It’s been confirmed that this year’s 78th Venice Film Festival will award a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to actress Jamie Lee Curtis. In announcing the news the festival has confirmed that Curtis’ latest film, Halloween Kills, will also premiere as part of the line-up.
The news, confirmed by Deadline, comes following last week’s reveal of a brand new trailer (below) for the latest entry in the long-running franchise. The ceremony will take place on September 8 at the Sala Grande. Venice runs September 1-11 on the Lido.
Halloween Kills is the follow-up to 2018’s Halloween, which saw Curtis reprise her iconic role as Laurie Strode and took over $250M worldwide to become the highest-grossing chapter in the four-decade franchise.
Speaking of the award Curtis said “I am incredibly humbled to be honored in this way by the Venice International Film Festival. It seems impossible to me that I’ve been in this industry long enough to be receiving ‘Lifetime Achievement’ recognition, and to have it happen now, with Halloween Kills, is particularly meaningful to me. Halloween — and my partnership with Laurie Strode — launched and sustained my career, and to have these films evolve into a new franchise that is beloved by audiences around the world was, and remains, a gift. Italian Cinema has always honored and heralded the genre that gave me my career, so I couldn’t be more proud and happy to accept this award from the Venice International Film Festival on behalf of Laurie and all the courageous heroines of the world who stand tall in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and refuse to yield.”
In addition to the Halloween movies, Curtis’ career spans almost every genre of film, including the recent Knives Out and classic comedies A Fish Called Wanda, Trading Places and Freaky Friday; as well as action pics True Lies and Blue Steel; and dramas The Tailor Of Panama, My Girl and Forever Young.
In case you missed it, you can watch the latest trailer for the film in the player below:
Directed by the legendary David Gordon Green, Halloween Kills stars Anthony Michael Hall, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Kyle Richards. The film is due for release in cinemas on October 15, 2021.
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