Premieres to vie for Venice glory
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Films competing for the top prize at Venice Film Festival will receive their world premiere at the event.
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One of the year's most anticipated movies, Stephen Frears' &quot;The Queen&quot; starring Helen Mirren, has become an early contender for the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival when it was lauded by critics ahead of its world premiere.
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Robert De Niro splashed up in Venice as a tough-talking gangster with fins for the spectacular world premiere of "Shark Tale" on Friday, which will be screened for thousands in the city's famous St. Mark's square.
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Dame Helen Mirren's latest film The Queen is among the favourites to win at the Venice Film Festival.
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Venice Film Festival Director Marco Mueller likens the 75-year-old festival to a seismograph that picks up emerging cinematic trends. If his instincts are right, the film world is about to be jolted by a new movement focusing on atonement.
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The Prince of Wales will be among guests at the London premiere of The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson will launch the Venice Film Festival with the world premiere of The Black Dahlia.
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The Queen, about the days after the death of Princess Diana, is tipped to win at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
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The Venice Film Festival dazzled like never before this year with its string of Hollywood stars and hot arthouse directors, but the festival's new chief may find delays and embarrassing blunders are what people remember.
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VENICE, Italy  - Venice Film Festival   organizers suspended a war of words with their upcoming Rome   rival as this year's event kicked off in low-key fashion   Wednesday with the world premiere of Brian De Palma's murder   mystery "The Black Dalhia."
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The 11-day Venice Film Festival winds up  on Saturday after a red carpet award ceremony on the glamorous  Lido beach front, with British entry "The Queen" and  Hollywood's "Bobby" favorites to take away the main prize.
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The guessing game is almost over at the Venice film festival, where few clear frontrunners for the Golden Lion award for best picture have emerged ahead of the prize ceremony on Saturday evening.
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Film premieres are back and how! In fact, the multiplexes in Mumbai are vying with each other to obtain the premiere shows of forthcoming biggies.
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Venice's Fenice Opera House hosts its first performance since it was gutted by fire in 1996.
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Italians are bracing themselves for   blood on the red carpet as Rome launches its own film festival   next month in what many see as a challenge to Venice.
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The Venice film festival marked its 75th anniversary Wednesday with a sparkling opening gala and world premiere of British psychological drama &quot;Atonement&quot; starring Keira Knightley.
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A mix of big Hollywood productions and  arty European movies will mark Rome's first international film  festival next month, organizers said on Tuesday as they played  down rivalry with Venice's venerable film contest.