The 65th Venice Film Festival is set to take place at the end of August. And, unfortunately for the U.S., we will not have a lot of films premiering this year.
Blame it on the writers’ strike.
Director Marco Mueller says, “One of the effects of the strike is that so many releases of movies that would have been right for Venice have been pushed by the studios to December, or even later. Very few [studios] were willing to run the risk of piracy by world premiering a movie so many months before its theatrical release.”
One of the few U.S. movies in the competition is The Burning Plain, directed by Guillermo Arriaga.
The film stars Charlize Theron who plays a woman tormented by a rough childhood and includes Kim Basinger as her mother.
And opening up for the film festival will be Burn After Reading, a “dark spy comedy” which stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand.
Poppa Pitt is expected at the premiere, though we’re guessing Angelina will stay behind to take care of the kiddies.
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