Trade Roundup: Venice Film Festival Relies On Overly Literal Visual Metaphor

· A giant wrecking ball “made to look like it’s smashing the facade of the fascist-era Palazzo del Cinema” made for a unique and creative conversation piece to kick off the Venice Film Festival, but placing a flattened and spread-eagled adhesive image of Lindsay Lohan on it bordered on bad taste. [Variety]
· What happens when you get overpaid to underperform? You get sent to a war zone, that’s what! [Variety]
· New CBS game show Power of 10 scored its highest ratings yet with a crossover episode in which US Big Brother houseguests faced off for big money prizes. Contestant Amber came away with a grand, for correctly predicting the percentage of Americans who think all Jews are money-grubbing, cloven-hoofed heathens who can never be trusted. (A whopping 38%!)
· Jeremy Davies has been cast in a “heavily recurring” role on the next season of Lost, playing a “mysterious new character whose bellybutton needs to be poked every 108 minutes.” [THR]
· Ben Affleck is just the latest in a veritable constellation of stars who have signed on to He’s Just Not That Into You, the movie based on the book based on the Sex and the City phrase that, quite frankly, we dearly wish had never been uttered. [THR]

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