Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ Confirmed For A Venice Film Festival Debut

Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis are doing the red carpet right in matching shirts!

Victoria Wang In 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) cancelled its physical red carpet events and pivoted to a combination of offline and online activities.

many things at the festival both high — opening the Werner Herzog Cinema as Ringmaster and, of course, the world premiere of ‘Moonlight’ — and low (rolling up the floor of the Max at festival’s end was a rite of passage).

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune” will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.

Manori Ravindran International EditorCannes Film Festival jury president Spike Lee is the star of the event’s 2021 poster.Organizers released the image for the festival’s 74th edition on Thursday, listing the various reasons as to why the acclaimed director was chosen as the face of the festival:For the immense impatience to finally find ourselves again in the Cannes setting : the seaside ,the palm trees and the silver screen, just like a blank page, that will welcome the films of the Official

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentIt’s official: Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated “Dune” reboot will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September.As first anticipated by Variety, the fest has announced that the big budget sci-fi epic toplining Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya will world premiere in Venice out-of-competition on September 3.The film is adapted from Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller about young Paul Atreides (Chalamet), scion of the noble House

The Venice Film Festival has confirmed that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will make its world premiere out of competition at the 78th edition in September. Deadline reported in May that the film was expected. From Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures, Dune is the highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name. The film will be shown on Friday 3 September 2021, in the Sala Grande. The fest runs from September 1-11 on the Lido.

Scott Huver As Forest Whitaker prepares to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Newport Beach Film Festival on June 16, the prolific Academy Award- and Emmy-winning actor with a career spanning four decades says he finds himself increasingly reconnecting with the way he approached the work when he was just starting out.There’s a “joy when I’m working on a part in the discovery of looking at it and trying to figure out the people,” he says.For example, he notes that by focusing more

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Another early morning, another early announcement from France. As promised by the organizers previously, new titles have been added to the Cannes Film Festival, nine of them in total.

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterTaking place across outdoor venues in all five boroughs of New York City, the Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary June 9-20, screening a bevy of features, shorts, TV series, podcasts and games in what is being billed as the first major in-person film festival to take place in North America since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.Managing all the logistics to mount a proper in-person festival despite such circumstances would be a tall

Rebecca Davis editorThe Shanghai International Film Festival (SHIFF) will kick off this year with the Chinese propaganda film “1921” as its opening night gala, the event announced late Tuesday evening local time with just three days to go before the premiere.This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of China’s ruling Communist Party on July 1, a key political date that for the past year already has sent censors into high alert and film companies scrambling to develop content lauding

It’s been essentially over a year without in-person film festivals. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the SXSW, Cannes Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festivals were all canceled last year.

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After a pandemic-induced delay of 14 months, cinema is returning to la Croisette. The 74th Festival de Cannes will finally take place this July, and we now know what films will join the previously announced titles “The French Dispatch,” “Annette,” and “Benedetta.” And if you’re fans of filmmakers such as Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Asghar Farhadi, François Ozon, Mia Hanson-Love, Justin Kurzel, Jacques Audiard, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, you should be very excited.

live event with the Cannes Film Festival’s President, Pierre Lescure, and the festival’s General Delegate, Thierry Frémaux.The #Cannes2021 #OfficialSelection’s announcement is over, thank you for following us! While waiting for the Opening Ceremony on July 6, find the Festival news and press kit on https://t.co/IosEnqkXv7.

TribecaFilm.com.After wowing audiences — and scoring an Oscar nod — with last year’s “Pieces of a Woman” — Vanessa Kirby again showcases her phenomenal talent. This drama finds the British actress playing a writer who loses her memory in New York City.

After a pandemic-induced delay of 14 months, cinema is returning to la Croisette. This July the 74th Festival de Cannes will finally take place and we now know what films will join the previously announced titles “The French Dispatch,” “Annette” and “Benedetta.” And if you’re fans of filmmakers such as Andrea Arnold, Sean Baker, Asghar Farhadi, François Ozon, Mia Hanson-Love, Justin Kurzel, Jacques Audiard, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul you should be very excited.

Refresh for latest…: A year after they unveiled the lineup for what would have been the 73rd Cannes Film Festival, the organization’s President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux are back on stage at Paris’ UGC Normandie cinema this morning to reveal the Official Selection for the 74th edition. (Scroll down for the full list as we update live.)