The term "box office bomb" has taken on new meaning at the Venice Film Festival this year. Fearing terrorist attacks or other security breaches, Marco Muller who runs the festival told the AP that "the number of films that can be projected daily in the main movie theater had been cut to allow time for security personnel to thoroughly check the space between screenings." (54 films are being screened this year compared to 71 in 2004.) In the meantime, celebrities and the paparrazzi alike fret over what these new concerns will mean to the near-sacred red carpet ritual.

