The 80th Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow with a robust roster of awards season hopefuls making their bows, such as Michael Mann’s “Ferrari,” Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” Sophia Coppola’s “Pr…
will be in Venice to promote “Ferrari” while Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, who play Priscilla and Elvis Presley in “Priscilla,” as well as Priscilla Presley herself, are also expected to be on the Lido. Jessica Chastain is expected to jet in for Mexican auteur Michel Franco’s “Memory,” which is screening toward the end of the fest.
All told, there will be enough actors, name directors and other personalities, from the U.S. and elsewhere, to provide a decent amount of global media fodder. But there is no doubt that Venice will feel the impact of the SAG-AFTRA strike, which prohibits union members from doing any type of promotional activity for movies produced by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers .
“Comandante” stars Italian A-list actor Pierfrancesco Favino as heroic naval commander Salvatore Todaro who on Oct. 15, 1940, as commander of the submarine Cappellini, sank a Belgian merchant ship called Kabalo that was carrying aircraft parts and operating under British rule. He then surfaced, disobeying orders from his own command, to rescue the Kabalo’s 26 crew members, obeying what he called “the law of the sea” under which “nobody is left at sea.
Italy is struggling to contend with a large number of North African migrants trying to arrive by boat on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, the country’s southernmost outpost. Right-wing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – who has made the fight against illegal immigration a cornerstone of her political career – said on Monday she was convening an emergency national security panel to tighten the government’s response to the surge in migrant arrivals by boat.
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