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The Venice Film Festival — which gets underway today — has in recent decades fired the starting gun on the ‘traditional’ awards season. This year’s festival is stacked with A-list talent. It’s perhaps starrier than ever. The roll-call includes Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Michael…

Updated with further details: Georgian anti-Putin drama The Antique, which was due to premiere in Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), has had its screenings suspended following the issuing of an emergency decree on behalf of Russian and Croatian producers claiming copyright issues with…

French acting legend Isabelle Huppert, who is president of the Venice Film Festival jury this year, was joined by her panelists as artistic director Alberto Barbera hosted the opening press conference for the 81st running of the event this morning. It’s a different look this year, with no one sporting…

Thirty-six years after Tim Burton and Michael Keaton collaborated on classic supernatural comedy Beetlejuice, the pair are unveiling the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice here at the Venice Film Festival. The follow-up will have its gala world premiere this evening after having screened for the press this…

Curiously, for a woman who directed a movie called Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl seemed to lose control over her own person when she first met Adolf Hitler. "I had hot sweats," the German filmmaker said of seeing the future Führer speak at a rally in 1932. "I was somehow captured, as by a…

Take one conservative anti-Trumper, add a liberal Hollywood filmmaker, toss them in a Hot Tub Time Machine, and what comes out? One of the most talked-about documentaries set to premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. In the new episode of Deadline's Doc Talk podcast, TIFF's chief…

EXCLUSIVE: Two years ago, Sigourney Weaver handed the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to the filmmaker Paul Schrader. As she explains to us in a rare sit-down, she didn't imagine that two years later she would be receiving the same accolade. Looking over her career is to…

Academy Award–winning actor-turned-filmmaker Angelina Jolie is set to receive the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey announced on Tuesday. Jolie will receive the award at the 2024 TIFF Tribute Awards, taking place at Fairmont Royal York…

EXCLUSIVE: Elton John: Never Too Late, the documentary about the British-born music legend's incredible career, will debut on Disney+ on Friday, December 13, the streaming platform announced today. The film directed by documentary great R.J. Cutler and David Furnish – Elton John's husband – is set to…

Morehouse graduate Edwin Moses, one of the greatest athletes of all time, will return to his alma mater next month for a unique occasion. The two-time Olympic champion in the 400-meter hurdles is expected on campus in Atlanta for the world premiere of Moses – 13 Steps, a documentary about his life on and…

The American Film Institute has announced that Music By John Williams, a documentary on the iconic film composer from Lucasfilm Ltd, Amblin Documentaries and Imagine Documentaries, will world premiere as the opening night film of the 38th AFI Fest on Wednesday, October 23. Directed by Laurent…

Infinity Festival, whose exhibitions and conversations and events combine art, entertainment and technology, is returning in November with a retooled edition of the Monolith Awards. Now in its seventh year, the fest is anchored by the awards, which recognize achievements in a range of areas including…