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As the top one and two spots remained unchanged, a small drama rose up again, and anime film as well as the newest work by a renowned German director made their debut in the top ten. The young adults kept flocking to After Forever (After Ever Happy), keeping it on top of the charts.

Golden Globe nominee Adrien Brody portrays playwright Arthur Miller alongside Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, in Blonde, premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Brody was nominated for Best Actor-Motion Picture-Drama for The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski and spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2007 about what he learned from traveling in India while shooting The Darjeeling Limited directed by Wes Anderson.

Gone With the Wind, released in 1939, is considered the most profitable film of all time. The Guinness World Records estimates its global adjusted gross box office at $3.

Italian director Luca Guadagnino is becoming a Venice Film Festival darling, returning to the festival after Suspiria (2018), with a film that festival director Alberto Barbera is calling his best so far, Bones and All with Timothée Chalamet. It is driving the young fans crazy and attracting the biggest crowds so far.

The prospect of seeing Golden Globe winner Timothée Chalamet in Bones and All prompted reporters to cram into the Sala Darsena at the Venice Film Festival at 8:30 on an unseasonably chilly Italian morning. The horror-love story of two lost souls – Timothée as Lee and Taylor Russell (Waves) as Maren – driven by their inner urges to consume human flesh is directed by Luca Guadagnino and co-stars Mark Rylance and an almost unrecognizable, Chloë Sevigny.

The bellinis were flowing on the Lido as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association hosted its annual Biennale reception for filmmakers, dignitaries, and other special guests at the 79th Venice Film Festival. Held poolside at the historic Excelsior Hotel, the gathering has become a tradition by the HFPA to not only pay tribute to the creative talent attending but to announce the new recipients of the Association’s co-sponsorship of the Venice Film Residency Program.

China Daily reported on August 29 that director James Cameron showed an exclusive clip of Avatar: The Way of Water in Beijing on August 19, along with a video greeting attendees from the China Film Group who were present. The clip was in the CINITY format of 3D, 4K, and high-frame-rate, and was screened at the CINITY Lab of China Film.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Venice reception this year was a familiarly laid-back affair. Guests networked poolside at the Lido’s Moorish-styled Excelsior hotel overlooking the azure Adriatic.

There’s no denying that glamour and tragedy make for an irresistible combination. Add in a beloved royal icon and it’s no surprise that the world’s fascination and obsession with Princess Diana hasn’t waned.

Nonfiction cinema does many things well. It can generate empathy by dropping audiences into circumstances vastly different from their own.