Venice Sets ‘Halloween Kills’ Screening; Jamie Lee Curtis Golden Lion – Deadline

The 78th Venice Movie Competition will this 12 months award a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to American actress Jamie Lee Curtis. The ceremony will happen on September 8 on the Sala Grande earlier than the out-of-competition screening of David Gordon Inexperienced’s Halloween Kills. Venice runs September 1-11 on the Lido.

Halloween Kills is the follow-up to 2018’s Halloween, which noticed Curtis reprise her iconic position as Laurie Strode and took over $250M worldwide to develop into the highest-grossing chapter within the four-decade franchise.

From Common Photos, Miramax, Blumhouse Productions and Trancas Worldwide Movies current Halloween Kills, begins international rollout on October 14 through Common.

Mentioned Curtis of the Lifetime Achievement, “I’m extremely humbled to be honored on this approach by the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition. It appears inconceivable to me that I’ve been on this trade lengthy sufficient to be receiving ‘Lifetime Achievement’ recognition, and to have it occur now, with Halloween Kills, is especially significant to me. Halloween — and my partnership with Laurie Strode — launched and sustained my profession, and to have these movies evolve into a brand new franchise that’s beloved by audiences around the globe was, and stays, a present. Italian Cinema has at all times honored and heralded the style that gave me my profession, so I couldn’t be extra proud and blissful to just accept this award from the Venice Worldwide Movie Competition on behalf of Laurie and all of the brave heroines of the world who stand tall within the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and refuse to yield.”

Mentioned fest Director Alberto Barbera, “Jamie Lee Curtis belongs to that rarefied group of Hollywood actors who greatest replicate the qualities which might be the very soul of the worldwide movie trade and its legacy. A direct descendant of America’s movie aristocracy — she is the daughter of two unforgettable stars, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh — Jamie Lee Curtis is the pure embodiment of a star who is aware of how one can play roles with versatility and amenability, all whereas infusing them along with her peerless charisma and signature persona. All these qualities, mixed along with her work as an writer of youngsters’s books and her dedication to her charitable work have cemented her standing as an indelible and enduring international artist. To this point, her extraordinary four-decade profession, which started along with her dazzling debut in John Carpenter’s 1978 horror traditional, Halloween, encompasses greater than forty characteristic movies and reminds us that true expertise, mixed with intelligence, wit, endurance and sheer grit, are the hallmarks of this true and unforgettable star.”