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Everything the desk has filed on Venice Film Festival.
Benjamin Netanyahu says he will introduce legislation to revoke citizenship from those who criticise Israeli soldiers, directly following NAZA's Venice win and a wave of official condemnation of its filmmakers.
Netflix is rolling out Lee Chang-dong's back catalogue globally after Possible Love won the Silver Lion at Venice, with Secret Sunshine, Oasis, Poetry and more joining the platform across markets through the autumn.
Israel's Culture Minister Miki Zohar says he will move to revoke the citizenship of NAZA directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their Gaza documentary won a Special Jury Prize at Venice.
The 83rd Venice Film Festival closed with Woman Unknown taking the Golden Lion over festival favourite Possible Love, a decision Maggie Gyllenhaal's jury defended even as critics called it the wrong pick.
Bengal-born filmmaker Anuparna Roy is back in Venice's Orizzonti competition with her second feature, a story of four migrants on Mumbai's margins, a year after becoming the first Indian to win the section's Best Director award.
Elon Musk's attorney has fired off a legal notice to the makers of Alex Gibney's Venice-premiered documentary, disputing its suggestion that Starlink influenced the 2024 US election, days before the film's theatrical release.
Justine Musk speaks on camera for the first time in years in Alex Gibney's documentary 'Musk,' alleging gaslighting, estrangement from their transgender daughter Vivian, and disputing Elon Musk's claims about their son Nevada's death.
Casey Affleck's Company, starring Nick Nolte, Adelaide Clemens and Ben Mendelsohn, premiered in competition at Venice, weaving three eras of loosely connected stories about grief and forgiveness through stripped-down, intimate framing.
At the Venice premiere of Florian Zeller's Bunker, real-life spouses Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz discussed playing a married couple for the first time, and why they won't dodge questions about politics.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney's four-hour documentary Musk gets its first teaser trailer ahead of a Venice Film Festival premiere, with a US theatrical release set for September 18.
Jonathan Bailey left Venice on Sunday after a festival stint built around Armani Beauty, where he's the face of the brand's first new men's fragrance in more than 20 years.
Susan Sarandon told reporters in Venice that agencies are still telling people not to hire her over her support for Palestine, three years after United Talent Agency dropped her as a client.
Danny Boyle has confirmed AI appears in his upcoming Netflix film INK for about 30 seconds, used to animate archival photographs and CGI mice, while insisting the technology only works if actors get paid.
Fresh off its Venice premiere, Robert Pattinson's A24 crime drama Primetime is tracked to open between $10 million and $15 million in North America, enough to beat Nightcrawler but short of certain top-five A24 debuts.
Lee Chang-dong's first film since 2018's Burning premiered in Venice competition to a lengthy standing ovation, reuniting Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu before a staggered global rollout via Netflix.
Lee Chang-dong's first film since 2018's Burning premiered at Venice to near-unanimous critical praise. Netflix will give Possible Love an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run, and Korea has already picked it for the Best International Feature race.
Jeff Zucker, who once ran CNN Worldwide and NBCUniversal, makes his screen debut playing himself in A24's Primetime, opposite Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, at its Venice premiere.
Liam and Noel Gallagher premiered their Oasis documentary Don't Look Back in Anger at Venice on Saturday, drawing an eight-minute ovation after skipping the earlier press conference entirely.
Cédric Kahn's Venice competition entry A Place To Heal dramatises life inside an adolescent psychiatric ward, drawing on real case histories gathered by co-writer Kahina Le Querrec over six months of research.