‘Halloween Kills’ To Premiere At Venice Film Festival As Jamie Lee Curtis Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival has unveiled its official poster by Italian illustrator and author Lorenzo Mattotti, and announced that a film by Venice native Andrea Segre looking at how the fest navigated COVID-19 last year will screen as its pre-opening event.Titled “La Biennale di Venezia: il cinema al tempo del Covid,” which translates to “The Venice Biennale: Cinema in the time of Covid,” the pre-opener will screen on Aug. 31.

“Parallel Mothers,” the next film from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar that stars Penélope Cruz, will be the opening night film for 2021’s Venice Film Festival.This year’s Venice, now in its 78th year, will run from September 1-11. “I was born as a film director in 1983 in Venice,” Almodóvar said in a statement.

The Venice International Film Festival will kick off its 78th edition in September with the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s film “Madres paralelas.”Organizers said Monday that the film about two, single and pregnant women starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit and Israel Elejalde will debut as part of the competition slate on Sept.

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar‘s latest film, “Parallel Mothers,” starring Penelope Cruz, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano, and Rossy de Palma, will open up the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival in September. “Parallel Mothers,” or “Madres Paralelas,” as it’s known in Spain, centers on the story of two mothers who give birth the same day.

The 78th Venice Film Festival has its opening film – Pedro Almodovar’s Madres Paralelas, starring Penelope Cruz.

Variety. The film from director Pablo Larraín will also play in competition for the Golden Lion.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Spencer,” Pablo Larraín’s high-anticipated drama starring Kristen Stewart as Lady Diana, will world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival, Variety has learned.Written by “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight, the film centers on a weekend in the early 1990s when Diana decided to separate from Prince Charles amid rumours of affairs.

Jamie Lee Curtis is launching a podcast about friendship. The 62-year-old actress thought it would be "interesting" to examine the ways people's relationships with their pals change over time after witnessing first-hand the impact the coronavirus pandemic had on long-standing bonds.

Jodie Foster is receiving a major award!

Halloween Kills.“I am incredibly humbled to be honoured in this way by the Venice International Film Festival,” Curtis said of the award (via Deadline).

The Venice Film Festival is awarding its lifetime achievement award this year to Jamie Lee Curtis, the American actor best known for her decades-long run in the “Halloween” slasher franchise.

‘ — and my partnership with Laurie Strode — launched and sustained my career, and to have these films evolve into a new franchise that is beloved by audiences around the world was, and remains, a gift.

The 78th Venice Film Festival will this year award a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to American actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The ceremony will take place on September 8 at the Sala Grande before the out-of-competition screening of David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills. Venice runs September 1-11 on the Lido.

Manori Ravindran International EditorJamie Lee Curtis will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 78th Venice International Film Festival in September.The ceremony will take place on Sept. 8 in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema before an out-of-competition screening of “Halloween Kills.”“I am incredibly humbled to be honored in this way by the Venice International Film Festival,” said Curits.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorProject Angel Food’s upcoming telethon, “Lead With Love 2021,” will include appearances by “Batwoman” star Javicia Leslie, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maria Shriver and Matt Bomer.

Quentin Tarantino will be recognised by the Rome Film Festival this year with a lifetime achievement award.Tarantino will attend the festival, which runs October 14-24, and is set to participate in a “close encounter” Q&A with the local audience.“There was a time in my life where I’d watch any Italian movie. And I spent the better part of my career making my version of those movies,” Tarantino said in a statement, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Happy Halloween, Michael! The trailer for Halloween Kills is here and things are only getting more gruesome.

Hollywood veteran Jamie Lee Curtis recently looked back at her famous stripping scene from True Lies and opened up. While chatting on People‘s People in the ’90s podcast the 62-year-old actress got candid about her striptease scene and revealed something very surprising.