Venice, Italy (Variety.com) - Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino ("The Great Beauty") will next direct a drama about Silvio Berlusconi and the former Italian prime minister's inner circle.

VENICE (Reuters) - Among the dramas and thrillers screening in Venice this year, Roan Johnson's story of two Roman youngsters and their families coping with an unwanted pregnancy is part of a genre much rarer at film festivals: a comedy.

VENICE (Reuters) - Argentina is vying for the Golden Lion at this year's Venice film festival with "El Ciudadano Ilustre", a comedy-drama about fame, idols and small-town jealousy that premiered on Sunday.

VENICE (Reuters) - Canadian film director Denis Villeneuve said making sci-fi thriller "Arrival", which has premiered in Venice, was the biggest challenge of his career so far because it meant creating a foreign civilization that obeys different kinds of laws.

VENICE (Reuters) - Director Amat Escalante uses a fantasy creature to explore the sometimes ambiguous relationship people have with sex in his film "La Region Salvaje" (The Untamed), which had its premiere at the Venice film festival on Monday.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - "Star Trek Beyond" has launched impressively in China in first place with a $31.3 million opening weekend at 6,526 locations, seven weeks after its U.S. debut.

VENICE (Reuters) - Mel Gibson called his relationship with Hollywood "survival" as he prepared for the Venice film festival premiere of a war drama that marks his directorial comeback after a turbulent decade in his personal life.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - If there's one Hollywood star you would trust to crash-land a commercial airliner without injuring a soul on board, it would surely be Tom Hanks. After risking his life in order to save his crew in "Captain Phillips," the two-time Oscar-winner takes to the skies -- and mere moments later, to the chilly waters of the Hudson River, after a flock of birds blows out both engines of US Airways Flight 1549 -- in .

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - The second weekend of horror-thriller "Don't Breathe" is showing plenty of life at an otherwise quiet Labor Day box office with an estimated $19.4 million at 3,051 North American locations for the four days.