The 80th Venice Film Festival gets underway in earnest today and the landmark edition will be unlike any other, taking place as it does against the backdrop of two Hollywood strikes. The build-up t…
Film Festival gets underway in earnest today and the landmark edition will be unlike any other, taking place as it does against the backdrop of two Hollywood strikes.
The build-up to the festival has been dominated by talk of which stars will make it to the event and which will stay at home. It hasn’t been as challenging for organizers as the Covid editions, but it’s surely up there in recent memory., the outlook for U.S. celebrity attendance is patchy, with a handful of big names set to appear and do the usual press obligations , but others have decided to stay away to avoid the accusation of strike breaking or simply “bad optics”.
Despite initial anxiety about movies changing course because of the strikes, it was only the festival’s opening film, Zendaya starrerComandanteVenice has become a popular awards launch pad in the last decade and this year is no different with the 80Related Stories
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