There will be no more American installments of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series starring Rooney Mara. I am chunking the deuce to any and all U.S. sequels of the film and I am not sad about it.

If you're a Brian De Palma fan (and why wouldn't you be?), you know that a lot of his movies feature vaguely threatening women doing vaguely threatening things. Sometimes, those things are not always what they seem, WINK WINK (I'm winking, fyi), which means that there's a twist, or what M. Night Shyamalan would…

Rooney Mara's W spread shows a dramatic transformation into Lisbeth Salander. And, some say, an unnecessarily sexualized one.

• Karl Lagerfeld gave the Pirelli calendar — which traditionally features "artistic" nude shots of top models — the theme of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. And he added one (clothed) Julianne Moore and, a Pirelli first, several (unclothed) men. [Telegraph]

• More on this in Midweek Madness: Life & Style is reporting that before she entered a treatment center, Demi Lovato had become a big fan of cocaine.

• A "friend" of Taylor Swift says that the singer wants nothing to do with the song Kanye West claims he wrote for her.

From gamine to glam to justplain weird, the 67th Annual Venice Film Festival has been, sartorially-speaking, one to remember.