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Ten-plus years as a movie journalist and I still haven\u2019t attended the most prestigious film festivals, like Cannes or Venice<\/a>. Much as I relish the idea of hanging around Hollywood muckety mucks by the French Riviera, participating in its notoriously long standing ovations<\/a> makes me want to never get on the plane at all. The hell\u2019s the point? We obviously should share gestures of appreciation when we see good work. But standing and clapping for the length of a Fortnite match is industry navel-gazing and ego-stroking at its most extreme\u2014an empty exercise that serves no good beyond artificial pre-release buzz. Sometimes unwarranted buzz at that. (See: Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux and its 11-minute applause at Venice in 2024.) So I\u2019m salivating that The Studio<\/a> is poised to roast it to bits.<\/p>\n On April 7, Variety<\/a> reported that pop music legend Madonna is shooting scenes for the highly-anticipated season 2 of The Studio. The word around town is that the show is taking aim at Madonna\u2019s own recent attempts to direct her biopic. In 2021, Universal was set to make Madonna\u2019s movie with Julia Garner<\/a> portraying the Material Girl, until the project fell through in 2023.<\/p>\n Variety reports that in the next season of The Studio, the fictional Continental Studios produces Madonna\u2019s film and brings it to Venice. (Both Madonna and Garner will play themselves.) Variety cites sources close to the series that part of Madonna\u2019s two-part episode will lampoon the comically long ovations at Cannes and Venice. Wrote Variety: \u201c[T]he back half of Madonna\u2019s episodes focuses on the all-important debate around journalists timing festival standing ovations to provide a sense of how films will play in the wider world. Trust us\u2014it\u2019s a whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Variety\u2019s reporting supports earlier accounts of creator Seth Rogen<\/a> present at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, where he attended several premieres and fixed his attention on the post-screening applauses. In September, ScreenDaily<\/a> wrote that Rogen was \u201cseen taking photos and videos of the celebratory applause at the end of screenings.\u201d He was also seen in conversation with Italian journalists in attendance.<\/p>\n No one besides Team The Studio actually knows what\u2019s up. But I\u2019m putting money on the possibility of an entire episode taking place during a 20-minute ovation. We\u2019ve seen The Studio pull off real-time feats already, and really, it\u2019s the kind of inside baseball gag this show would do. And I love it. Just give them all the Emmy right now. They\u2019ll probably be relieved to not hear any more clapping.<\/p>\n You Might Also Like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” Ten-plus years as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,5436,13847,252013,12798,15741,24350],"class_list":{"0":"post-572152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-julia-garner","11":"tag-madonna","12":"tag-standing-ovations","13":"tag-the-studio","14":"tag-venice","15":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}