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Venice Film Festival Lineup: ‘Joker 2’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie’s ‘Maria’ and Luca Guadagnino’s Daniel Craig-Led ‘Queer’ to Debut in Competition

The Venice Film Festival is revealing the lineup for its upcoming 81st edition, updating live.

As of last week, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar was also eyeing a competition spot with “The Room Next Door,” his English-language feature debut starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Other titles that Variety previously predicted could make the cut were “Joker 2” with Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga; Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a biopic of famed opera singer Maria Callas starring Angelina Jolie; and Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” telling a love story between Daniel Craig and “Outer Banks” breakout Drew Starkey. This year’s international jury will be led by acclaimed French actor Isabelle Huppert, along with jurors James Gray (“Ad Astra”), Andrew Haigh (“All of Us Strangers”), Agnieszka Holland (“Green Border”), Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), Abderrahmane Sissako (“Bamako”), Giuseppe Tornatore (“Cinema Paradiso”), Julia von Heinz (“Treasure”) and Zhang Ziyi (“Memoirs of a Geisha”).

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