{"id":882457,"date":"2026-09-04T01:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882457\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T01:32:11","slug":"wild-horse-nine-with-john-malkovich-sam-rockwell-earns-venice-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/882457\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Horse Nine With John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell Earns Venice Ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn what will surely be one of the biggest standing ovations at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival<\/a>, Martin McDonagh<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d received a thunderous 13 minutes of applause at its world premiere on Thursday night and stormed into the Oscar race.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Malkovick, who stars in the movie with Sam Rockwell<\/a>, got emotional and McDonagh looked touched as the cheering raged on, with Sam partner, \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d star Leslie Bibb, leading the charge with plenty of hoots and hollers. In fact, it was a \u201cWhite Lotus\u201d reunion as Bibb\u2019s Season 3 co-star, Parker Posey \u2014 who also appears in the film \u2014 teared up while she fanned herself and mouthed about the sweltering temperature in the theater. As the applause continued, McDonagh and Rockwell went into the crowd, shaking hands and signing autographs.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet in 1973, \u201cWild Horse Nine\u201d follows two CIA officers (Malkovich and Rockwell) who are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island shortly before the Chilean military coup that overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende. Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits and Posey round out the ensemble. During the screening, the audience broke out into applause twice \u2014 once when Malkovich\u2019s character goes on a rant about cheese and again when he expressed a deep desire to visit Venice, Italy. Fitting, huh?<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore they headed into the Sala Grande theater in the Palazzo del Cinema, McDonagh was joined by his partner, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and was swatting away mosquitoes as he posed for photos on the famed red carpet. The pair were giggling as they took in the hectic scene around them. Meanwhile Bibb stood off to the side with Buscemi and clapped for Rockwell, who was smiling and waving to fans.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWild Horse Nine,\u201d which will compete for the Golden Lion, marks McDonagh\u2019s third consecutive feature to launch at Venice after 2017\u2019s \u201cThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri\u201d and 2022\u2019s \u201cThe Banshees of Inisherin.\u201d \u201cThree Billboards\u201d won Venice\u2019s best screenplay prize before earning seven Oscar nominations and two wins, for Frances McDormand and Rockwell. Five years later, \u201cThe Banshees of Inisherin\u201d brought McDonagh another screenplay prize on the Lido and earned Colin Farrell the Volpi Cup for best actor before going on to score nine Academy Award nominations.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlready, Malkovich is drumming up awards buzz for his role in \u201cWild Horse Nine.\u201d A scene-stealer in his decades-long Hollywood career \u2014 appearing in movies such as \u201cDangerous Liaisons,\u201d \u201cBeing John Malkovich<\/a>,\u201d \u201cIn the Line of Fire\u201d and \u201cEmpire of the Sun\u201d \u2014 Malkovich has been nominated for two Academy Awards but never won.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, he\u2019s not quite ready to prep his acceptance speech. \u201cThat is an incredibly kind,\u201d Malkovich said of the awards chatter<\/a> at an earlier press conference. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s a very nice thing. But the nicest thing is the film getting attention. And the film has several terrific performers, and it\u2019s beautifully written and directed. That\u2019s what matters to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what will surely be one of the biggest standing ovations at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival, Martin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,2626,240230,18110,4186],"class_list":["post-882457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-john-malkovich","tag-martin-mcdonagh","tag-sam-rockwell","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}