The Venice Film Festival's Schedule Featured "Joker 2" Film

The sequel to Todd Phillips's "Joker," which took home the top award at the Venice Film Festival five years ago, will be released.

The sequel to "Joker," which took home the top award at the Venice Film Festival five years ago, is being directed by Todd Phillips. According to festival organizers, "Joker: Folie à Deux" will compete against 20 other titles on Tuesday.

Joaquin Phoenix plays the mentally ill Arthur Fleck in the eagerly awaited sequel to the popular comic book movie, while Lady Gaga plays Harley Quinn.

The 81st edition of the festival has a new picture lineup that was revealed early on Tuesday and stars Brad Pitt, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Angelina Jolie, and George Clooney.

Pablo Larraín's Maria Callas film "Maria," starring Jolie; Walter Salles' "I'm Still Here"; Halina Reijn's erotic thriller "Babygirl," starring Kidman and Harris Dickinson; Luca Guadagnino's William S. Burrough adaptation "Queer," starring Craig and Jason Schwartzman; and Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, "The Room Next Door," starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, are some of the movies screening alongside "Joker 2" in competition. According to the director, the story, which is set in New England, is about a disgruntled daughter and an unsatisfactory mother.

Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist," starring Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, and Joe Alwyn, and Justin Kurzel's criminal thriller "The Order," which is set in the 1980s and stars Law as an FBI agent, Nicholas Hoult, and Jurnee Smollett, will also compete. The 215-minute epic, which was shot in 70mm, tells the story of a Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz who immigrates to America.

In Jon Watts' action-packed comedy "Wolfs," which revolves on a group of fixers and will screen out of competition, Pitt and Clooney will rejoin.

A number of intriguing movies are showing in the Horizons Extra section. These include Alex Ross Perry's film about Stephen Malkmus' California rock band Pavement, "September 5," which is about Peter Sarsgaard's live television coverage of the Munich Olympics; John Swab's "King Ivory," which stars Ben Foster and James Badge Dale; and others.

Together with his lifetime achievement honor, Peter Weir's epic 2003 film "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" will also be shown in Venice. You may alos read this: Review Of Something In The Water

The festival will also see the premiere of seven episodes of "Disclaimer," Alfonso Cuarón's psychological thriller series. The novel about a documentary journalist and a secret she has been harboring served as the basis for the AppleTV+ series. It will make its streamer premiere in October and stars Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.

The following nonfiction works are not in competition: "One to One: John & Yoko," a reconstruction of the Beatle and his wife's New York years by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards; "Separated," by Errol Morris, about the separation of immigrant children from their parents in the United States; "Russians at War," by Anastasia Trofimova; "Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989," by Göran Hugo Olsson, "Riefenstahl," about the German propagandist; and another documentary with a Beatles theme, "The Things We Said Today," a timeline of the band's arrival in New York and their first performance at Shea Stadium.

The festival that year occurred in the midst of the actors' strike. The festival lacked the regular, steady flow of star power, despite a few attending under temporary agreements, such as Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz for "Ferrari" and "Priscilla" actors Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi. However, the film's impact was seen during the Oscar season: seven world premieres at Venice led to 24 Oscar nominations and five victories, including four for Wes Anderson's "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar" and one for "Poor Things."

As the first major event of a hectic autumn film festival season, Venice serves as a crucial springboard for those vying for honors. Toronto, Telluride, and the New York Film Festivals follow closely after.

Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice" will make its world debut on August 28 to launch the 81st edition. Michael Keaton and the rest of the principal actors are anticipated to walk the red carpet. Through September 7, the Venice Film Festival will take place.