Death to open Venice
by BAZ BAMIGBOYE, Daily Mail
Last updated at 12:17 28 July 2006
There'll be a sort of death in Venice to kick off the Venice Film Festival this year. Brian De Palma's screen version of James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia has been picked to open the event.
The picture, set in the Hollywood of 1947, stars Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart in a story about two Los Angeles cops who investigate a good-time girl's murder.
Other films in competition include Stephen Frears's The Queen, starring Helen Mirren and Michael Sheen; The Fountain, with Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman; and Bobby, about the night Robert Kennedy was shot, with Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan and Laurence Fishburne.
Michael Caine, Clive Owen and Julianne Moore will be seen in Alfonso Cuaron's sci-fithriller Children Of Men.
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