Jamie Lee Curtis to receive lifetime achievement award at Venice Film Festival

“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.

France's most famous actors, may miss the Cannes Film Festival after testing positive for COVID-19.Seydoux has been fully vaccinated but she tested positive while working on a film, her publicist Christine Tripicchio confirmed Saturday. She is asymptomatic and isolating at home in Paris, hoping that negative tests on consecutive days could allow her to still attend the festival in the south of France.Seydoux was set to be one of the most ubiquitous stars at Cannes this year.

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!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBarry Alexander Brown, the filmmaker and editor long known for his association with Spike Lee, is to receive two lifetime achievement honors this year during the Cannes Film Festival.Lee is present in Cannes as president of the competition jury.The AFI World Peace Initiative and the Better World Forum will honor Brown and Lee as iconic pioneers for their body of work promoting inclusion, diversity and social justice, and laud Brown for race-relations drama “Son

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Only two films announced so far, and the 78th Venice International Film Festival already looks like it’ll be one of the biggest festivals of 2021. Denis Villeneuve‘s highly-anticipated “Dune” is already scheduled to appear, and now Venice organizers have revealed that David Gordon Green‘s “Halloween Kills” will make its world premiere at the festival.

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.

Queen Latifah couldn’t hold back the tears during the highly-anticipated BET Awards on Sunday night.The iconic actress received the Lifetime Achievement Award and got emotional on stage after a moving tribute organized by female rappers Lil’ Kim, Rapsody, MC Lyte and Monie Love.The latent artists delivered a medley of Ladies First and U-N-I-T-Y, making the Hollywood star speechless for the love she received throughout her career and during the ceremony.She took a moment to show her appreciation

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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.

Queen Latifah is being honored for her incredible career!

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.

Jamie Lee Curtis is an absolute dancing queen.

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