It’s just been announced this morning: Angelina Jolie is going to Venice!! I mean, I hope she’s going to Venice, because Pablo Larrain’s Maria has been accepted into the Venice Film Festival’s in-competition line-up. Maria is Larrain’s latest bio-pic of a famous and complicated woman, this time Maria Callas, with Angelina starring as Callas. Maria will compete against Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door, Luis Ortega’s Kill the Jockey and many others. I seriously hope Angelina gears up and shows up in Venice.
Unfortunately, there might be some complications in Venice. Venice organizers have also added Jon Watts’ Wolfs to their out-of-competition line-up. Wolfs is the dumb buddy-comedy starring that ratf–ker George Clooney and his good buddy Brad Pitt. The Hollywood Reporter previewed this potential situation last month, that Clooney would want Wolfs to premiere in Venice and the two premieres (Wolfs and Maria) would cause some issues. The festival better do everything to ensure that Angelina gets prioritized and that the two premieres are several days apart.
Meanwhile, some more film festival news for Angelina: her directorial effort, Without Blood, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Without Blood stars Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir, and Angelina directed it before the actors and writers strikes last year. So we’ll get Angelina in Toronto too! What a year.
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- Angelina Jolie during the Red Carpet of movie ‘Eternals’ at the 16th Rome Film Festival, Rome, ITALY-24-10-2021,Image: 639688041, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Angelina Jolie during the Red Carpet of movie ‘Eternals’ at the 16th Rome Film Festival, Rome, ITALY-24-10-2021,Image: 639688676, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Angelina Jolie attends the photocall of the movie “Eternals”, October 25, 2021 in Rome, Italy. 25 Oct 2021,Image: 639717366, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Angelina Jolie attends the photocall of the movie “Eternals”, October 25, 2021 in Rome, Italy. 25 Oct 2021,Image: 639717417, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Angelina Jolie attends the photocall of the movie “Eternals”, October 25, 2021 in Rome, Italy. 25 Oct 2021,Image: 639717575, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Maria Laura Antonelli / AGF Foto / Avalon
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- Italy, Rome, 25 October, 2021 : Photocall of the movie ‘Eternals’ at the Hotel de La Ville in Rome. Pictured : Angelina Jolie,Image: 639720893, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: **** World right excluding Italy ****, Model Release: no, Credit line: Fabio Mazzarella / Agenzia Sintesi / Avalon
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- Rome, ITALY – “Eternals” Official Premiere – 16th Rome Film Fest 2021 Pictured: Angelina Jolie BACKGRID USA 24 OCTOBER 2021 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Rome, ITALY – “Eternals” Official Premiere – 16th Rome Film Fest 2021 Pictured: Angelina Jolie BACKGRID USA 24 OCTOBER 2021 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Rome, ITALY – “Eternals” Official Premiere – 16th Rome Film Fest 2021 Pictured: Angelina Jolie BACKGRID USA 24 OCTOBER 2021 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
Go Angie!
I like Larrain. His films “No” and “Neruda” are much better than Jackie and Spencer.
I’m here for the Ms. Jolie renaissance. Long may it prosper ❤️
Venice! Hope the festival spaces the premiers apart.
Very excited for her new film, I spent a summer and winter on Lake Garda not far from her home and where I’m hoping a lot of the movie is set.
I hope she goes to Venice I want to see her on the red carpet!
It’s probably just me but I can’t imagine paying money to see Jolie in a film. Yes she has a very messy personal life that’s interesting to many of us, but that’s about it for me. I’ve never found her interesting on the screen.
I think she’s amazing to watch. She is so fantastic in Salt – that’s a movie I watch over and over. Oh, and F Clooney. He’s like so many of these supposedly liberal guys who are totally fine with working with abusive men. I’m still mad at Adam McKay and Will Ferrell for choosing to work with Mel Gibson too.
I absolutely love Salt, I was so sad that they just made the one movie. I’d re-watch it now.
Salt was very good. It shouldve been made into a franchise like bourne, mission impossible or james bond. Angelina is the only one with this unique feminine something something that can make people move to go see a movie. I hate to say it but I really enjoyed mr mrs smith with abuser Pitt.
Really? Huh. I’ve always found her mesmerizing on screen. To each their own, I guess.
AJ can act and i just love seeing her on screen. Always mesmerized by her face.
I’m not a fan of her as an actress, but given her situation the past few years, I hope this film is a success at the festival and Brad’s tanks.
@pollyv- Agreed.
Considering her level of fame, there is not 1 Jolie performance, or filmography, I can say is memorable or definitive, even 20 years on.🤔🤔
@Jegede @pollyv
I guess you never saw “Girl Interrupted,” GiA, Salt, and I can go on. You have to be a Brad Pitt fan because she is a better actress between the two.
It’s perfectly possible not to rate Jolie as an actress without being a Pitt or Jonny Lee Miller fan.
That’s what opinions are for.
None of those movies you mentioned are rated as classics or different from 100 of other action flicks.
@Jegede. I am aware of that, but lately a lot of his fans are on this site. What I wrote was my opinion as well!
To any cinephiles, Toronto has a great film festival. The TIFF audience’s are great. The city showcases some excellent films. There is plenty of stars/celebrities. Of course TIFF has become more commercialized in recent times, but I still recommend it.
Everyone is not the same. Like her acting or not. Like her personally or not but I think she is a great person who has a kind heart.
Maria I hope will be excellent. Also Without Blood. I’m excited to see he back onscreen again.
As for Pitt and Clooney who wants to be there for publicity so what.
Pitt wants to bully Angie! They know damn well that movie has no business there they just want to be amongst the crowd of A listers this year. He make me want to puke anyways.
I know they will be on different days, but the media will eat up the faux drama. He’ll probably drag Imes there and she will think she is the new queen of HW lol.
Clooney is a dirtbag for how he did President Biden. I wish both of them the biggest flop in history!
I’m excited about Maria!
And I think AJ’s a great director while also hoping Without Blood isn’t super sad. I’m not sure I’m up for a sad movie in the theater 😕
First, I need to see movie trailers for Maria and Without Blood, PRONTO! Second, why are Wolfs and Beetlejuice even at Venice? I get that they are not in competition. But both seem rather “basic entertainment” and not at all artistic. I’m getting “strings were pulled” vibes, especially for Wolfs. Maybe I’m just being snobbish.
The arc of Angelina’s metamorphosis and growth as a person is so interesting. From someone who I thought was painted as a one-dimensional character earlier in her life, I think it would be impossible for anyone to do that now. She has followed her heart and her head, she adopted multi-cultural, multi-racial children, she advocates for refugees (a post she went after because she wanted to do good, that wasn’t handed her). She became a director because if she hadn’t very interesting topics she cared about would not have been highlighted. Most of all, she didn’t give a fig for what anyone thought when it came to the safety of her children, and that could not have been easy. Yet she put her children’s welfare first and has suffered for them. She probably suffered for them in trying to keep the family together for them before it became untenable. And BEES!!!!. She advocates for bees. Wish she would walk the red carpets to the tune of Wild Thang. Team Angie. By their works you shall know them. I find her an inspiration. And apparently so do her children. Can’t fool kids. Brad.
And come on, I’m over the so-called Clooney and Spit buddy boy swagger. That’s been over for more than a decade. Not funny.