EXCLUSIVE: Woody Allen has begun to cast up his next film, and it looks like Emma Stone will play his leading lady. Stone is in talks on the film. These stories are the easiest to write, since Allen keeps his plots, titles, and everything else under his hat. About all you can say is who will be in it, and I expect Stone to close a deal soon. Allen most recently completed Blue Jasmine, with Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Louis C.K. leading the cast. Stone has a lot going on, including the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed dark comedy Birdman, the untitled film that Cameron Crowe will direct, and she will reprise as Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

UPDATE: Here is a bit more information on Woody Allen’s next film. I’m told he will shoot in the South of France. That country certainly worked out for him in Midnight In Paris.

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Emma Stone has declared that she was amazed when she watched her new animated film The Croods for the first time. The Croods features the voices of Stone, Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds in the tale of a caveman family who explore the world after a severe earthquake. In an interview with Flicks and Bits, Stone reflected on her first viewing of the DreamWorks comedy.

“That was incredible, it was amazing,” she recalled. “I think The Croods has elements of all of my favorite movies, which is that it’s not just funny and it’s not just heartbreaking, it takes you on a journey throughout the entire film.”

Stone went on to reveal that she even shed a tear while watching the prehistoric family’s journey to find a new home.

“I cried watching it, and I laughed, and I just went along for the ride and enjoyed myself the entire time,” she admitted.

The star further explained. “Throughout recording it you come in and you’re doing different things on different days, and then when you see how everything plays out in the end you realize that the messages – which there are many in the film – stick with you after the fact, but you’re not sitting there watching it thinking about the ‘themes’, you’re sitting there enjoying this family.

“I loved that. It’s different than any other animated movie that I’ve seen, in a sense that it feels so true to life the whole entire time – even though we are in the Stone Age.”

The Croods opens on March 22 in the US and the UK. Watch a trailer below:

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