Venice’s Alberto Barbera Built Fest Into Awards Season Must-Stop

Tarek El Moussa finally addressed his rumored feud with ex Christina Haack during the September 14 episode of E!’s Daily Pop, two months after they reportedly shared “choice words” on the set of Flip Or Flop in July.

lost it on the set of the HGTV show and ripped Christina, claiming he "made" her and dubbed her a "washed-up loser." The fight was so bad that the duo had to film their scenes separately.While speaking to E!'s Daily Pop, Tarek regretting his role in the verbal blowout."Christina and I, we worked together, wow, for over 10 years now and we've been working together as exes for five years now," he said.

Marta Balaga Canadian actor Sarah Gadon told Variety Saturday she was “really happy” with the decisions of Venice’s main jury this year, on which she served alongside Bong Joon-ho, Saverio Costanzo, Virginie Efira, Cynthia Erivo, Alexander Nanau and last year’s Golden Lion winner Chloé Zhao.The jury gave the Golden Lion to French director Audrey Diwan’s powerful abortion drama “Happening,” while Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Hand of God” took

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Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorSony Pictures announced Thursday it has blocked out an awards-friendly spot on Dec. 23, 2022 for the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” starring Naomi Ackie.Other dates announced include a Sept.

Kodi Smit-McPhee went all plaid for all of his press looks at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado during Labor Day Weekend. 

National Television Awards tonight –  when the stars of the small screen gather at a glittering ceremony held at London’s O2 Arena to find out if they’ll be taking home a coveted gong.

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Another fall season, another deluge of fall film festival movies and previews. If you’ve been playing along, and hopefully, you have, you’ve already seen our coverage from the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado and Italy’s Venice International Film Festival.

Kate Hudson is turning heads at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Hudson wore a red Chantilly lace and tulle Valentino gown from the Valentino Resort 2022 Prêt-à-Porter collection to the  premiere in Venice, Italy Sunday.

EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Film Festival and its festival director Alberto Barbera have become awards whisperers.

So many stars from Young Hollywood are at the 2021 Venice Film Festival this weekend and they’re all wearing the same designer!

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe country’s box office is still sputtering but Italian cinema is instead “in a state of grace,” as Venice chief Alberto Barbera put it recently as he announced the five features from Italy that are competing for the fest’s Golden Lion.

So many stars were at the premiere of Dune at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Manori Ravindran International EditorNetflix is officially in the building.With both Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God” playing at the festival, the streaming giant made its splashy debut on the Lido on Thursday, holding an exclusive reception in the afternoon for their top executives and partners at the chic Hotel Excelsior.Netflix film boss Scott Stuber, a recent Variety cover star, arrived at the party with his wife, the actor and model Molly Sims

Manori Ravindran International EditorAs the Venice Film Festival claws back 70% of its pre-pandemic registration numbers and lures a parade of Hollywood stars to the Lido, it seems festival director Alberto Barbera is right: Venice is well and truly back. And just in time, too.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentOn Tuesday night, the eve of the 78th annual Venice Film Festival, Variety hosted a rooftop party at the Hotel Danieli honoring fest topper Alberto Barbera and the Biennale, its parent organization, with its International Achievement in Film Award.Variety international editor Manori Ravindran presented the prize to Barbera and Roberto Cicutto, the president of the Biennale.The event’s theme was “Stairway to Parasite,” a tribute to director Bong Joon Ho,

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLast year, the small Southern African nation of Lesotho entered the Academy Awards race for the first time with Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” one of 28 features spawned over the past decade by Biennale College — Cinema, the workshop created by Alberto Barbera for emerging filmmakers to develop and produce micro-budget feature-length films.The College was conceived by Barbera in tandem with Torino Film Lab topper