Clooney, Bullock To Open Venice Film Festival With "Gravity"

The world premiere of Mexican film director Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity",starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will open the 70th Venice International Film Festival next month.
Festival organizers said the 3D thriller starring
Bullock and Clooney as astronauts cast adrift in
space after disaster strikes their shuttle will
kick off the festival on August 28.
Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical
engineer on her first shuttle mission, with
Clooney as veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky
spiraling through the blackness of space.
Cuaron may be best known for directing the
2004 film "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban" but he has also earned three Oscar
nominations for the "Children of Men" in 2006
and "Y Tu Mama Tambien" in 2001.
The 70th Venice International Film Festival,
organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will be held
on the Lido of Venice from August 28 to
September 7.
Veteran Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci,
best known for his steamy 1972 movie "Last
Tango in Paris", will head the jury that decides
the main awards at the annual cinema showcase, including the coveted Golden Lion prize for best picture.The line-up of the festival will be announced at the end of July in Rome.

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