Venice Film Festival: No Zendaya because the Strikes Change the Picture

Without its lead obtainable to help the movie, MGM delayed the discharge of “Challengers” to spring 2024 and yanked it from the Venice lineup. Taking its place because the pageant’s opening-night movie was “Comandante,” a World War II movie instructed from the perspective of Italian submariners. While it’s well-shot and stuffed with suspenseful battle sequences, “Comandante” options precisely zero tennis hotties considering a threesome, which can hinder its final enchantment with a Venice viewers that was promised starry romantic excessive jinks.

Though the pageant’s inventive director, Alberto Barbera, admitted at a news convention on Wednesday that the likes of Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”) is not going to be attending Venice due to the strike, different actors who hail from extra impartial productions have managed to safe guild waivers, together with “Ferrari” star Adam Driver, “Memory” lead Jessica Chastain, and the forged of Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla.” They’re anticipated to point out up on the Lido this week alongside a posse of high-powered administrators that features David Fincher (“The Killer”), Ava DuVernay (“Origin”) and Richard Linklater (“Hit Man”).

Still, the strikes loom giant. At Barbera’s news convention, the jury president, the filmmaker Damien Chazelle (“La La Land”), dressed for max solidarity, donning a “Writers Guild on Strike!” shirt and the same button on the lapel of his sport coat. He famous that as of Wednesday, the writers had been on strike for 121 days, with the actors becoming a member of them for the final 48 days, and he referred to as on studios to compensate these artists pretty.

“I think there’s a basic idea that each work of art has value unto itself, that it’s not just a piece of content, to use Hollywood’s favorite word right now,” Chazelle instructed reporters, including that that concept “has been eroded quite a bit over the past 10 years. There’s many issues on the table with the strikes, but to me, that’s the core issue.”

Chazelle was joined by the administrators Martin McDonagh and Laura Poitras, who each wore shirts supporting the Writers Guild. They are a part of a jury that features the filmmakers Jane Campion and Mia Hansen-Love, amongst others.