VENICE, Italy (AP) — Julia Roberts is making her Venice Movie Pageant debut with the psychosexual drama “After the Hunt,” which premieres Friday night.
The movie is ready on this planet of upper training and stars Roberts as a beloved professor whose mentee, performed by “The Bear’s” Ayo Edebiri, accuses her good friend and colleague (Andrew Garfield) of crossing the road.
“After the Hunt” was directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, who is not any stranger to the pageant. Final yr he introduced “Queer,” with Daniel Craig, and a number of other years in the past had “ Bones & All,” with Timothée Chalamet. His tennis love triangle movie “Challengers,” with Zendaya, was imagined to open Venice in 2023 however the Hollywood strikes upended a lot of that yr’s pageant and it was pulled.
Guadagnino regulars Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny are additionally a part of the “After the Hunt” ensemble. Amazon MGM Studios plans an Oct. 10 theatrical launch in North America.
“After the Hunt” is taking part in out of competitors on the pageant, that means it gained’t be up for any of the most important awards come Sept. 6. Venice chief Alberto Barbera mentioned that it was robust sufficient to be within the competitors, however the studio requested in any other case.
Two days in, the 82nd version of the Venice Movie Pageant is in full swing with many main premieres to return together with Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” and Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.”
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