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Cate Blanchett poses for photos as the Jury President for the 2020 Venice Film Festival photo call on Wednesday (September 2) in Venice, Italy.

She was joined by fellow jury members Matt Dillon, Nicola Lagioia, Joanna Hogg, Veronika Franz, Ludivine Sagnier and Christian Petzold.

While at the press conference for the festival that day, Cate was asked about gathering (with masks and safety measures.)

She spoke about how other countries are dealing with the Coronavirus, saying, “Yes, Uncle Economy seems to be the most important member of the family. I find it bizarre that the World Health Organization is not being allowed to lead this global challenge. I think we’re a very strange species that we don’t learn by the painful examples, for example the terrible stress that Italy was under and when it reached other countries they didn’t learn a painful lesson – the way things were handled and the challenges those countries that were first hit and what they faced and what other countries could perhaps prepare for. It’s a very strange thing that I still don’t quite understand, that we behave in quite obtuse and fragmented and destructive ways.”

FYI: Cate is wearing Giorgio Armani.

Cate Blanchett is looking sophisticated and stylish.

The 51-year-old Carol actress was spotted making her arrival at the 2020 Venice Film Festival on Tuesday (September 1) in Venice, Italy.

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Cate wore pants and a blazer, as well as a face mask amid the pandemic.

She is also the festival jury president this year, while Tilda Swinton is getting a lifetime achievement award, and is also there to promote Pedro Almodovar’s The Human Voice. She also made a very emotional arrival with a gesture in honor of an actor we just lost. See the pictures…

Despite postponements and cancellations of most major events in 2020 due to the pandemic, the 2020 Venice Film Festival is still scheduled to take place from September 2 to September 12.

FYI: Cate is wearing a Giorgio Armani look with Clergerie shoes.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro is hard at work on a Pinocchio movie for Netflix and the star-studded cast has been revealed!

The new adaptation of the classic tale will be a stop-motion animated musical movie. Set during the rise of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy, del Toro‘s Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.

Newcomer Gregory Mann is playing the title role, Ewan McGregor will play Cricket, and Harry Potter‘s David Bradley is Geppetto.

Also in the cast are Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Christoph Waltz, Finn Wolfhard, John Turturro, Ron Perlman, Tim Blake Nelson, and Burn Gorman.

“After years of pursuing this dream project, I found my perfect partner in Netflix,” Guillermo said in a statement. “We have spent a long time curating a remarkable cast and crew and have been blessed by continuous support from Netflix to quietly and carefully soldier on, barely missing a beat. We all love and practice animation with great passion and believe it to be the ideal medium to retell this classic story in a completely new way.”

Guillermo is directing the movie with Fantastic Mr. Fox‘s Mark Gustafson. He wrote the script with Patrick McHale and the song lyrics with Katz, with music by Alexandre Desplat, who also is writing the score.

Find out which Oscar winner will be starring in Disney’s live-action adaptation of Pinocchio.

The full list of 2020 Emmy Award nominations were just released this morning and a ton of them are first time nominees!

Among the first time nominees are Cate Blanchett, Taika Waititi and Octavia Spencer, who have already won Oscars; as well as Zendaya, Leslie Odom, Jr. and many others.

The show is currently set to take place on Sunday, September 20 at 8pm ET on ABC, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting.

However, it’s still unclear just how the show will take place, whether it be a virtual program or a socially distanced one.

If you missed it, you can see the breakdown of nominations by network and just which star broke a major record!

Click inside to see all the first time nominees at the 2020 Emmy Awards…

Yvonne Strahovski looks confused as to where she is in this still from her new Netflix show, Stateless.

The limited series is described as a “powerful and timely series about four strangers whose lives collide at an immigration detention center in the middle of the Australian desert: an airline hostess on the run from a dangerous cult, an Afghan refugee and his family fleeing persecution, a young father escaping a dead-end job and a bureaucrat running out of time to contain a national scandal.”

The series stars Cate Blanchett and Dominic West as cult leaders, as well as Jai Courtney, Asher Keddie, Fayssal Bazzi, and Soraya Heidari.

Stateless is set to debut on July 8.

The series has been coming for a long time, as Cate was attached to direct an episode of the show in 2015.

Cate Blanchett has lined up another movie to star in alongside Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway.

Deadline reports that the three actors will join Oscar Isaac and Donald Sutherland in James Gray‘s followup movie to Ad Astra, called Armageddon Time.

The movie is described as “a big-hearted coming-of-age story that explores friendship and loyalty against the backdrop of an America poised to elect Ronald Reagan as president.”

James also says that it’s based on his childhood memories.

“Every film you make is different, but I’m trying to do something that is the opposite of the vast, lonely and dark void of the movie I just directed,” he shared. “I’m anxious to make something that is very much about people, about human emotions and interactions between people, and I want it to be filled with warmth and tenderness.”

James went on, “In some sense, yes it’s about my childhood, but an illustration of familial love really on every level. I’m of the belief that most people do their best and that they try their best under difficult circumstances and in some sense that’s a beautiful thing and very moving to me.”

Cate also lined up three other movies to star in while quarantining at home during the pandemic. Check them out here!

Cate Blanchett is okay after an accident in quarantine.

The 51-year-old Academy Award-winning actress revealed on the most recent episode of A Podcast of One’s Own With Julia Gillard that she accidentally cut her head with a chainsaw.

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“I had a bit of a chainsaw accident yesterday, which sounds very, very exciting, but it wasn’t,” she revealed, adding that she is “fine,” “apart from the little nick to my head.”

“Be very careful with that chainsaw. You’ve got a very famous head. I don’t think people want to see any nicks taken out of it,” responded Julia Gillard.

Cate then amusingly promised to “keep it on my shoulders.”

She and her family have been on lockdown in England amid the pandemic, and she’s been homeschooling her sons: Dashiell, 18, Roman, 16, and Ignatius, 12, and her daughter, Edith, 5.

Click here to listen to the podcast in full.

Cate has an exciting role lined up, involving a massive video game franchise. Find out more!