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Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice 2,’ Starring Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega, to Open Venice Film Festival


Tim Burton's 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' with Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega will open the 81st Venice Film Festival.

As previously anticipated by Variety, this year’s Venice fest is shaping up to be a star-studded affair with Lady Gaga, Joaquin Phoenix, Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Gal Gadot and Ana de Armas among top Hollywood talents likely to be launching high-profile titles from the Lido. Also believed to be locked into a Venice competition berth is Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burroughs adaptation “Queer,” in which Daniel Craig plays the renowned counterculture author’s alter ego, an outcast American expat who lives in Mexico and is fighting a heroin addiction. Also in the mix are the Jon Watts-directed action comedy “Wolfs,” pairing Clooney and Pitt as two lone-wolf fixers forced to work together in covering up a high-profile crime, and Ron Howard’s survival thriller “Eden” starring Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Sydney Sweeney, Vanessa Kirby and Daniel Brühl.

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