Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt will premiere their new movies at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, reports People. The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival opens in Italy on August 28, showcasing a number of star-studded new movies.
The titles also include ‘Maria’, a drama in which Jolie plays real-life opera diva Maria Callas. The film is directed by Pablo Larrain, who previously directed Natalie Portman and Kristen Stewart to Oscar nominations for ‘Jackie’ (2016) and ‘Spencer’ (2021). ‘Maria’ is part of the competition lineup in Venice. The film also stars Kodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher and Haluk Bilginer.
Pitt will reunite with George Clooney for ‘Wolves’, which will be screened at the festival out of competition. In the action-thriller directed by Jon Watts, the actors play lone-wolf fixers who are tasked with the same job. Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams and Richard Kind are among the cast. Jolie visited the Venice Film Festival in 2004 with the animated film Shark Tale. She attended the international premiere with her three-year-old son Maddox. She also appeared on the red carpet at the festival in 2007 to support Pitt’s film ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford’. Jolie’s next directorial film ‘Without Blood’, starring Salma Hayek Pinault in the lead role, will premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
Pitt’s sports drama ‘F1’ will hit theaters on June 27, 2025. Jolie and Pitt also appeared together in the 2005 film ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ as ​​well as the 2015 film ‘By the Sea’, which Jolie also wrote and directed. She filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016 and was declared legally single in 2019. They have six children, the youngest of whom are twins Vivienne and Knox, who are now 16, reports People.
