David Fincher's highly anticipated "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" — based on the first book in a trilogy of novels by Swedish author Stieg Larsson — did decent business. The Sony Pictures movie opened Tuesday night, but grossed $19.4 million over Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol beat out David Fincher's edgy and violent [...]
A string of high profile new releases, including The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and We Bought a Zoo are failing to live up to expectations, so far. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, an adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel by the same name, 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' and 'We Bought A Zoo' [...]
This has been a banner year for screenwriter and director Steven Zaillian: He wrote the script for the critically acclaimed box-office successMoneybal. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) dir. David Fincher Starring: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgaard, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright ***½. By Alan Bacchus I don't think we should consider this picture as [...]
Here's Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in the new David Fincher version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (left) — and Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth in the… In David Fincher's remake of the Swedish thriller sensation, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the tart-tongued American actress (Mara) who put down Jesse Eisenberg so effectively [...]
The late, great Stieg Larsson's best-selling “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” — the Hollywood version hit North American theaters this week — was the first to tap into a hitherto undiscovered global fascination with Nordic number crunching. ComingSoon.net talked with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo screenwriter Steven Zaillian about his new movie, but [...]
Even the positive reviews — and most of them have been positive — note that Fincher's movie is a pretty chilly affair. Considering he personally had no say over the cinematic adaptations of his work, the just-released David Fincher version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and the 2009 Swedish version both stick remarkably [...]
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" has captivated audiences twice already in recent years and introduced an iconic heroine in hacker Lisbeth Salander. Now David Fincher's new English-language version has the challenge of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" has captivated audiences twice already in recent years and introduced an iconic heroine in hacker Lisbeth [...]
Where was I? Oh, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. David Fincher has a steady stream of moderate success going on. Both The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social Network debuted with $20m+, and Zodiac, his film before Benjamin Button, Today in books: Stieg Larsson's longtime girlfriend isn'ta fan of Rooney Mara or [...]
Arts Desk is Washington City Paper's blog about D.C. music, film, theater, books, and performance. After penning the script for such high-profile films as "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)" and "Moneyball", acclaimed screenwriter/filmmaker Steven Zaillian is set to serve behind the lens for another adaptation movie. The Oscar-winning scribe The 30-piece collection debuted [...]
We have a feeling this won´t be the last honor that this film receives! MTV has released its first ever list of the best movies of the year, and the winner of the top spot was The Girl with On the reason why, director David Fincher explains it 'doesn't seem prudent' to him to go [...]
