Venice Film Festival lineup includes ‘Joker 2,’ films with Pitt, Clooney, Jolie
The Venice Film Festival is back with a star-studded lineup, featuring a mix of highly anticipated sequels, new releases, and documentaries.
The 81st edition will kick off on August 28th with the world premiere of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice,” and will run through September 7th.
The festival’s competition lineup includes “Joker: Folie à Deux,” the highly anticipated sequel to the 2019 award-winning “Joker,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga.
Other notable films in competition include Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas biopic “Maria,” starring Angelina Jolie; Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here”; Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl”; Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ “Queer,” with Daniel Craig and Jason Schwartzman; and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, “The Room Next Door,” starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney will reunite in Jon Watts’ action-comedy “Wolfs,” screening out of competition.
Several documentaries will also premiere at the festival, including Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ “One to One: John & Yoko,” Errol Morris’ “Separated,” and “The Things We Said Today,” a time capsule of the Beatles’ arrival in New York.
The festival will also screen Peter Weir’s 2003 epic “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” in conjunction with his lifetime achievement award.
Venice is a significant launching ground for awards hopefuls and the first major stop of a busy fall film festival season. Last year, seven Venice world premieres went on to receive 24 Oscar nominations and five wins.
