#Wes Anderson on the Wes Anderson Style: “Most of My Choices Are Just Me Doing What I Want”

#Wes Anderson on the Wes Anderson Style: “Most of My Choices Are Just Me Doing What I Want”

Wes Anderson’s visual style is perhaps among the most widely acknowledged and talked about of any contemporary directors, with countless videos, photos and memes claiming to have somehow replicated the supposedly trademark look and feel of his movies. But does the filmmaker himself acknowledge this style? When ask at the Venice Film Festival, where he’s…

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#Venice: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Sells in Europe, Asia (Exclusive)

#Venice: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ Sells in Europe, Asia (Exclusive)

European and Asian buyers have snapped up Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s hotly-anticipated new drama Evil Does Not Exist ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival next week. Berlin-based sales agent M-Appeal closed multiple distribution deals for the Japanese director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Drive My Car. Ama Films will release the film in Greece,…

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#Venice According to Supermodel Elisa Sednaoui

#Venice According to Supermodel Elisa Sednaoui

Model, actress, director and author Elisa Sednaoui has been a regular on the Lido red carpet for years, even hosting the Venice Festival’s opening and closing ceremonies in 2015. As a model, she’s been a muse for Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin and the face of numerous campaigns for Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Roberto…

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#Venice: What the Strike Means for Indie Film Sales

#Venice: What the Strike Means for Indie Film Sales

The business side of the fall film festivals — the backroom bidding wars and late night sales sessions in which hype and buzz around a big Venice-Toronto-Telluride premiere is transmuted into a seven- or eight-figure distributor’s check — could be MIA this year. New conditions placed on film sales for movies that received SAG-AFTRA waivers…

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#Venice: Meet the ‘Ferrari’ Producer Who’s Worked With Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Bought Into Miami’s Other Soccer Club and Is Sending MMA Fighters into Space

#Venice: Meet the ‘Ferrari’ Producer Who’s Worked With Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Bought Into Miami’s Other Soccer Club and Is Sending MMA Fighters into Space

In about four years time, Andrea Iervolino hopes to launch a stadium and TV studios into orbit and broadcast the world’s first zero-gravity MMA fight from space. He’d originally thought that Galactic Combat — his idea for reality-show-meets-sports-tournament following a group of spacebound fighters — would be ready sooner, within two or three years, but he’s…

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