Russell’s nail-biting drama

THERE are few more misleading terms in the entertainment industry than “sold-out show”. Sure, maybe all the regular tickets for particularly popular gigs sell out within five minutes of going on sale, but there are always some tickets held back for the controversial secondary ticketing market.

Taking a break from the existential angst of Flirting with Disasterand I Heart Huckabees,director David O Russell has two romantic comedies on the way. Aaron and Sarahwill follow two high-school students over four years, including four proms and a funeral, before they eventually fall in love. Nailed,on which Russell is now in post-production, features Jessica Biel as a waitress whose behaviour becomes unpredictable after a nail is accidentally lodged in her head, with Jake Gyllenhaal as the clueless young Washington DC senator who takes up her cause.