MOSCOW, Aug 18 — . The Venice Film Festival may be left without celebrity guests, writes Variety. The reason is the strike of the US Actors Guild.
The organization gave permission to participate in the forum to the team of two films: «Ferrari» by Mackle Mann and «Dogman» by Luc Besson. At the same time, as the newspaper notes, they plan to ignore the event in order to avoid negative discussion in the media.
The Venice Festival will begin in Italy on August 30th. Out of competition will show a new film «Palace» directed by Roman Polanski with Russian actor Alexander Petrov.
The Screen Actors Guild went on strike after failing to reach an agreement with the Producers Alliance to improve working conditions. As the union reported, actors and employees of Amazon, Disney, Fox, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. media companies should take part in rallies and pickets across the country. and others.