The US movie “Challengers” won’t open the Venice Film Festival subsequent month as deliberate on account of actors putting in North America, the organizers mentioned on Friday.
The US movie “Challengers,” which was was presupposed to open the competition, shall be changed by “Comandante” by director Edoardo De Angelis.
“Challengers, the movie by Luca Guadagnino that had previously been announced, will not participate at the Festival following a decision made by the production,” the competition mentioned in a press release.
The eightieth version of the Venice Film Festival begins on the finish of August.
According to US media, the opening date for the tennis-themed movie has been pushed again to 2024, although filming is accomplished.
The motive for that is that the producers of “Challengers” worry that the movie could possibly be much less profitable with out the energetic advertising and marketing work of lead actress Zendaya, who has greater than 180 million Instagram followers.
Because of the strikes by the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA within the US and Canada, Zendaya is just not allowed to advertise her movie or carry out in Venice. The similar applies to actors Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, who additionally took half within the movie.
Actors and actresses in a number of cities within the US have additionally walked off the job, becoming a member of screenwriters who’ve been on strike for the reason that starting of May.
It is the primary time since 1960 that actors and screenwriters have walked out collectively.
The dispute revolves round pay and using synthetic intelligence. SAG-AFTRA has 160,000 members.
With a number of exceptions, all filming with actors and actresses should be stopped, the union says. According to US media, capturing of movies and sequence is virtually at a standstill.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
