Sean Penn should be directing a movie called “All in the Family,” from the looks of this story.

But his movie is “Flag Day,” written by new Tony Award winner Jez Butterworth, and starring Penn’s two kids, daughter Dylan and son Hopper, with actress Robin Wright. Dylan plays the lead. Butterworth won the Tony for “The Ferryman.”

This is a lot of pressure to put on a young actress who’s never carried a movie or had a large part in one other than an indie four years ago that escaped everyone’s attention (“Condemned”). Also, in this case, the actress’s father is the director. (See “Prizzi’s Honor.”) But Dylan certainly has the genes for it, and Sean wouldn’t put this together unless he trusted his gut. But it can be tricky (see “Godfather III”). The good news is that Jon Kilik is the producer, and we trust him, don’t we? (We do!)

There’s an all star cast including Penn himself, along with Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men, Milk,  The Avengers franchise), two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (“Fosse/Verdon”, Fair Game), Dale Dickey (Hell or High Water, The Pledge), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, 21 Grams), Bailey Noble (“True Blood”), Hopper Penn (War Machine), Miles  Teller  (Whiplash, Too Old To Die Young), and Katheryn Winnick (“Vikings”, The Dark Tower).

I’m actually surprised David Morse isn’t in the movie.

Flag Day is based on Jennifer Vogel’s 2005 memoir “Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father’s Counterfeit Life.” The story centers around a daughter dealing with con man father. It sounds a little like “The Duke of Deception,” which should have been a major motion picture.

Funding is coming from Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Media, and from Ingenious Media. Sulichin has worked producing Oliver Stone movies and more recently Julian Schnabel’s “At Eternity’s Gate.” He was also executive producer of the ill-fated “London Fields,” one of the great disasters of all time.

All eyes in the film world are starting to look at the Venice Film Festival, which will not have Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and likely will have James Gray’s “Ad Astra” with Brad Pitt. (This is going to be Brad Pitt’s year, trust me.)

But the big film in Venice, I am told, will be Roman Polanski’s epic take on the Dreyfus affair, “An Officer and a Spy.” Based on Robert Harris’s best selling novel, which itself was based on Emile Zola’s famous book, the movie stars Oscar winner Jean Dujardin as the French Army officer who works to uncover the truth about fellow officer Alfred Dreyfus circa 1894. Dreyfus was court-martialed for treason and sent to a prison. But was he guilty? Or was his conviction because of anti-Semitism?

The film already looks gorgeous from early photos. Polanski has pulled out all the stops including using the same cinematographer, Pawel Edelman, from his Oscar winning “The Pianist.” Louis Garrell — who ironically will star in Woody Allen’s new movie shooting in Spain this summer– plays Dreyfus. Polanski’s actress wife Emmannuelle Seigner, is featured, as well as Oscar nominee Mathieu Almaric.

It makes sense that the Polanski film will debut at Venice. It’s already set to open in France in November. Producers will be looking to make distribution deals by the end of August. Toronto would be too late. And also, Polanski– who can’t leave France– would at least be in the same time zone as Venice. Plus, the Venice audiences will go crazy for the film without involving Polanski’s annoying and endless American scandal. The Europeans don’t care, and recognize him as a major auteur,

The big question is what will happen in the US to “An Officer and a Spy.” The Motion Picture Academy revoked Polanski’s membership this year, even though they gave him an Oscar fifteen years after his scandal. If the film is as great as everyone hopes, will it just be ignored? Let’s hope not. Anyway, Venice will not ignore him. And Polanski will have a very happy 85th birthday.

The Friday box office wasn’t kind to the sequels. But their loss is the gain of “Rocketman,” now crossing $60 million on its way to $70 million.

The worst of the lot is “Shaft.” The movie got terrible reviews, and made just $2.8 million on Friday including $600,000 from Thursday previews. It will be lucky to make $6 million for the weekend. Bad karma killed it. No Isaac Hayes music. This happened to Samuel L. Jackson on “Soul Men” when those producers wouldn’t include the song “Soul Man” or its singer, Sam Moore. They went down in flames,too.

“Men in Black International” made just $10 million on Friday including Thursday previews. The guestimate for the weekend is way under $30 million. This was a movie no one wanted to see, made by people who had nothing to do with the original.

Finally, “Late Night” is just a huge disaster. They made $1.6 million in wide release after a faux start last week. By Sunday they’ll have $6 million maybe. Amazon Studios really blew this one. There should be studies made of the marketing and publicity. They spent millions at Sundance to get it, and then punted the whole thing. How much worse can things get for Amazon before they make some big changes?

Oh, and “Booksmart”? Dead and nearly gone. Annapurna blew this one, too. What a shame.

Go see “Rocketman,” everyone!