Venice Film Festival 2019

Joker director Todd Phillips reveals he spent one year convincing Warner Bros to bankroll R-Rated DC Villain film

Joaquin Phoenix reportedly agreed to play the title role in Joker after a 'drawn-out, four-month process' came to end

Venice Film Festival 2019: Debate on Roman Polanski's inclusion, gender parity dominate opening day

The 76th Venice Film Festival opened with the premiere of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda s The Truth,

Joker director Todd Phillips shares six short clips from film, ahead of trailer release on 28 August

Todd Phillips, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Silver, said the film's plot is more about how Joker becomes the man he came to be known as.

Venice Film Festival 2019: The reverse chronology in Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible, which gets an Out of Competition screening

Gasper Noe's French experimental thriller Irreversible, which will be screened at the Venice Film Festival this year, forces us to think about the sexual violence involved.

Venice Film Festival 2019: Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, Brad Pitt's Ad Astra to compete for Golden Lion at Biennale

Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth will be opening the 76th edition of Venice Film Festival.

Venice Film Festival 2019: Lucrecia Martel announced as jury head, calls it's an 'honour' to be part of Biennale

Lucrecia Martel will head the jury that awards the Venice Film Festival's coveted Golden and Silver Lions