Vox Lux Goes to Venice

The official section line up of the Venice Film Festival has been unveiled today, and Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux is one of the selected films. The last time Natalie premiered a movie in competition at the Lido was Jackie, two years ago. Will the great critical reception of Pablo Larrain’s film be repeated on this occasion? Hopefully it will be like that…

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Tidbits

In the absence of set photos of Noah Hawley’s film, we have a couple of tidbits to finish the week…

-E.K. Johnston (author of ‘Ahsoka’) is writing a new Padme novel called Queen’s Shadow, and this is the (great) cover, unveiled at the San Diego Comic Con:

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PETA Video

Natalie appears in a new campaign for PETA speaking about famed writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. The writer, who died in 1991 in Florida, won a Nobel Prize in Literature in…

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Sunday Tidbits

It’s time for a new weekly batch of tidbits:

-Usually, film critics associations announce their nominations and awards at the end of the year, but Los Angeles Online Film Critic Society has broken the rule, announcing their “mid-season” film awards nominees. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther received the most love with seven nominations, but Annihilation has also achieved four mentions, including one for Natalie in the category of best actress. The winners will be known next week.

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