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VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Venice Film Festival is in full swing with a starry batch of awards season hopefuls arriving in Italy for glamorous premieres and discussions about their films. Emily Blunt, Amanda Seyfried and Dwayne Johnson are just some of the stars who have new films premiering at the Venice festival, which runs through Sept. 6. This is …

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow tackles geopolitics in her new film “A House of Dynamite,” which has its world premiere on Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival. The film is about an imminent missile strike on the U.S., from an unknown aggressor, and how the White House responds. “I grew up in an era when hiding under your school …

Dwayne Johnson arrives in Venice with his most vulnerable movie yet  The Washington Post ‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: Dwayne Johnson Is a Revelation  Variety The Smashing Machine review: Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson is Oscar-worthy in his new film  BBC Dwayne Johnson Looks So Different After Weight Loss Transformation  yahoo.com Dwayne Johnson’s fear fueled an MMA-style transformation for his most challenging role yet  Fox News Source …

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, delivered a knockout punch Monday at the Venice Film Festival. The A24 film had its world premiere Monday night inside Sala Grande and the audience went wild, responding with a 15-minute standing ovation. It proved to be a special night for Johnson …

The bit in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘60s film “Pierrot le Fou” where Belmondo asks maverick filmmaker Sam Fuller, playing himself, to give him a precise definition of cinema has been quoted within an inch of its life. So, to preface with a paraphrase of Reagan, here I go again. Quoth Fuller: “Film is like a battleground … It’s love, hate, action, …

Kaia Gerber and Lewis Pullman seemingly hard launched their relationship, holding hands and kissing on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival. Gerber was there to support Pullman at the premiere of his film The Testament Of Ann Lee. She wore a sheer black lace dress for the occasion. Kaia Gerber and Lewis Pullman appear to be an official …

Returning to the Lido a year after launching The Brutalist, Mona Fastvold is back at the Venice Film Festival with her latest feature as director, the Amanda Seyfried-starring The Testament of Ann Lee. World premiering in competition Monday afternoon, the movie received a 15 1/2-minute ovation. After the screening at the Sala Grande was met with enthusiasm and more than …

The Venice Film Festival hosted a world premiere on Monday afternoon for Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, delivering something close to a religious experience. The audience responded to the film, which stars Amanda Seyfried as founder of the radical religious sect the Shakers, with raptrous applause, and a 15-minute standing ovation. Seyfried wipes back tears as the house …

Is The Rock headed to the Oscars? Judging by the rapturous reaction to his performance in “The Smashing Machine” at the Venice Film Festival on Monday night, that seems to be the consensus out of Italy. Dwayne Johnson uncontrollably sobbed as the world premiere audience on the Lido chanted, cheered and screamed during a 15-minute standing ovation, one of the …

“Vertigo” star Kim Novak was honored with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Monday at the Venice Film Festival, where the reclusive Hollywood diva made her first public appearance in decades since leaving the limelight in the mid 1960s. She was welcomed with a warm protracted ovation before Guillermo del Toro took the stage to deliver a glowing tribute. Novak, …