{
  "id": 4247067,
  "title": "Venice Film Festival Scraps Jury Press Conference",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/venice-film-festival-scraps-jury-press-conference",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-29T18:02:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/venice-film-festival-scraps-jury-press-conference-1237062641/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Venice Film Festival has taken the unusual step of scrapping its main jury press conference this year, we can reveal. The festival, which gets underway next week, hasn’t made a public statement to confirm the break from protocol but confirmed the move to us after multiple requests to know if it was going ahead. […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Variety",
        "title": "Venice Film Festival Jury Press Conference ‘Probably Not’ Happening Due to Scheduling, Will Replace Event With Welcome Cocktails for Journalists",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/venice-film-festival-jury-press-conference-probably-not-happening-due",
        "published": "2026-08-29T19:48:58.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}