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Kevin Spacey’s comeback bid rolls on with another cameo at a high-profile international film festival.

The actor is set to appear at a gala event during the Venice Film Festival in Italy, where he will present a trailer for his sci-fi thriller, Holiguards Saga — The Portal of Force. The film, intended to launch a franchise, also stars Spacey alongside Dolph Lundgren, Tyrese Gibson, Brianna Hildebrand, Disha Patani, Eric Roberts, Harry Goodwins and Lado Okhotnikov.

The story centers on the conflict between two ancient supernatural factions, the Holiguards and the Statiguards, as they wage a secret war for control of humanity. Amid the conflict, a woman discovers she’s the daughter of two rival leaders, giving her the power to end the conflict. Meanwhile, a Statiguard strategist prepares a catastrophic attack in Paris using a nuclear device and an army of mind-controlled civilians, channeling energy from a cosmic portal to awaken an ancient force known as the Prime.

The event is set for Aug. 29 and is being presented in partnership with Elledgy Media Group, which confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter. Expected to attend are members of the film team, including actor Goodwins and Elledgy Media Group founder Elvira Paterson-Gavrilova. The gala program also touts an appearance by an opera singer and the Georgian dance ensemble Holiguard Fire, which created a series of dance performances for the film.

“This project was both a challenge and an inspiration for us. Holiguards is a story about choice, strength, and inner conflict, told through the language of cinema,” Paterson-Gavrilova said. “As a producer, it was important for me to support an ambitious production that is not afraid to be new, complex, and honest. The entire film crew is proud that we are bringing this vision to life step by step.”

The film marks Spacey’s first directing effort in 20 years, and the subject matter seems a far cry from earlier work like 2004’s Beyond the Sea, which found him starring as “Mack the Knife” singer Bobby Darin opposite Kate Bosworth, and the 1996 crime thriller Albino Alligator starring Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway and Gary Sinise. Filming on the $10 million project Holiguards took place in Mexico in 2023-24, with post-production provided by Elledgy Media Group and Lado Film. It was developed and produced by Paterson-Gavrilova from a script by Lado Okhotnikov and Sergey Torchilin.

Spacey has been on somewhat of an international tour these past few months. In May, he touched down in Cannes, France, during the film festival to pick up an award at a gala dinner presented by the Better World Fund for excellence in film and television. The trophy was the latest in a series of awards the actor picked up as he attempts to regain a foothold in his career, which took a blow — including a 2017 firing from Netflix’s House of Cards — due to sexual misconduct allegations and legal battles. Spacey always denied all criminal charges and was found not guilty in sexual assault trials in the U.S. and the U.K.

“Who would have ever thought that honoring someone who has been exonerated in every single courtroom he’s ever walked into would be thought of as a brave idea,” Spacey said in his acceptance speech, during which he also praised his manager and “best friend,” Evan Lowenstein. He credited him with helping the actor “come out the other side of these last few challenging years not angry, not bitter, not resentful, but more present, more loving, more understanding and more forgiving than I ever have been in my life.”

Last year, he was honored with a trophy for a voice role in the 2023 U.K. action thriller Control by the Folkestone Independent Film Awards in addition to receiving Italy’s Nations Award for Lifetime Achievement at a special gala in the historic southern Sicilian town of Taormina. More recently, and after the Cannes showing that also included a stop at amfAR’s Cannes gala, Spacey has appeared at the Italian Global Series Festival and at Andrea Bocelli’s Notti Toscane event.

So far, Oasis have let the music do the talking. Liam and Noel Gallagher have just wound up the first round of UK and Irish dates on their sold-out Live ’25 tour and in a testament to the breathless enthusiasm that’s greeted their first round of shows in more than 16 years they’ve hardly had to talk up the dates at all.

In fact, until Tuesday (Aug. 19) neither brother had sat down for a proper interview about the shows at all. But Noel, who like his younger sibling singer Liam, is simply mad about football, called in to his favorite drive-time sports chat show, talkSPORT with Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent, to chat about Man City, and, of course, how things are going with the formerly battling brothers.

Saying he was feeling “a bit shaky” after the band’s two-night run at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland on Saturday (Aug. 16) and Sunday (Aug. 17), Gallagher summed up the weekend by saying, “there was a lot of singing, a lot of drinking and a lot of talking nonsense… it was quite a night.”

Noel said he’s on “top of the world” at the moment, professing to be “completely blown away” by how the gigs the reunited band have played so far have been received. “It’s difficult to put into words, actually,” said the band’s lyricist. “Every night is the crowd’s first night, so every night’s got that same kind of energy. It’s been truly amazing… I’m not usually short for words, but I can’t really articulate it at the minute.”

Asked how he was feeling on July 4 in Cardiff, Wales, when the band were gearing up to take the stage for the first show of a tour pretty much nobody thought would ever happen, Noel said Oasis have never been one of those bands who have a prayerful “huddle” before they go on. That said, speaking just for himself, Noel admitted he, “grossly underestimated what I was getting into… After about five minutes I was like, ‘All right, can I just go back to the dressing room and start this again?’ I’ve done stadiums before and all but, but I don’t mind telling you my legs are turned to jelly after about halfway through the second song.”

Summing it up, Noel said simply, “it’s been an amazing thing.” Reflecting on the emotional hug the brothers shared at the end of the first reunion show in July, Noel said, “we’re not those kind of guys, really… It’s great just to be back with [guitarist] Bonehead and Liam and just be doing it again. I guess when it’s all said and done we’ll sit and reflect on it, but it’s great being back in a band with Liam. I forgot how funny he was.”

Giving his former sibling rival props for sounding great at the shows, Noel said, “Liam’s smashing it. I’m proud of him.” After fronting his own band for the 16 years they were apart — the High Flying Birds — Noel said he knows the pressures of being the lead singer and admitted, “I couldn’t do the stadium thing like he does it…. I kind of look around and I think, ‘You know, good for you, mate.’ He’s been amazing.”

Also, in case you were wondering, yes, he’s still getting hit up all the time by mates looking to score the hard-to-get tickets. “When it all started, the ticket sales and all that, there was a few people who I would have expected to [be] looking for tickets who didn’t,” he said. “But after the first gig my phone just exploded.” Saying he feels bad for those who are left outside on the streets singing the band’s songs at top volume after getting shut out on getting tickets, Noel said the showering of love is “mental… it’s more than the band. It’s more than the songs. There’s something else going on that we’ve not quite been able to our fingers on yet.

Looking forward, Noel said he’s really looking forward to playing one of the band’s last shows, at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Nov. 15 and 16. “We’ve played there a couple of times and the Argentinians are without doubt in the top five places for us to play in the world.”

When Goldstein brought up persistent rumors that the band might be playing the Knebworth Festival next year on the 30th anniversary of their legendary 1996 headlining slot for 250,000 fans over two nights at that event, Noel politely moved right past that query and insisted they get on with the football talk.

Listen to Noel Gallagher on talkSPORT below.