As the Venice Film Festival reveals its line-up of highly anticipated movies for their next edition, some of the titles that will be screened at the event finally get their first-look revealed to the public. One of those titles is The Brutalist, a post-WWII drama that stars Adrien Brody (Asteroid City) as a Hungarian Jew who decides to live in the U.S. after surviving the horrors of Auschwitz. The cast also stars Felicity Jones (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), and the drama is yet to receive a wide release date.

The first-look image reveals László Tóth (Brody) and Erzsébet (Jones) during one of the turning points of The Brutalist. In the story, László quickly discovers that achieving the American dream is hardly an easy feat, and after struggling through years and years of poverty, he finally sees a turning point when a patron decides to trust him to lead a massive architectural project.

The patron is called Harrison Lee Van Buren and he’s played by Guy Pearce (Mare of Easttown), and the cast of The Brutalist also features some great names like Joe Alwyn (Kinds of Kindness), Raffey Cassidy (White Noise), Isaach De Bankolé (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever), Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off), Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac), Jonathan Hyde (Titanic), and Peter Polycarpou (Evita).

The unveiling of The Brutalist‘s first-look image at the Venice Film Festival also came with a shocking new information: the movie is 3 hours and 35 minutes long, and it will be screened in 70mm, the way it was filmed. It’s pretty clear that The Brutalist is an ambitious project, and as soon as it premieres in Venice we’ll have an idea if it’s one of the year’s must-watch titles. The new movie is competing for the Golden Lion — the festival’s biggest prize — and this already indicates that the event’s curatorship trusts in the movie’s potential to resonate with audiences.

The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival takes place from August 28 to September 7, 2024.

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EXCLUSIVE: Felicity Jones is set to star in Michael Showalter’s holiday comedy Oh. What. Fun. for Amazon MGM Studios, joining Michelle Pfeiffer, Chloë Grace Moretz and Dominic Sessa.

Showalter, who co-wrote the script with Chandler Baker, is producing via Semi-Formal Productions alongside Jordana Mollick; Tribeca’s Berry Welsh and Jane Rosenthal; and Kate Churchill. The script is based on a short story by Baker, who is also executive producing, that was originally published by Amazon Original Stories.

In the film, Claire Clauster (Pfeiffer) organizes a special Christmas outing when her family forgets her in the shuffle. By the time they realize their mistake, she’s gone missing. Their Christmas is in jeopardy, but Claire has other plans. The pic will be available to stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

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Joel Edgerton (The Gift) and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) are set to star in Train Dreams, the newest feature from Jockey director Clint Bentley, which will be introduced to international buyers at EFM by Black Bear.

Bentley & Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing) penned the script which is an adaptation of Denis Johnson’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated novella. Damien Ober did a previous draft.

Pic tells the story of Robert Grainier (Edgerton), a day laborer employed as a logger helping to expand the railways across America. Forced to spend prolonged periods of time away from his wife, Gladys (Jones), and their young daughter, Grainier struggles to make sense of his place in a rapidly changing world. As his story unfolds, he experiences great love, unspeakable loss and unique bonds, on a journey that is both distinct and universal.

Producers include Marissa McMahon and Ashley Schlaifer for Kamala Films, Will Janowitz, and Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler for Black Bear. Black Bear’s John Friedberg is exec producing along with Kwedar, Casey Affleck, and Scott Hinckley. Picture is being fully financed by Black Bear, with WME Independent be handling U.S. sales. Production kicks off in the state of Washington in April.

“Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar are two of the most exciting American filmmakers working today”, Black Bear’s Schwarzman said. “After a tremendous collaboration on Sing Sing, we’re thrilled to back their next project in Train Dreams, one of the most beautiful scripts we’ve ever read. Our friends at Kamala Films have developed an epic, and we cannot wait for Joel and Felicity to bring to life these incredible characters”.

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