Stellar Venice film fest to host Brad Pitt, Lady GaGa.

The much anticipated follow-up to Tim Burton’s beloved 1988 fantasy horror comedy, Beetlejuice, will debut at the 81st Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, August 28.
Alongside the director are Winona Ryder, Willem Defoe, Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton, who plays the title character, and his partner, the actress Monica Bellucci.
The follow-up is Out of Competition at the world’s oldest film fest.
This year’s edition packed with Hollywood stars, which wraps up on September 7, will also present Sigourney Weaver with a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
Even celebrities who do not have a film that will be screened at the festival, such as Richard Gere, will be in Laguna City to attend events like Oprah Winfrey’s visit with Diane Von Furstenberg at the Arsenale on August 29 or the amfAR charity at the Nicelli airport on September 1.
Venice will also host leading Italian actors and directors including Valerio Mastandrea, Barbara Ronchi, Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Nanni Moretti, Elio Germano, Toni Servillo, Fabrizio Gifuni, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Francesco Di Leva, to cite a few.
In particular, the Italian movies in competition are Gianni Amelio’s Battlefield; Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio; Iddu by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza with Toni Servillo and Elio Germano; Luca Guadagnino’s Queer starring Daniel Craig; and Giulia Steigerwalt’s Diva Futura.
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix (September 4) and Brad Pitt and George Clooney for Wolfs (Sunday, September 1) are two of the most highly anticipated performers to appear at this year’s festival. Pitt’s ex-wife Angelina Jolie will be featured in Pablo Larrain’s Maria (August 29), which is set during the final days of Maria Callas’s exile in Paris.
More stars to feature at the film extravaganza include Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton for Pedro Almodovar (on September 2), Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline for Disclaimer, the TV series by Alfonso Cuaron (August 29-30), Nicole Kidman for Babygirl by Halina Reijn (on August 30) with Antonio Banderas and a previously unseen Daniel Craig for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer (September 3).
Camille Cottin will star in Trois Amies on August 30 while August 31 will feature the screening of The Order, a film in competition with Jude Law and Tye Sheridan.
Along with the couple Clooney-Pitt, Adrien Brody will also be in Venice on September 1 for The Brutalis by Brady Corbet and Vincent Lindon on September 4 for The Quiet Son.
The finale of the jury’s prize presentation ceremony, which was presided over by Isabelle Hupper, will feature Pupi Avati’s Orto americano, Kevin Costner and Sienna Miller’s Horizon: An Americal Saga chapters one and two.