'The Tempest' to screen at the New York Film Festival

The Tempest, which stars Alan Cumming, will be the Centerpiece selection at this year's New York Film Festival. After it closes the Venice Film Festival on September 11, it will then have its North American debut at the NYFF on Saturday, October 2, 2010.

'The Tempest' to close the Venice Film Festival

The Venice International Film Festival announced earlier today that Julie Taymor's adaptation of The Tempest (which stars Alan Cumming) will close the the festival on September 11. The Tempest is scheduled to open in December and the festival runs from September 1 to September 11.

New The Men Who Stare at Goats footage

The first video is a brand new clip from the film featuring Ewan McGregor and George Clooney:



Ewan doesn't appear a lot in this video from the press conference, but check it out:



You can also go here to for video of Ewan on the red carpet.

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Photos of Ewan McGregor at the Venice Film Festival

Ewan was at the screening for The Men Who Stare at Goats at the Venice Film Festival earlier today. His co-star George Clooney, and director Grant Heslov also made an appearance:

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The Men Who Stare at Goats gets a release date

There's more release date news today with the announcement that The Men Who Stare at Goats will open on November 6, 2009. The film has also been added to the Venice Film Festival line-up, but it will be out of competition.

The film, starring Ewan McGregor is based on Jon Ronson's novel of the same name and focuses on soldiers trained to fight with paranormal powers.

What I find really interesting about this news is the fact that Overture is distributing The Men Who Stare at Goats and it was Overture who announced yesterday that Law Abiding Citizen was being moved to an October 2009 release date. Moving two films into the middle of awards season in the same week seems pretty confident to me.

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