Dwayne Johnson Gets Choked Up Discussing ‘The Smashing Machine’: “This Transformation Was Something I Was Really Hungry to Do”

Dwayne Johnson Gets Choked Up Discussing ‘The Smashing Machine’: “This Transformation Was Something I Was Really Hungry to Do”

The moment is here: The Rock has arrived on the Lido.  At a 2025 Venice Film Festival packed with cross-generational star power — from George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jude Law to Jacob Elordi, Emma Stone and Ayo Edebiri — Dwayne Johnson‘s arrival Monday for the world premiere of The Smashing Machine nonetheless made for…

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Mayra Hermosillo’s ‘Vanilla’ Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer)

Mayra Hermosillo’s ‘Vanilla’ Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer)

Mexico in the late 1980s. The eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt. It is a struggle that will reshape how she sees herself and those around her. This is the premise of Vanilla (Vainilla), the feature directorial debut by writer-director Mayra Hermosillo, an actress you…

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Jude Law “Learned Judo” But “Didn’t Fear Repercussions” for Playing Vladimir Putin in Venice Thriller ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’

Jude Law “Learned Judo” But “Didn’t Fear Repercussions” for Playing Vladimir Putin in Venice Thriller ‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’

Jude Law joked that he hopes he wasn’t naive when he “didn’t fear repercussions” for taking the part of Vladamir Putin in French director Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin, a fictionalized account of the Russian president’s ruthless rise to power throughout the 1990s. The political thriller is premiering at the Venice Film Festival…

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Venice: Werner Herzog Doc ‘Ghost Elephants’ Sells to National Geographic (Exclusive)

Venice: Werner Herzog Doc ‘Ghost Elephants’ Sells to National Geographic (Exclusive)

National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the U.S. streaming rights to Werner Herzog‘s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants, which had its world premiere at the Venice film festival on Wednesday. The doc will go out on Disney+ and Hulu in the U.S.. Herzog wrote, directed and narrates the documentary, in which he follows conservation biologist…

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