Venice Film Festival 2023: An Edition Unlike Any Before Is Throwing Up Plenty Of Talking Points
deadline.comThe 80thVenice Film Festival gets underway in earnest today and the landmark edition will be unlike any other, taking place as it does against the backdrop of two Hollywood strikes.
The build-up to the festival has been dominated by talk of which stars will make it to the event and which will stay at home.
It hasn’t been as challenging for organizers as the Covid editions, but it’s surely up there in recent memory. As we revealed on Friday, the outlook for U.S.
celebrity attendance is patchy, with a handful of big names set to appear and do the usual press obligations (largely due to the SAG-AFTRA interim agreements, which allow such promotion), but others have decided to stay away to avoid the accusation of strike breaking or simply “bad optics”.
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