Andrew Garfield Awarded With Legend Award at Italy's Ischia Film Festival

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorThe Locarno Film Festival’s artistic director, Giona A. Nazzaro, has rejected calls to ban Leon Prudovsky’s “My Neighbor, Adolf,” which world premieres Aug. 4 in Locarno’s Piazza Grande, after a controversy was sparked regarding its funding.

Martha Stewart teamed up with global streetwear brand Anti Social Social Club for a capsule collection that features two images of Stewart, taken from her Instagram as she poses with lobster and an oyster. Andrew Garfield attended the Ischia Global Festival in Italy while wearing the Warner Tee in peacoat white and red from FILA. Emily Ratajkowski did an outfit check on TikTok while wearing the Frankie Asymmetric Drawstring Top in white from Edikted. Lala Kent took to Instagram to show the results of her mommy makeover featuring Sientra implants.Jaden Smith attended The ABB FIA Formula E New York City E-Prix wearing a custom driving suit by Alpinestars. Drake’s design collective, OVO®, teamed up with New York artist, Keith Haring for the OVO® / Keith Haring Collection, available in-store and online at octobersveryown.com.

Sanaa Lathan’s On the Come Up will be hitting Paramount+ on Friday, September 23 in U.S., Canada, Italy and later in the year in offshore territories.

Andrew Garfield has been beating the heat by spending time at the beach.

Andrew Garfield does a backflip into the water with the assistance of his friend, art dealer Vito Schnabel, over the weekend off the island of Ischia in Italy.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVenice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera will soon unveil the lineup for the fest’s upcoming 79th edition, which will open with Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise.”“White Noise” stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Jodie Turner-Smith, and is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. The film, which will screen in competition, also marks the first time a Netflix film has landed Venice’s opening slot.Elsewhere, Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as cannibal lovers on a road trip across America in the 1980s, is among other titles strongly believed to also be set to vie for a Golden Lion.U.S.

Refresh for latest…: The Venice Film Festival will unveil its lineup for the 79th edition this morning at 11 a.m. local time (2 a.m. PT/5 a.m. ET). The press conference is being held at the Library of the Biennale Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts in Venice with speakers including Roberto Cicutto, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Alberto Barbera, Artistic Director of the Cinema Department who oversees the Lido fest.

Richard Madden attends the photo call at the 2022 Giffoni Film Festival on Monday (July 25) in Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentNoah Baumbach’s black comedy “White Noise,” with an ensemble cast comprising Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Jodie Turner-Smith, is set to open the upcoming Venice Film Festival.“White Noise,” which will world premiere in competition at Venice on Aug. 31, marks the first time a Netflix original film opens the fest.Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation follows Jack (played by Driver), a professor who made a name for himself by teaching Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America.

New Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer will make his international debut at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival, running from August 31 to September 10.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA marathon screening of all three “Infernal Affairs” films has been announced for the much delayed 46th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.The three films, all restored and upgraded to 4K digital prints, lead off a six- film section of Chinese-language restored classics at the festival.The HKIFF was this year postponed from its usual March-April slot to August, due to the fifth wave of the COVID pandemic which closed Hong Kong cinemas for the first months of 2022. It will now take place from Aug.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third highest-grossing movie of all time with a domestic total of $804 million and it’s safe to say that the lead actors took home a lot of money for the film!

Hot Air, will be directed by Deadpool 2 director David Leitch, and is based on the 1994 book Dirty Tricks.According to reports in Deadline, the six-part series will be written by Jon Croker (Paddington 2) and is currently being shopped around to a number of streaming services.Dirty Tricks, the book from investigative journalist Martyn Gregory, focuses on the battle between Branson’s Virgin Airways and British Airways, in which Branson was awarded over £3.5million after suing BA for planting negative stories about Virgin in the press in a move dubbed ‘Operation Barbara’.The news of Garfield’s casting comes after he stated earlier this year that he wanted to take some time away from acting.He told People in April: “I’m actually really happy and excited to be very quiet and very still and take some time to just be.“It feels very important right now, especially after a lot of output, a lot of being out in the world, and giving a lot of energy to things that I’m very passionate about, but I have to kind of refill the well so that I can carry on authentically carry on without it feeling like I have to keep up with the Joneses in some way.”Elsewhere, Garfield recently starred in Under The Banner of Heaven and was nominated for an Oscar for Tick, Tick… Boom!, as well as reprising his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man.

Andrew Garfield is lining up his next big project.

Sasha Urban editorHot off his Emmy nomination for his role in “Under the Banner of Heaven,” Andrew Garfield is in talks to portray billionaire business mogul Richard Branson in a limited series called “Hot Air,” Variety has confirmed. The series will be directed by David Leitch (“Deadpool 2”), with Universal International in discussions to produce.The six-part series is written by Jon Croker (“Paddington 2”), based on the book “Dirty Tricks: British Airways’ Secret War Against Virgin Atlantic” by investigative journalist Martyn Gregory.

Andrew Garfield is set to star as Richard Branson in the upcoming series “Hot Air”.

Sometimes, a project gets announced that makes one’s head spin, based on the premise, the talent involved, or all of the above. “Hot Air” is that project this week, as Deadline reports that a limited series about Virgin Airways CEO Richard Branson‘s infamous battle against British Airways in the 1990s is in development from Universal International Studios.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Garfield, who just landed his first Emmy nomination for FX limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, is headlining another limited series project, Hot Air, which is heating up the streaming marketplace. Garfield is set to portray Richard Branson in the project about the famous British entrepreneur, which I hear is in a competitive situation with multiple major platforms in the running. It comes from Universal International Studios, with Deadpool 2 helmer David Leitch set to direct, sources said.

Julianne Moore will head up the International Jury of Competition this year at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. Moore was put up for consideration by the festival’s director, Alberto Barbera, and will be joined by six other names in film.