Thompson on Hollywood: What Could Play at the 2013 Venice Film Festival? 'Gravity,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'Twelve Years a Slave' and Malick in the Mix

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What Could Play at the 2013 Venice Film Festival? 'Gravity,' 'Captain Phillips,' 'Twelve Years a Slave' and Malick in the Mix Jun 24th 2013, 18:07 With the fall festival season only two months away, speculation has begun as to what will play at Venice, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. Many are betting that Alfonso Cuaron's space epic "Gravity," starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, who enjoys spending time at his Italian villa, and Paul Greengrass' "Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks as the real-life cargo ship captain who conducted tense negotiations with Somali pirates in 2009, will be part of the lineup. Steve McQueen's "Twelve Years a Slave" could show up there, too; that film, which recently released an array of new images, stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti and more based on the book by and true-life story of Solomon Northrup, a freed black man who was sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War United States. Fox Searchlight has a history of showing such films as "Black Swan" at Venice, but it may be early for a film slated to open... Media files: captain-phillips.jpg (image/jpeg)

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