VENICE?Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie were spotted in Venice on Wednesday shooting the crime thriller "The Tourist".

The two were seen in front of the ritzy Danieli Hotel, a stone's throw from Saint Mark's Square, and cruising the Renaissance city's canals in water taxis.

In the film directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck, Depp, 46, plays an American tourist whose life is put in danger when an Interpol agent, played by 34-year-old Jolie, uses him to entrap a criminal with whom she once had an affair.

Jolie arrived in Venice last month with the other half of the "Brangelina" Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and their six children.

Based on the 2004 French movie "Anthony Zimmer" with Sophie Marceau and Yvan Attal, "The Tourist" is set for release in the United States next year.

Von Donnersmarck directed the 2006 hit "The Lives of Others".