Ciao! The 82nd annual Venice Film Festival is underway and the stars have hit the canals, with this year’s world premieres including Yorgos Lanthimos kidnap thriller “Bugonia,” Noah Baumbach’s showbiz dramedy “Jay Kelly,” Guillermo del Toro’s lavish adaptation “Frankenstein,” Luca Guadagnino’s college campus thriller “After the Hunt” and Benny Safdie’s UFC biopic “The Smashing Machine.” New films from Mona Fastvold, …
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Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, Jay Kelly follows countless other US films and television series, many of them influenced by HBO hit The White Lotus, which drool over the lifestyles of the rich and famous. At the moment, there are far too many of these glossy tributes to the one per cent on our screens, but most of them …
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Following 2019’s Marriage Story and 2022’s White Noise, Noah Baumbach is back in competition at the Venice Film Festival, unveiling the world premiere of his Jay Kelly on Thursday. The comedy-drama received a 10-minute ovation as the lights came up near midnight in the Sala Grande. George Clooney, who earlier today missed the film’s press conference owing to a bad …
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Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporter at the Venice Film Festival Getty Images George Clooney was joined by wife Amal on the red carpet at the film’s premiere in Venice There’s a line in George Clooney’s new film where one character tells him: “You’re the American dream, the last of the great movie stars.” It’s a comment which could easily apply to Clooney …
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George Clooney braved a sinus infection and a rainstorm on Thursday night for the Venice premiere of Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” which soaked in an 8.5-minute standing ovation. Clooney walked the red carpet on the Lido with his co-star Adam Sandler, who made a rare appearance in a tux. The two leading men play a Hollywood power couple of sorts …
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Venice welcomed back festival frequent flyers George Clooney and Noah Baumbach on Thursday night, giving Baumbach’s Jay Kelly a joyous, 10-minute-long standing ovation at its in-competition world premiere. Clooney plays the titular role in Jay Kelly in a performance Baumbach tailor-made for him: Starring as world-famous actor who has a late-career crisis, and sets off on a cross-country European trip, accompanied by …
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Former Villanova men’s basketball coach Jay Wright has become a staple of March Madness television coverage since departing the Wildcats’ program in 2022. But it appears that time is drawing to an end. On Thursday, Wright took to social media to announce he’d be stepping away from full-time broadcasting this season. pic.twitter.com/tGrvk3rBx0 — Jay Wright (@CoachJayWright) August 28, 2025 “After …
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George Clooney had to miss the press conference for his new Netflix movie Jay Kelly, which launches this week at the Venice Film Festival, due to what the festival moderator described as a “bad sinus infection.” The press conference moderator said Clooney “should” be at this evening’s world premiere screening but the conditional tense left the door open to him …
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It is not an original idea to make a movie about a movie star. Think Notting Hill, The Bodyguard, Tropic Thunder, America’s Sweethearts, A Star Is Born, Birdman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Bowfinger. I could go on. The greatest film I ever saw about a star was Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s masterful All About Eve, even if that was …
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