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Iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve will be presented with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 79th Venice Film Festival which runs August 31–September 10 on the Lido. The Oscar nominee for 1992’s Indochine said today, "It is a joy to receive this prestigious award at the Venice Festival, which I love…

Audrey Diwan’s planned English language directing debut, the erotic tale Emmanuelle starring Lea Seydoux, has buyers buzzing as much as any Cannes Market package being shopped this week on the Croisette. But her last film Happening (which didn’t make the cut as France’s choice for Best Foreign Language Film, though…

Filmmaker Paul Schrader has been set to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The Raging Bull and Taxi Driver screenwriter will be presented with the honor during the 79th edition of the event which runs August 31- September 10 on the Lido. In accepting the award…

The Venice Film Festival says it will not ban Russian filmmakers or their films this year, as long as they are opposed to the current regime in the country. Scroll down to read the statement in full. However, organizers say they will reject “any form of collaboration with those who on the contrary have carried out or…

Despite the continuing challenges of the pandemic, it was a year of highlights from film festivals around the world. Who could forget Spike Lee’s now-infamous moment when he accidentally revealed this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner early after a translation mix-up? How about Titane director Julia Ducournau making…

Bleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Sundown, the latest film from Mexican writer-director Michel Franco that world premiered this fall at the Venice Film Festival. A 2022 theatrical release in the U.S. is in the works for the tense family drama. Tim Roth reunites with Franco (he starred in Franco’s…

The Venice Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, and exhibitor Curzon are tying up on London screening series From Venice To London (18 – 22 November). Seven films from Venezia 78 have been chosen to be shown in London with appearances by filmmakers and cast. The Lost Daughter, directed by Maggie…

Keep telling yourself, “It’s just a movie.” That is, unless it’s David Gordon Green’s run on the Halloween franchise, according to Jamie Lee Curtis. She says the spark that brought her back to the iconic slasher series was precisely that Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride tapped into a changing world to add new…

It's Oct. 1. Give it a week. Check the headlines, message boards, and online gossip. If the film awards and festival circuit hasn't run smack into a Covid cluster by then, we can all breathe easier. Hollywood will have blazed a trail past the pandemic. Unintentionally—because, let's face it, show business has never…

Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures' sci-fi epic Dune is starting early rollout this weekend, looking to capitalize on momentum coming off of its star-packed world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which was followed by an event at Paris' Grand Rex cinema and screenings in Deauville and Toronto — all in just the past…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed French filmmaker and novelist Audrey Diwan. Her second film, L’Evenement (Happening), won the Golden Lion on Saturday, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The picture immediately becomes a hot awards-season title, and domestic distribution is being sorted by CAA Media Finance and Wild…

Even if you have trouble with the idea of God, says veteran producer David Puttnam in Ennio, Giuseppe Tornatore's rapturous paean to his late collaborator Ennio Morricone, when you hear his music, "you can hear that there is something out there." By the standards of Ennio, the suggestion that God dwells in Morricone's…