‘Wolfs’ George Clooney & Brad Pitt Action Comedy Earns 5-Minute Ovation — Venice Film Festival
deadline.comContinuing their 23-year onscreen collaboration, George Clooney and Brad Pitt brought their latest co-starring venture to the Venice Film Festival today as Wolfs world premiered out of competition.
The official screening was greeted with a five-minute, 35-second ovation Sunday inside the Sala Grande. The duo danced to Sade’s ‘Smooth Operator’ as the credits rolled and they greeted fans on the way out, during which they also received congratulations from Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch in the audience.
Also in attendance were cast members Amy Ryan and Austin Abrams. A no-show, however, was writer-director Jon Watts who, Clooney told the press this morning, is sick with Covid, “He flew all the way here and he got Covid and he’s now in bed.” From Apple Original Films, Wolfs follows Clooney as a professional fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime.
But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up and the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control in ways that neither of them expected.
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