![]() Netflix and Venice are besties, so it would be a surprise if the streamer doesn’t go with the Italian festival for this bit of award-season catnip. Here’s hoping Adam Driver, who plays Enzo, has mastered his Italian accent, after the cringe-worthy intonations on display in Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci.Ĭooper’s coming out as a director was at the 2018 Venice premiere of A Star Is Born, and the festival is certain to welcome his sophomore effort from Netflix, which sees Cooper play legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, with Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre. Mann’s hotly-anticipated biopic, based on Brock Yates’ biography of Italian race car driver legend Enzo Ferrari, is racing towards a Venice premiere, likely in an out-of-competition slot. Zendaya, West Side Story‘s Mike Faist and God’s Own Country star Josh O’Connor star as former friends/teen tennis rivals who meet up years later in a tournament that opens up old wounds. ![]() Italian auteur Guadagnino is a Lido fave - his teen cannibal love story Bones and All might have divided critics, but the Venice audience lapped it up - and his new feature looks a perfect festival fit. ![]() The ensemble cast, which includes Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael and Margaret Qualley, will make this one of Venice’s hottest tickets. Lanthimos’ new feature, a genre mash-up of steampunk, rom-com and period drama starring The Favourite‘s Emma Stone as a woman brought back to life by a 19th-century scientist, looks like a Lido lock after Lanthimos skipped Cannes. The Greek king of disturbing surrealism scored his biggest crossover hit with 2018’s The Favourite, a Venice premiere. Here’s what THR sources are saying could be Lido-bound this year: It’s an impressive - if at this point still entirely theoretical, lineup - featuring new movies from the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos, Michael Mann, Bradley Cooper, Sofia Coppola and Luca Guadagnino, with a red-carpet crowd that includes the likes of Zendaya, Pedro Pascal, Michelle Yeoh, Emma Stone, Penelope Cruz, Mark Ruffalo, Lilly James, Carey Mulligan, LaKeith Stanfield, Jodie Foster, Adam Driver, Jessica Chastain, Ramy Youssef and Peter Sarsgaard. We are still at the stage of wild speculation, but judging by release dates, the relationships the festival has built up with studios and filmmakers, and growing buzz over the industry grapevine, The Hollywood Reporter has drawn up its first list of titles that could make the cut. ![]() But the glare of the Venice spotlight can also prove harsh, as Olivia Wilde discovered when the out-of-competition screening of Don’t Worry Darling was overshadowed by behind-the-scenes “scandal” and the now-notorious “spit-gate” incident at the festival premiere. ![]() Inside the Glorious - and Troubled - History of Italy's Taormina Film Festivalīrendan Fraser’s triumphant run for the best actor Oscar began with the 2022 Venice premiere of The Whale, and both Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin and Todd Field’s Tár owe much of their later awards success - nine Oscar nominations for Banshees, six for Tár - to the jubilant reception at last year’s festival. All eyes will be on long-time artistic director Alberto Barbera, who has earned his spot on the podium of the top-tier festivals by successfully blending the needs of the studio and streamer blockbusters - which look to Venice as a splashy platform to generate buzz ahead of an international rollout - with the independent and art-house titles that use the Lido to generate critical buzz and kick off their award-season campaigns. Venice will be expected to bring its A-game, especially after Cannes delivered an impressive 2023 lineup (featuring the likes of Indiana Jones 5, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Todd Haynes’ May December, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, plus Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall). The Venice Film Festival won’t be unveiling its full 2023 lineup until next month at the earliest, but producers, studios and streamers are already prepping the projects they hope to be premiering on the Lido this year for the festival’s 80th-anniversary edition, which will be running Aug. ![]()
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