worker

Nigel Lindsay

Strombel's Co-Worker

Ian McShane

Joe Strombel

Fenella Woolgar

Jane Cook

Pete Mastin

Death

Doreen Mantle

Joe's Co-Passenger

David Schneider

Joe's Co-Passenger

Meera Syal

Joe's Co-Passenger

Kevin McNally

Mike Tinsley

Robyn Kerr

Tinsley's Fan #1

Richard Stirling

Tinsley's Fan

Romola Garai

Vivian

Carolyn Backhouse

Vivian's Mother

Guo Toa

Jar Spinner

Sam Friend

Vivian's Brother

Mark Heap

Woody Allen

Sid Waterman

Suzy Kewer

Splendini's Assistant

Jody Halse

Stagehand

Matt Day

Jerry Burke

Elizabeth Berrington

Antique Shop Woman

Rupert Frazer

Antique Shop Man

Christopher Godwin

Desk Clerk

Hugh Jackman

Peter Lyman

Julian Glover

Lord Lyman

Paula Wilcox

Garden Party Guest

John Standing

Garden Party Guest

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Poker Player (as Sanjeev Bhasker)

John Light

Poker Player

Tina Rath

Wendy Beamish

Caroline Blakiston

Mrs. Quincy

Richard Johnson

Mr. Quincy

William Hoyland

Butler

Moya Brady

Screamer

Rosie Cavaliero

Pedestrian

Anthony O'Donnell

Pedestrian

Charles Dance

Mr. Malcolm

Lynda Baron

Tenant

Phil Cornwell

Tenant

Victoria Hamilton

Jan

Meg Wynn Owen

Housekeeper

Alexander Armstrong

Cop

Anthony Head

Detective

Julia Deakin

Sid's Co-Passenger

Margaret Tyzack

Sid's Co-Passenger

Jeffry Wickham

Sid's Co-Passenger

Alex Argenti

Resident Meeting Ghost (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The song that plays at the end of the movie, and used predominately as the theme throughout is called "In The Hall of the Mountain King".

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The lead character (originally an adult journalist) was tailored specifically to Johansson, whom Woody Allen observed as having an unused "funny" quality about her while working on the previous film Match Point (2005).

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Scoop is one of three 2006 films to feature both the topic of magic and magicians as main characters. The other two are The Illusionist (2006) and The Prestige (2006), the second of which also stars Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson. Woody Allen was tutored magic and illusion for the movie by Scott Penrose.

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Goofs

When Peter is telling Sondra about the murder when they are out on the lake, the sky on Sondra's side alternate from dark to light between the shots.

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Peter never asks Sondra how she got into his secure room to find the Tarot cards under the French Horn.

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When Sondra sits in the boat with Peter before he pushes her into the lake she wears beige / light brown clothes. When she returns to the house and happens upon Peter and the policemen, being still wet, her clothes are dark brown, almost black. That's too dark to be wet beige. It can't be muddy either, because the rest of her (hands, hair, face) are clean.

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Quotes

Sondra Pransky: [Peter told them he'd be out of town but then they spotted him across the street] I just can't believe he lied to me!

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Sondra Pransky: What are you going to tell the police? "The guy owns a deck of tarot cards... " that's not a crime!

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Sondra Pransky: [Speaking of the ghost] Look, the spirit appeared next to me. at first I thought he was one of your stooges.

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Faq

How does it end?

The real Tarot Cards serial killer is caught and confesses. Sid discovers Peter isn't a serial killer, but he did murder Elizabeth Gibson. On the way to save Sondra, he drives off the road and is killed.Believing she can't swim, Peter leaves Sondra in the middle of the lake, and calls the police. When they arrive, she shows up.

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