Damien Chazelle Shows Support for Hollywood Strikes as Venice Jury President: ‘Art Over Content’

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Since the Hollywood strikes began back in May, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw have donated a collective $1.5 million to writers, actors and other industry workers who have been negatively impacted by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Capshaw and Spielbergs generous donations have gone to the Entertainment Community Fund as well as the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Emergency Financial Assistance Program.

Drew Barrymore’s decision to resume taping her talk show on Monday has kicked off a fight over whether she is violating the rules, or at least the spirit, of the Writers Guild of America strike. On Sunday, WGA East said that the show is “struck” and that any writing on the show would be against the rules. But SAG-AFTRA, which is also on strike, issued its own statement on Monday defending Barrymore.

Topher Grace’s wife is speaking out!

Topher Grace‘s wife Ashley is speaking out after his former That ’70s Show co-star Danny Masterson received his prison sentence.

Though the fate of Netflix’s “One Piece” remains unknown despite its successful Aug. 31 launch, producers reveal that scripts for a potential season 2 are complete, therefore ready for production, shall they receive the green light.

This is Day 129 of the WGA strike and Day 56 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Emily Ratajkowski seems to be voicing her support for Sophie Turner following news of her divorce from Joe Jonas. The 32-year-old model, who recently divorced producer Sebastian Bear-McClard after four years of marriage, shared her thoughts about what it’s like to be divorced at a young age and revealed that “there is nothing better.”JOE JONAS FILES FOR DIVORCE FROM SOPHIE TURNER: PRENUP AND CUSTODY DETAILSJOE JONAS AND SOPHIE TURNER DIVORCE: HAPPIER TIMES [PHOTOS]“It seems that a lot of young ladies are getting divorced before they turn 30,” the model said on TikTok.

Now that the dust has settled on the “contentious” and “acrimonious” battle over how much Kevin Costner should pay his estranged wife in child support, the judge is explaining why he sided with the actor and not Christine Baumgartner.

For his feature directorial debut, Day of the Fight, Jack Huston has reteamed with his former Boardwalk Empire colleague Michael Pitt to tell the story a once celebrated boxer who takes a redemptive journey through his past and present on the day of his first bout since leaving prison.

Kanye West and his partner Bianca Censori have reportedly been “banned for life”, after indecent exposure on a Venice boat.The incident took place in Venice recently, when the artist was photographed with his underwear down during a canal boat ride with his partner, and criticised for indecent exposure.Now, the boating firm has publicly called out the 46-year-old rapper and his 28-year-old partner for the event, and subsequently banned them from ever boarding any of the company’s boats ever again.Speaking with the Daily Mail Australia (via The Independent), Venezia Turismo Motoscafi of the company explained the company’s distance from the musician following the images coming to light, and explained that the two would have been kicked off the vessel if the driver had noticed.“The driver had to keep a lookout for traffic and did not see these obscenities,” they began. “If this had happened, he would have immediately disembarked and reported the transgressors to those in authority.”They also claimed that the driver did not notice the events unfolding in the back of the boat as a third person with the couple had “obstructed the captain’s view”.“We completely dissociate ourselves from such acts and behaviour,” they added.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Damien Chazelle paid tribute to late great director William Friedkin on Sunday in a moving speech at the Venice Film Festival where Friedkin’s last film “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial” premiered out-of-competition to warm applause. Friedkin, who died on Aug. 7 in Los Angeles at age 87, completed the film – which stars Kiefer Sutherland as Lt.

Jane Campion, Damien Chazelle, Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv joined a flash mob on the Venice Film Festival’s red carpet on Saturday in support of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran.

We’re back, Insiders. Jesse Whittock here. After a week away, we’ve got you covered for all the big news as festival season gears up once again. We’ve been mob-handed in Venice while diligently covering all the major TV and film news around the world. Let’s begin…

EXCLUSIVE: Caleb Landry Jones has built an eclectic resumé since he first appeared as Boy on Bike in 2007’s No Country for Old Men. His diverse credits include X-Men: First Class, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Get Out and Nitram, Justin Kurzel’s 2021 mass murder drama which earned Landry Jones a Best Actor prize in Cannes. 

EXCLUSIVE: The Rebel Wilson feature, Bride Hard, directed by Simon West has rounded out its cast which includes Anna Camp, Justin Hartley, Anna Chlumsky, Stephen Dorff, Gigi Zumbado and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

Venice Film Festival. But the SAG-AFTRA strike made it impossible for the tennis drama, which MGM pushed to a 2024 release date, to come to the Lido. So instead, Venice kicked off with World War II drama “Comandante” by young Italian auteur Edoardo De Angelis.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The 80th Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday with World War II drama “Comandante” by young Italian auteur Edoardo De Angelis packing a strong political punch. Tensions due to the SAG-AFTRA strike lurked in the background, though without stealing the thunder of strong expectations for this year’s lineup.

The 80th Venice Film Festival officially kicked off Wednesday evening with the world premiere screening of Edoardo De Angelis’ Italian World War II submarine drama Comandante. Running in competition, the film took over the slot vacated by Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers, which backed out of the spot amid the actors strike.

Strictly Come Dancing star Giovanni Pernice has shown his support for his co-star Gorka Marquez and his fiancee Gemma Atkinson as they prepare to appear in their very own reality show.

Venice Film Festival jury head Damien Chazelle arrived at the opening press conference sporting a Writers Guild on strike t-shirt and badge today.