Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to debut films at Venice Film Festival

24 July, 2024

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

Angelia Jolie and Brad Pitt will both debut in two new films at this year’s Venice Film Festival.

The ex husband and wife will appear in separate films at the 2024 edition of the event. Jolie will appear in Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s biopic Maria. In this, Jolie stars as famed opera singer Maria Callas.

The film, written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, also stars Kodi Smit-McPhee and Pierfrancesco Favino.

Pitt, meanwhile, will appear with George Clooney in Wolfs, Jon Watts’ action drama about two lone wolf fixers who have both been given the same job. This film will compete at the festival out of competition.

Other films that were announced for the competition yesterday (July 23) included Luca Guadagnino’s QUEER, which stars Daniel Craig and Omar Apollo in his first film role. You can watch the full list of film announcements here:

In other Pitt and Jolie news, the pair’s daughter Shiloh has revealed that “painful events” led to her recent name change.

Shiloh, who is the third-eldest child of the former Hollywood couple, applied for a name change on her 18th birthday this year (May 27). She filed the petition at the Los Angeles County Superior Court and as per law in California, publicly announced her decision to make the name change in a legal notice in the Los Angeles Times.

According to the petition (via The Los Angeles Times), she wants to be known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie going forward.

It came after two of Pitt and Jolie’s other children appeared to have distanced themselves from Pitt’s name, with eldest daughter Zahara introducing herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” in an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority video (via Essence). Daughter Vivienne also recently dropped the name Pitt from a credit in Playbill for Broadway’s The Outsiders, according to People.

This arrived amid Pitt and Jolie’s ongoing divorce proceedings. Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 following an alleged physical altercation on a private plane, with one of their children, Maddix, allegedly involved in the incident.

Pitt was subject to a “child abuse investigation” in relation to the alleged incident, with the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services later clearing the actor of wrongdoing.

Details of the alleged altercation came to light further in 2022 after Jolie was revealed to be the plaintiff in an anonymous complaint against the FBI, which had closed an investigation into Pitt’s alleged domestic assault. Pitt has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.

The former couple have also been involved in a dispute over their French winery Château Miraval, with Pitt suing Jolie in 2022 over her alleged selling of her share of the winery without his prior consent.

Jolie claims that Pitt blocked her sale of the property and would only agree if he agreed to a “more onerous” and “expansive” NDA. Jolie has previously suggested that Pitt wants her to sign an NDA to stop her speaking out about his alleged abusive behaviour towards her and her children.

Earlier this year, Jolie’s lawyers labelled Pitt’s attempts to obtain her past NDAs with third parties as “abusive”.

In April, Jolie’s lawyers claimed that Pitt was physically abusive prior to the plane incident, with a representative for Pitt declining to comment on the new abuse allegations.

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