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Hollywood icons Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks collaborate on Sully, based on the autobiographical book, Highest Duty, about Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, the pilot who landed the US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River, in 2009. Against all odds, Captain Sully saved all 155 lives onboard.

Summer wanes and so does the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. The Lido will soon be back to its calm rhythms, as the movie circus decamps for further stops on the festival trail - Canada's Toronto International Film Festival, from September 8 to 18, Spain's San Sebastian, from 16 to 24; and, in October, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Golden Globe nominated director Pablo Larraín confirms that he is one of the brightest young talents in film making with the world premiere of his Jackie, which screened in competition on the Lido. The Chilean director has a gift for casting an oblique light of famous lives – witness the excellent Neruda, which was just screened in Cannes, on the life of his famous countryman and poet.

Director John Landis came to the Lido with his wife, costume designer and curator Deborah Nadoolman to present the first ever look at the restored version of his 1981 beloved horror classic An American Werewolf in London at the Venice Film Festival. The film is the story of two American college students, Jack (Griffin Dunne) and David (David Naughton) backpacking through Britain when a large wolf attacks them.

All festivals are, by their own nature, a perfect environment for promotion. The most spectacular feats of publicity are usually reserved for Venice's younger cousin, Cannes, but Lido & Lagoon have their own particular dose of look-at-me-strategies.

With a ten minute standing ovation after the first screening of his Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson could hardly have hoped for a more auspicious return to filmmaking. The Word War II epic marks his fifth feature as a director and the first since Apocalypto ten years ago.

Ulrich Seidl has already won three Venice Festival awards, two for Paradise: Faith in 2012 and the Grand Special Jury Prize for his 2001 feature Hundstage (Dog Days). He is back now with Safari, a film that is shown in the festival’s  documentary section.

Better Things (premiering on FX September 8, 2016) gives Pamela Adlon titles few women are able to access individually, never mind altogether. “Yeah, I’m the writer, producer, actor.

Labor Day weekend is typically a slow one at the domestic box office, as Americans traditionally prefer to enjoy the last days of summer Sun to sitting in air conditioned movie theatres. This frame was no exception.

While festivalgoers are taken with the mundane business of premieres, red carpets, press conferences and generally binging on (and arguing about) films, the future of the art form is on view in a room tucked on the Casino mezzanine here. At least that’s what the Virtual Reality boosters would like you to think.