Venice Film Festival welcomes its first stars as Angelina Jolie arrives ahead of Maria premiere alongside Jenna Ortega and Golden Lion winner Sigourney Weaver... but Winona Ryder goes undercover

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Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00

Written by Daily mail

         Angelina Jolie, Jenna Ortega and Sigourney Weaver have arrived in Venice ahead of the city's annual Film Festival which begins on Wednesday.Actress Angelina, 49, looked as chic as ever in a beige trench coat ahead of the screening for her new film Maria - a biographical drama film about opera singer Maria Callas.Her ex-husband Brad Pitt is also expected to be at the festival later in the week for his new film Wolfs which he stars in with George Clooney.  Jenna, 21, who stars in the Beetlejuice sequel which will open the festival, looked gorgeous in a pleated miniskirt and checked blazer as she arrived ahead of the 81st Venice Film Festival.Her onscreen mother in the movie Winona Ryder, 52, who reprises her role as Lydia, was also spotted arriving but hid her face under a visor hat and was sporting a bizarre chin strap.Sigourney meanwhile happily greeted fans, whilst looking chic in a pair of white wide-legged trousers and a boater hat. Maria is an upcoming biographical drama film about opera singer Maria Callas. It is directed by Pablo Larraín, written by Steven Knight, produced by Fremantle, and stars Angelina Jolie in the title role, with Valeria Golino as her sister Yakinthi, and Haluk Bilginer as Aristotle Onassis.Meanwhile Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will open the festival on August 28.Jenna recently opened up about what it was like meeting Winona Ryder for the first time on the set of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.The Wednesday star plays Astrid Deetz, the daughter of Ryder's character Lydia Deetz in the film. 'She was so warm and welcoming and kind and inviting right from the jump, and I couldn't be more grateful,' Ortega explained in an interview with the New York Times.'It was at a time where my career was taking a different turn, and I didn't realize that I needed that from somebody who could relate, but I did,' she said, adding that she was in a 'transformative' period in her life after shooting to overnight superstardom on Netflix's Wednesday. (…)

source : Daily mail