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The freelance press corps at the Venice Film Festival is not happy. There's growing discontent among its ranks over the decision by a handful of big productions – such as Pablo Larraín's Maria and Luca Guardagnino's Queer – not to offer wider interview opportunities outside of the main press…

Angelina Jolie hit the Lido today, ahead of the world premiere of Pablo Larraín's Maria Callas biopic, Maria. Speaking with the Venice Film Festival press corps this afternoon, the star said that embodying the legendary opera singer gave her a "new relationship" to the term "diva." The word "comes with a…

Accepting his party's nomination for president for a third time, Donald Trump addressed the Republican National Convention in July, returning to a familiar theme. "We… have an illegal immigration crisis, and it's taking place right now, as we sit here in this beautiful arena," he told delegates…

1970s New York.  Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, Studio 54, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.  It's a period that has been explored to death, with countless works on the 'scene' across the city. Is there really anything fresh or engaging to be said about that time or its main protagonists? Scottish filmmaker…

The first four episodes of Alfonso Cuarón's limited series, Disclaimer, are world premiering today at the Venice Film Festival. Oscar winners Cuarón, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline convened with the press ahead of the screening. The show marks Cuarón’s first directorial credit since his 2019 Best…

Of all the policies implemented by the Trump administration, the most outrageous — at least to many critics — was Family Separation. Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris, for one, doesn't mince words in his assessment of it. "The policy, when you really look at it square in the face, is…

The Ghost with the Most just took a 4 minute-plus bow in the Sala Grande as Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice world premiered as the opening movie of the Venice Film Festival this evening. After the movie ended, the crowd gave an enthusiastic 4-minute, 35-second bow clapping to the beat of the…

Netflix has snapped up U.S. rights to Maria, the biopic of opera singer Maria Callas, teaming Spencer helmer Pablo Larraín and Angelina Jolie, which is premiering Thursday at the Venice Film Festival. This is Netflix’s second film with Larraín directing following last year’s El Conde, which received…

The Venice Film Festival officially kicked off Wednesday evening with an emotional Sigourney Weaver receiving the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award. Enthused Weaver from the Lido’s Sala Grande stage, "I want to roar!" The three-time Oscar nominee thanked the festival for what she called a "jet-fuel…

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice had its world premiere this evening as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival. Its stars were out in force with Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux and Catherine O'Hara treading the carpet alongside director Tim…

EXCLUSIVE: "They're all gone." Those were the harrowing, unforgettable words, delivered by ABC TV’s Wide World of Sports host Jim McKay that 11 Israeli athletes had been slaughtered by Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics. McKay's marathon 16-hour stint anchoring the shattering…

Oh no, you've done it now: You said that name three times, so he's out! Yep, it's Michael Keaton's compellingly horrible undead Beetlejuice, still large as life and twice as unnatural, still with the sweaty black circles around his eyes, still barking and twitching like an automaton gone rogue…