Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Emma Stone are amongst the wealthy roster of stars featured in hotly anticipated new films anticipated to be launching from Venice Movie Pageant.

With one month to go till the Lido lineup is unveiled, Venice’s creative director Alberto Barbera is racing in opposition to the clock to assemble the competition’s 82nd version, slots for that are nonetheless in flux. However what’s clear is that there will likely be no scarcity of the sort of buzzy titles that make Venice a chief awards season driver.

Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine,” that includes Dwayne Johnson as two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his spouse Daybreak; Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo-themed thriller “After the Hunt” starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri; and “Bugonia,” the newest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone — who had been final at the fest in 2023 with the Oscar-winning “Poor Issues” — are all more likely to be set for a Venice sendoff.

Angelina Jolie, after being on the Lido final 12 months with Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” must also be again in Venice with Alice Winocour’s drama “Couture,” set in the Paris style world.

Netflix appears more likely to be on the Lido with Noah Baumbach’s comedy-drama “Jay Kelly,” starring George Clooney as its enigmatic titular character, and additionally with Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” a brand new tackle the basic monster film with Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth.

One other Netflix movie that would floor at Venice is “A Home of Dynamite,” the subsequent characteristic by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow (“The Harm Locker,” “Zero Darkish Thirty”) with a forged comprising Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso and Jared Harris. The official logline reads: “When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to find out who’s accountable and the way to reply.”

As beforehand revealed by Mubi boss Efe Cakarel, Jim Jarmusch’s triptych image “Father Mom Sister Brother,” starring Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver, can also be believed to be up for a Lido competitors slot. Mubi may additionally be launching Paolo Sorrentino’s new film “La Grazia,” led by “The Nice Magnificence” star Toni Servillo, from Venice if it’s prepared in time.

Italian titles thought-about shoo-ins for Lido competitors debuts embody “Duse,” Pietro Marcello’s biopic about legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, performed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi; and “Beneath the Clouds,” the new high-profile doc by Gianfranco Rosi whose “Sacro GRA” scooped the 2013 Venice Golden Lion. “A Yr of Faculty” by rising auteur Laura Samani, who made a splash with “Small Physique” in 2021, is anticipated to floor someplace in the official choice.

Titles in the combine from Asia embody Fan Bingbing-starrer “Mom Bhumi” from Malaysian filmmaker Chong Keat Aun and Park Chan-wook’s new movie “No Different Alternative.”

As beforehand annouced, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne will preside over the principal jury.

The 82nd version of Venice will run Aug. 27-Sept. 6. The lineup will likely be introduced on July 22.

Elsa Keslassy, Marc Malkin, Jazz Tangcay, Alex Ritman and Naman Ramachandran contributed to this report.