Turn up the air con – it’s getting hot in Venice. As the festival sweltered under a prolonged heatwave, the temperature was raised still further when George Clooney and Brad Pitt arrived on the Lido.
The actors and longstanding friends, who have not appeared at the festival together since 2008, have accumulated such a powerful status in Hollywood that many believed reports that they had been paid $35m (£26.7m) each to star in their new film, Wolfs.
