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ntAndrew Haigh may be looking to return to Venice, where his 2017 feature Lean on Pete</em> premiered, for his latest. The festival has been courting him, enticing the British director to serve on the 2024 Venice Jury. But Haigh picked Telluride for the premiere of his breakout feature, All of Us Strangers</em>, and the fest could have the edge over Venice for his follow-up. Even the mountain setting of the new drama, adapted from a Colm Tu00f3ibu00edn short story and starring Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitru00edona Balfe and Fred Hechinger, would seem to favor Colorado over the Lido. Expect producer/distributor Mubi to have the final say.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Andrew Haigh”,”image_credit”:”Vittorio Zunino Celotto/”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621564,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2168994024.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2168994024.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2168994024.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2168994024.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2168994024.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2168994024.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:853}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntAfter two decades of kicking out cultish projects at Sundance (Kumiko</em>, The Treasure Hunter</em>, Sasquatch Sunset</em>), the Zellner brothers could be poised for a splashy launch on the Lido. Alpha Gang</em>, described as an eccentric alien invasion comedy, wrapped in Hungary last July. Cate Blanchett stars as Alpha One, leader of an extraterrestrial strike force disguised in human form as a 1950s leather-clad biker gang, whose ruthless conquest of Earth unravels when the crew catches, per the film’s official description, “the most toxic, contagious human disease of all: emotion.” </p>nnnn

ntChris Pine, Dave Bautista, Lu00e9a Seydoux, Lily-Rose Depp, Adria Arjona and Doona Bae fill out the gang with memorable faces, with It Follows </em>DP Mike Gioulakis shooting. Mk2 Films is selling internationally, with CAA Media Finance handling North American rights.
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ntFirst Abel Ferrara, then Werner Herzog u2014 next comes a Bad Lieutenant</em> care of Japan’s most prolific provocateur. Shun Oguri plays the titular degenerate cop, a corrupt gambler in Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Force, pulled into a tangled case when an enigmatic FBI agent (Lily James) arrives to investigate the disappearance of a politician’s daughter (WWE star Liv Morgan), with a deviant killer of the yakuza underworld shadowing their moves. Audition</em> scribe Daisuke Tengan wrote the script, and Jeremy Thomas produced. The film wrapped last year, and Neon reportedly has it set for a September release stateside. Announcing the project, Miike promised, “a fastball straight down the middle of the strike zone.” He previously competed in Venice with the Sukiyaki Western Django </em>(2007) and samurai remake 13 Assassins </em>(2010).</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Takashi Miike”,”image_credit”:”Rick Kern”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621551,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1175866823.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1175866823.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1175866823.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1175866823.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1175866823.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1175866823.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:853}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntFourteen years after his last feature u2014 and fresh off the universally acclaimed Star Wars</em> series Andor</em> u2014 Tony Gilroy returns to the big screen with what he’s called the most personal project of his career. Drawing on his own youth as a musician, the director of Michael Clayton</em> describes Behemoth!</em> as a movie that “surfs on music.” </p>nnnn

ntPedro Pascal plays a cellist from a family of musicians who returns to Los Angeles for session work, with the film’s score reportedly triggering flashbacks across two decades to reveal why he left and why he’s come back. Will Arnett u2014 stepping in for Stranger Things</em>‘ David Harbour, who exited after the shoot began u2014 co-stars alongside Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor and Matthew Lillard. Gilroy reunites with his acclaimed Andor</em> cinematographer Damiu00e1n Garcu00eda. Searchlight hasn’t dated the film yet, but it’s expected to launch during the fall awards corridor, which could set the stage for Gilroy’s European festival debut.u00a0
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ntSian Heder’s follow-up to her Oscar-winner CODA</em> is an adaptation of the memoir of disability rights activist Judy Heumann, following her 28-day occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building in 1977, a landmark protest for disability rights and accessibility legislation. Ruth Madeley stars as Heumann, Mark Ruffalo plays her advisary, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr.. </p>nnnn

ntAn obvious awards play, Being Heumann</em> will land at one of the big fall festivals. If not Venice, than Telluride or TIFF. It may come down to Apple, which is producing and releasing the feature, and who have taken a liking to Venice in recent years, using the Lido to platform their high-end series Disclaimer</em> and the Brad Pitt/George Clooney action comedy Wolfs</em>. Seth Rogen also caught a vaporetto to the festival last year, using Venice as a backdrop for Season 2 of AppleTV’s The Studio</em>.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Sian Heder”,”image_credit”:”Emma McIntyre/Getty Images”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1235889615,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sian-Heder-WIF-Oscars-Nominees-Party-GettyImages-2069868022-H-2024.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sian-Heder-WIF-Oscars-Nominees-Party-GettyImages-2069868022-H-2024.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:180},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sian-Heder-WIF-Oscars-Nominees-Party-GettyImages-2069868022-H-2024.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:360},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sian-Heder-WIF-Oscars-Nominees-Party-GettyImages-2069868022-H-2024.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:451},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sian-Heder-WIF-Oscars-Nominees-Party-GettyImages-2069868022-H-2024.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:577},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Sian-Heder-WIF-Oscars-Nominees-Party-GettyImages-2069868022-H-2024.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:721}},”fullWidth”:1020,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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Werner Herzog reportedly turned down an out-of-competition slot in Cannes for his latest feature film, making a Venice premiere all but certain. Siblings Rooney and Kate Mara stars as twins who dig a tunnel through a mountain in search of a mythical land where u201ctrue love is possibleu201d in this new piece of existential weirdness from the legendary director of Fitzcarraldo</em> and Grizzly Man</em>.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”‘Bucking Fastard’ with Rooney Mara, Kate Mara”,”image_credit”:”Courtesy of Lena Herzog”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236215082,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bucking-Fastard-Rooney-Mara-Kate-Mara-Lena-Herzog.jpg?w=602″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bucking-Fastard-Rooney-Mara-Kate-Mara-Lena-Herzog.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:180},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bucking-Fastard-Rooney-Mara-Kate-Mara-Lena-Herzog.jpg?w=602″,”width”:602,”height”:339},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bucking-Fastard-Rooney-Mara-Kate-Mara-Lena-Herzog.jpg?w=602″,”width”:602,”height”:339},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bucking-Fastard-Rooney-Mara-Kate-Mara-Lena-Herzog.jpg?w=602″,”width”:602,”height”:339},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bucking-Fastard-Rooney-Mara-Kate-Mara-Lena-Herzog.jpg?w=602″,”width”:602,”height”:339}},”fullWidth”:602,”fullHeight”:339,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntZeller’s London- and Madrid-shot psychological thriller finished filming early this year and has been in post since spring, which precluded a Cannes entry. The director’s first original screenplay, after adapting two of his own plays for the screen (The Father</em>, The Son</em>), Bunker</em> stars real-life spouses Javier Bardem and Penu00e9lope Cruz as a couple whose marriage buckles after he, a celebrated architect, accepts a commission to build a bunker for a billionaire. </p>nnnn

ntZeller has said he wrote the script expressly for the Spanish pair, hoping to draw on the texture of a real long-term cohabitation. Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger co-star. FilmNation is handling sales. None of Bunker</em>‘s principals are Venice newcomers. The Son</em> premiered in competition there in 2022, and both leads have won Volpi Cups u2014 Bardem for Before Night Falls</em> (2000), Cruz for Parallel Mothers</em> (2021).
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ntCircles</em> marks a departure, geographic at least, for Michel Franco. Instead of modern-day Mexico, the Hebrew-language film is set in early-1950s, during the formative years of the State of Israel. Co-written with Tom Shoval (Youth</em>), it follows real-life brother and sister Meir and Shoshana Har Zion, whose lives tracked the bloody history of the region. Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky of AR Content, Circles</em> was snatched up for France by Metropolitan, leading some to assume it would premiere in Cannes, but Venice, where Franco won the Silver Lion for New Order</em> back in 2021, now looks the safe bet. </p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Michel Franco”,”image_credit”:”Vittorio Zunino Celotto/”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621570,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242404701.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242404701.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242404701.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242404701.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242404701.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:682},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242404701.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:853}},”fullWidth”:863,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntTom Ford successfully premiered his first two features in Venice: 2009’s A Single Man</em> won Best Actor for star Colin Firth and Nocturnal Animals</em> took the 2016 Grand Jury Prize. The Italian setting of Cry to Heaven</em> u2014 adapted from the Anne Rice novel, about an 18th century Venetian noble and a maestro castrato from Calabria who team up to make it big in the opera world u2014u00a0and the stacked cast, featuring Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, George MacKay and Adele, make the Lido the most likely launch pad for his new film as well.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Tom Ford”,”image_credit”:”BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621565,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2187388027.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2187388027.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2187388027.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2187388027.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:534},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2187388027.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2187388027.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:854}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntIf Warner Bros. wills it, Digger</em> will be this year’s event of the Lido. The studio has dated Iu00f1u00e1rritu’s first English-language film since The Revenant </em>for U.S. release on Oct. 2, the very same frame Joker</em> claimed in 2019 weeks after winning Venice’s Golden Lion. </p>nnnn

ntBilled as “a comedy of catastrophic proportions,” Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, “the most powerful man in the world,” racing to prove he’s humanity’s savior before a disaster of his own making destroys everything. Although technically a studio comedy, the film is suffused with awards season pedigree. Emmanuel Lubezki shot Digger</em> on 35mm VistaVision, and Sandra Hu00fcller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde and Emma D’Arcy fill out the $125 million production. Iu00f1u00e1rritu is also a Venice regular u2014 21 Grams</em>, Birdman</em> (en route to best picture), and Bardo</em> also premiered there. Cruise got his fighter-jet moment in Cannes just a few years ago; perhaps it’s time for an armada of water taxis.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Digger Movie Poster Starring Tom Cruise”,”image_credit”:”Tom Cruise/X”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236454133,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Digger-Movie-Poster-Tom-Cruise-Publicity-H-2025.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Digger-Movie-Poster-Tom-Cruise-Publicity-H-2025.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:180},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Digger-Movie-Poster-Tom-Cruise-Publicity-H-2025.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:360},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Digger-Movie-Poster-Tom-Cruise-Publicity-H-2025.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:451},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Digger-Movie-Poster-Tom-Cruise-Publicity-H-2025.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:577},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Digger-Movie-Poster-Tom-Cruise-Publicity-H-2025.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:721}},”fullWidth”:1020,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntWarner Bros. has set Villeneuve’s trilogy-closer for release on Dec. 18 u2014 head-to-head with Marvel-Disney’s Avengers: Doomsday</em>, a clash some have already dubbed “Dunesday.” At this point, a December tentpole of Dune</em>‘s scale hardly needs a festival. But Villeneuve and Venice have history: the director premiered Arrival</em> in competition in 2016 and launched Dune: Part One</em> to tremendous fanfare out of competition on the Lido in 2021.</p>nnnn

ntShot on 65mm film and IMAX formats, largely in Budapest, the Dune Messiah</em> adaptation wrapped in November 2025, plenty of time for the project’s prodigious VFX to be ready by September. Timothu00e9e Chalamet’s emperor Paul faces the conspiracies of Frank Herbert’s follow-up novel alongside Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson and Javier Bardem, with Robert Pattinson joining the saga, reportedly as shape-shifting villain Scytale. Part Two</em>, released in March 2024, skipped festivals entirely u2014 but Barbera is undoubtedly taking his shot.
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ntGuy Nattiv made Lido history in 2023 when Tatami</em> u2014 the first feature ever co-directed by an Israeli and an Iranian, made with Zar Amir Ebrahimi u2014 world-premiered in Venice’s Orizzonti competition. The Israeli director has described his follow-up as his “most personal film” to date. Drawn from his own grandmother’s real-life entanglement with a sinister cult, the 1980s-set thriller stars Carrie Coon as Rita, a mother who abandons her family for an all-female commune run by Lily James’ radiant young guru; Bella Ramsey and Odessa Young play the daughters who stage a rescue mission. The film shot in British Columbia last summer and Bleecker Street, which released Nattiv’s Golda, holds U.S. rights and plans a late 2026 theatrical release.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Guy Nattiv”,”image_credit”:”Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1235614387,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1608364127-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1608364127-copy.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:180},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1608364127-copy.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:360},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1608364127-copy.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:451},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1608364127-copy.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:577},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GettyImages-1608364127-copy.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:721}},”fullWidth”:1020,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntNetflix paid seven figures for Simon Kinberg’s spec script back in 2020 u2014 Jason Bateman was once attached to direct u2014 and the long-gestating heist thriller, told in nonlinear fashion, has finally come together under City of God</em> director Fernando Meirelles. Denzel Washington, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Robert Pattinson star in the tale of a bank guard, a teller and a master thief locked in a deadly game of cons and double crosses, with Danai Gurira, Sean Harris and Justin Kirk supporting. </p>nnnn

ntThe film was shot in New Jersey through late January, with Meirelles reuniting with his City of God</em> DP Cu00e9sar Charlone. Netflix hasn’t dated Here Comes the Flood </em>yet, nor revealed whether it will be positioned as a potential awards contender or simply a commercial play with an especially high-end cast.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Fernando Meirelles”,”image_credit”:”Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621552,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1188555958.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1188555958.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1188555958.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:426},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1188555958.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:532},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1188555958.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:682},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1188555958.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:852}},”fullWidth”:863,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntYann Gonzalez has been a Cannes stalwart u2014u00a0his debut short By the Kiss</em> (2006) premiered there, as have both his features, You and the Night </em>(2013), and Knife + Heart </em>(2013) u2014u00a0but his new feature was picked for last year’s Venice Gap-Financing Market, and those projects, once finished, tend to land on the Lido. The film seen Gonzalez re-teaming with Vanessa Paradis and his brother, M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez, on what is described as a gothic fantasy romance. </p>nnnn

ntParadis plays a 50-year-old schoolteacher living in a remote mountain village who leads a double life as a one-night-stand seducer of lonely men. But the main attraction for Venice could be her co-star, Filippo Scotti, the young Italian who won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best emerging actor at the festival in 2021 for Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God</em>. </p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Yann Gonzalez”,”image_credit”:”Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621548,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-959751764.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-959751764.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-959751764.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-959751764.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-959751764.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-959751764.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:853}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntAfter his bloody comeback with zombie franchise reboot 28 Years Later</em>, Danny Boyle is shifting gears with this drama, adapted from James Graham’s stage play, about the rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Guy Pearce plays Murdoch with Jack Ou2019Connell as Larry Lamb, editor of Murdoch-owned British tabloid The Sun</em>. It looks like a strong return to biographical drama for the Steve Jobs</em> director. It’s a toss up which Fall fest will land it. Venice has a good chance but Ink</em> could as easily look to Telluride, where Boyle screened Steve Jobs</em>, or Toronto, where he triumphed with Slumdog Millionaire, </em>as the launch pad for its award run.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Danny Boyle”,”image_credit”:”Samir Hussein/WireImage”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621580,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2256193015.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2256193015.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:240},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2256193015.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:480},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2256193015.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:600},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2256193015.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:768},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2256193015.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:960}},”fullWidth”:767,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntI Play Rocky </em>has been a hot title since FilmNation began shopping it to international buyers back in Cannes 2024. A Hollywood-behind-Hollywood feature, it follows Sylvester Stallone in his struggles to get his 1976 classic made, while insisting he, an acting no-hoper, will play the lead. Anthony Ippolito, who played a young Al Pacino in Paramount’s “making of The Godfathe</em>r” series The Offe</em>r, is Stallone, with Jay Duplass as Rocky</em> director John G. Avildsen, Stephan James as Carl Weathers, and Matt Dillon as Frank Stallone Sr. </p>nnnn

ntAmazon MGM, who have domestic rights, have dated this for a Nov. 13 limited release, going wide Nov. 20, almost 50 years to the day of the original Rocky</em> premiere (released Nov. 21, 1976). The film history hook, and Balboa’s Italian roots, would make this one a nice fit for Venice, but given Farrelly’s penchant for Toronto u2014 he premiered both Green Book </em>(2018) and The Greatest Beer Run Ever</em> (2022) at TIFF u2014 the Great North seems the most likely launchpad. </p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Peter Farrelly”,”image_credit”:”Gilbert Flores”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621573,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270999424.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270999424.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270999424.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:426},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270999424.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:532},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270999424.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:681},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270999424.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:851}},”fullWidth”:865,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntThis could be the year Barbera claims back one of Italy’s most established festival favorites. Every Moretti feature since Caro diario</em> (1994) has premiered at Cannes, but the Palme d’Or winner’s romantic drama u2014 his second adaptation of an Eshkol Nevo work after Three Floors </em>u2014 shot through last autumn in Spain, Rome and Turin, was conspicuously absent from the Croisette in May. A Venice bow would be his first since Palombella rossa</em> in 1989.</p>nnnn

ntSpanish distributor BTeam has dated the Italy-France-Spain co-production for Christmas, solid positioning for a Lido launch. Louis Garrel leads opposite Jasmine Trinca u2014 the female lead of Moretti’s Palme d’Or winner The Son’s Room</em> some 25 years ago u2014 with Moretti, who recovered quickly from a 2025 heart attack, taking a small role himself. Interweaving several of Nevo’s stories, the film, the director has said, “manages to describe our feelings today, our fears.”</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Nanni Moretti”,”image_credit”:”Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621556,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1493143065.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1493143065.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1493143065.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:426},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1493143065.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1493143065.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:682},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1493143065.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:853}},”fullWidth”:863,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntAfter the success of A Real Pain</em>, Jesse Eisenberg is poised to take his most ambitious swing yet: an original musical, for which he wrote the songs himself. Julianne Moore plays a shy woman unexpectedly cast in a community-theater production who goes to extremes as she loses herself in the role, falling under the spell of its strong-willed director, played by Paul Giamatti. Halle Bailey, u00a0Havana Rose Liu and Broadway legend Bernadette Peters co-star, with Emma Stone producing through her Fruit Tree banner and A24 distributing.</p>nnnn

ntThe pedigree behind the camera is similarly stacked, withAnora</em>DP Drew Daniels shooting, Hamilton</em>choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler staging the musical numbers, andA Complete Unknown’s</em>Steven Gizicki supervising the music. Shooting wrapped after an April start in New Jersey. Eisenberg is a Sundance regular u2014 both his prior features bowed in Park City u2014 but a finished fall-ready musical of this scale makes sense for a step up into the European prestige leagues.
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ntLav Diaz may be an acquired taste, but Venice has embraced the slow cinema style of the Filipino filmmaker and his latest durational opus looks Lido-bound. Set in the Philippines during the pre-World War II Commonwealth period, it follows the old, venerable mayor of the remote town of Kawalan, who, after learning of the impending Japanese invasion, organizes members in his community to set up a hidden settlement in the middle of the forest, where they hope to escape the impending atrocities of the war. Even if Kawalan</em> doesn’t make the competition cut, it looks a lock for Venice’s Horizons sidebar.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Lav Diaz”,”image_credit”:”Randy Shropshire”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621579,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242712667.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242712667.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242712667.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242712667.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242712667.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2242712667.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:853}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntFelix van Groeningen’s new feature looks a sure pick for Venice, given the blockbuster success, in Italy, of his last feature, The Eight Mountains</em>, and the red carpet draw of its Italian star Luca Marinelli. Charlotte Vandermeersch, co-director on Eight Mountains</em>, penned the script to Let Love In </em>with Van Groeningen and Anne Paulicevich, and steps in front of the camera to co-star alongside Marinelli as a couple whose relationship is destabilised after a long-buried affair resurfaces.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Felix Van Groeningen”,”image_credit”:”Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621550,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1047866288.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1047866288.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1047866288.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:426},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1047866288.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1047866288.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:682},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1047866288.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:852}},”fullWidth”:863,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntAlex Gibney delivered a finished cut </em>of his hotly-anticipated documentary on Elon Musk early last year only to return to the editing suite to reshape the film, expanding its scope to include Musk’s involvement in U.S. politics and his DOGE escapades. Recent Musk-y headlines, including the hype around the IPO of Space X, and his new status as the world’s first trillionaire, could mean further delays, so a Venice premiere is far from certain. </p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Alex Gibney”,”image_credit”:”Dia Dipasupil”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621574,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278670043.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278670043.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278670043.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278670043.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:533},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278670043.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2278670043.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:854}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntAs a Venice veteran, and Golden Lion winner (for The Way We Laughed</em> in 1998), Amelio should be guaranteed a competition slot for his lastest. The drama, featuring Italian stars Valeria Golino and Alessandro Borghi, is set in a town struck down by a strange phenomenon which puts the entire population to sleep. The main question is whether the film, which just finished principle photography in April, will be ready for the Lido.</p>n</div>”,”alt”:”Gianni Amelio”,”image_credit”:”Stefania D’Alessandro/WireImage”,”url”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/venice-2026-buzz-dune3-digger-mike-leigh-werner-herzog/”,”image_id”:1236621577,”image”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169656170.jpg?w=1024″,”sizes”:{“pmc-gallery-s”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169656170.jpg?w=320″,”width”:320,”height”:213},”pmc-gallery-m”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169656170.jpg?w=640″,”width”:640,”height”:427},”pmc-gallery-l”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169656170.jpg?w=800″,”width”:800,”height”:534},”pmc-gallery-xl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169656170.jpg?w=1024″,”width”:1024,”height”:683},”pmc-gallery-xxl”:{“src”:”https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2169656170.jpg?w=1280″,”width”:1280,”height”:854}},”fullWidth”:862,”fullHeight”:575,”mime_type”:”image”,”ad”:””,”appleSongID”:null,”enableAppleGA”:false,”additionalDescription”:null,”subtitleColor”:null,”additionalSubtitle”:null,”additionalSubtitleColor”:null,”ads”:{“html”:”t

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ntEight years after Burning</em>, the elder statesman of Korean arthouse cinema returns. Backed by Netflix and already buzzed-about as one of the streamer’s leading international awards contenders of the year, Lee’s latest searing melodrama is said to follow two married couples leading completely opposite lives whose worlds collide, sending fractures through their daily existence. </p>nnnn

ntKorean screen royalty Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu play Mi-ok and Ho-seok, opposite Zo In-sung and Parasite</em>‘s Cho Yeo-jeong, with Lee co-writing alongside Oh Jung-mi. The casting is a homecoming in itself u2014 Jeon won Cannes’ best actress prize for Lee’s landmark Secret Sunshine</em>, Sul anchored his classics Peppermint Candy</em> and

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