The opening film for this year’s Venice Film Festival has been announced. Whiplash helmer Damien Chazelle‘s La La Land, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, will play in-competition at the start of the festival on August 31st.
The film is described as an ode to Hollywood’s golden age of musicals, and is based on a screenplay that Chazelle wrote before Whiplash, which went on to bag an Academy Award for supporting actor J.K. Simmons, who also features here.
Summit Entertainment will release the film on December 2, 2016. It will expand across America on December 16th, prime-time for Oscar hopefuls.
La La Land will be released in the Uk in January 2017.
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