The 2024 Venice Film Festival is set to begin on August 28th and running through September 7th which will offer the first look at the upcoming films we will see throughout the fall season. "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice", the sequel to Tim Burton's classic 1988 horror-comedy, has been selected to open the 81st edition of the fest out-of-competition with original cast members, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara on board along with new additions, Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe making appearances.
French acting icon, Isabelle Huppert has been named as Jury President for this year's fest. The rest of the jurors who will help select the winners of awards are American director, James Gray; British filmmaker, Andrew Haigh; Polish filmmaker, Agnieszka Holland; Brazilian filmmaker, Kleber Mendonça Filho; Malian film director, Abderrahmane Sissako; Italian filmmaker, Giuseppe Tornatore; German director, Julia von Heinz and Chinese actress, Zhang Ziyi.
The impressive lineup of films from some of the world's greatest filmmakers that will make their premieres and selected to compete for prizes at Venice include Pedro Almodóvar ("The Room Next Door"), Luca Guadagnino ("Queer"), Pablo Larrain ("Maria"), Justin Kurzel ("The Order"), Walter Salles ("I'm Still Here") Halina Reijn ("Babygirl"), Brady Corbet ("The Brutalist"), Wang Bing ("Youth: Homecoming") and Todd Phillips’ "Joker: Folie à Deux", the sequel to the first film that unexpectedly won the top prize of the Golden Lion here in 2019 with Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga co-starring.
Some highlights of films being screened out-of-competition will include the latest from indie American filmmaker, Harmony Korine ("Baby Invasion"); legendary French film director, Claude Lelouch ("Finalement") and the George Clooney and Brad Pitt Apple+ thriller, "Wolfs" from Jon Watts.
Peter Weir, the Australian director behind "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Gallipoli", "Dead Poets Society", "Witness" and "The Truman Show", and Sigourney Weaver, the American actress who appeared in "Alien", "Ghostbusters", "Working Girl", "Gorillas in the Mist" and "The Year of Living Dangerously" (with Weir), will both receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awards during the festival.
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