You had us at ‘sexpionage’. According to Deadline, Fox has hired American Hustle screenwriter Eric Warren Singer to adapt Jason Matthews’ novel Red Sparrow for the screen. Though he’s yet to start work, the suggestion of David Fincher and Rooney Mara being interested in the flick should put some fire under his feet. Mara would star as a Russian spy who […]
Continue reading
Tag Archives: rooney mara
Rooney Mara to play Tiger Lily in ‘Pan’
March 13, 2014 
0 Comments
Rooney Mara is in negotiations to join the cast of Joe Wright’s reimagining of the Peter Pan fairytale, titled Pan. According to The Wrap, Mara would play Tiger Lily, the… and this where things get a little awkward… Native American princess saved from Captain Hook by Peter himself. Though Mara is a fantastic actress, the whitewashing […]
Continue readingGirl With The Dragon Tattoo sequel to be scripted by Se7en writer
July 18, 2013 0 Comments
Talks of a sequel to David Fincher’s English-language remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo have been muted of late, the result of its not-spectacular box office performance in 2011. The Wrap now reports there is some life in the project yet, with Fincher’s Se7en screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker having been tasked by Sony […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
May 29, 2013 0 Comments
The first trailer for David Lowery’s crime drama Ain’t Them Bodies Saints has appeared online, and it proves you can’t go home again. Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) and Ruth Gunthrie (Rooney Mara) are outlaws in love and on the run following a crime spree. A shootout in which Ruth wounds an officer finally sees them […]
Continue readingSexual nightmares and sleep crime – Side Effects review
March 11, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 11, 2013 Steven Soderbergh‘s Side Effects begins as one thing, and then ends as something else entirely. Over the course of its 106 minutes, the feature evolves from an icy, haunting tale of depression and abandonment into a squalid, sordid, serpentine Alfred Hitchcock pastiche. That it can glide from these two […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Side Effects
November 5, 2012 0 Comments
The trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s latest pharmaceutical thriller, Side Effects, has arrived online. Though the teaser is largely ambiguous, from what we know of the picture, Rooney Mara stars as the wife of a convict (Channing Tatum) who develops a drug dependency in the lead-up to his release. Written by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion), Side Effects may well end up Soderbergh’s last […]
Continue readingThe ice queen cometh – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo review
May 22, 2012 0 Comments
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Starring Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig and Christopher Plummer. Directed by David Fincher. Rated MA. Originally published December 22, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is available on DVD, Blu-ray, and Quickflix Pay Per View in Australia from May 23, 2012. Lisbeth Salander chows down on not one but two Happy Meals; a sadistic murderer […]
Continue readingRooney Mara eyes Nick Hornby’s Brooklyn
April 27, 2012 0 Comments
Rooney Mara loves following in Carey Mulligan’s footsteps! The Oscar-nominated young actress is attached to star in a new movie scripted by author Nick Hornby. Hornby, who wrote the novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, made his film debut with an Academy Award nominated adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education (which starred Mulligan). According […]
Continue readingRooney Mara replaces Carey Mulligan in Spike Jonze flick
April 26, 2012 0 Comments
From one ingénue to another. Rooney Mara has replaced Carey Mulligan in the new film from writer-director Spike Jonze, Variety reports. Though details are scarce, the picture concerns a man who falls in love … with a disembodied voice on a computer. Joaquin Phoenix will likely star as the central man, indicating that his self-imposed […]
Continue readingElizabeth Olsen offered role in Oldboy remake
February 29, 2012 0 Comments
Well, if Rooney Mara won’t take on the lead female role in Spike Lee‘s Oldboy remake, Elizabeth Olsen will do just fine! According to Twitch, the Martha Marcy May Marlene star has reportedly been offered a key part opposite Josh Brolin in the project. Mara previously passed, as did Australian Mia Wasikowska. Though anyone who has seen Park Chan-wook‘s supreme […]
Continue readingCheck out the Oscar Class of 2012
February 7, 2012 0 Comments
Hollywood’s finest assembled in Los Angeles this morning for the annual Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon. Of the 188 nominees, 150 showed up and participated in the group photo. Cheese! Click on the image to embiggen. Some stray observations: – Who was the genius that made tiny Michelle Williams stand all the way in the back? […]
Continue readingRooney Mara to team with Steven Soderbergh for Side Effects
January 31, 2012 0 Comments
The newly Oscar-nominated Rooney Mara has booked her first post-Dragon Tattoo role, and it ain’t shabby. The ingénue will take the lead role in Steven Soderbergh‘s pharmaceutical thriller Side Effects (formerly titled Bitter Pill), Deadline reports. Mara is replacing Blake Lively in the picture, which is also set to star Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta-Jones. […]
Continue readingIndian audiences denied The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on account of all the sex
January 30, 2012 0 Comments
Sony has decided not to release David Fincher‘s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in India after the director refused to cut five sexually explicit scenes from the pic. According to Variety, India’s Central Board of Film Certification did not appreciate the sequences in question (three sex scenes and two rape scenes, four of which […]
Continue readingThe ice queen cometh – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo review
January 9, 2012 1 Comment
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Starring Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig and Christopher Plummer. Directed by David Fincher. Rated MA. Originally published December 22, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. Lisbeth Salander chows down on not one but two Happy Meals; a sadistic murderer listens to Enya’s ‘Orinoco Flow’ as a means of psyching himself up […]
Continue readingThe ice queen cometh – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo review
December 22, 2011 4 Comments
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Starring Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig and Christopher Plummer. Directed by David Fincher. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Lisbeth Salander chows down on not one but two Happy Meals; a sadistic murderer listens to Enya’s ‘Orinoco Flow’ as a means of psyching himself up for a kill; and the opening credit sequence is a super-sexy, ultra-violent, James Bond-esque […]
Continue readingClive Owen, Mia Wasikowska offered Oldboy roles
December 19, 2011 0 Comments
Clive Owen and Mia Wasikowska have been targeted to star opposite Josh Brolin in Spike Lee‘s upcoming Oldboy remake. According to Twitch, Owen has been offered the role of primary antagonist. Colin Firth and Christian Bale both turned down the part prior. Meanwhile, Aussie Wasikowska is being courted to take on the lead female role. Rooney Mara was originally suggested to be a contender, but passed […]
Continue readingColin Firth passes on Oldboy
December 9, 2011 1 Comment
Colin Firth has passed on the role of the lead villain in Spike Lee‘s upcoming Oldboy remake, Twitch reports. Christian Bale similarly turned down the part several months ago. Josh Brolin remains set to star in the role originally played by Choi Min-sik in Park Chan-wook‘s 2003 original. He plays a man kidnapped and imprisoned without explanation, and released […]
Continue readingSpike Lee’s Oldboy will have “darker” ending than the original
November 29, 2011 1 Comment
That’s a big call. Producer Roy Lee has told Collider the ending of Spike Lee‘s Oldboy remake will be darker than that seen (and that which can never be unseen) in Park Chan-wook‘s South Korean original. When asked if screenwriter Mark Protosevich would maintain the ending of Park’s flick or if he had returned to […]
Continue readingColin Firth offered villainous role in Oldboy
November 14, 2011 0 Comments
Colin Firth has been offered the part of the villain in Spike Lee‘s upcoming remake of Oldboy, Twitch reports. Though Christian Bale was once said to be considering the role, it seems Oscar winner Firth is now the lead contender. Twitch must have a decent source close to the production, having previously broken the news […]
Continue readingJason Clarke in, Joel Edgerton out of Kill Bin Laden
November 11, 2011 0 Comments
Aussie Jason Clarke is the first actor cast in Kathryn Bigelow‘s upcoming flick Kill Bin Laden, Deadline reports. Joel Edgerton was previously announced as one of the film’s Osama-hunters, but it now seems his busy shooting schedule (which includes the 300 spin-off Battle of Artemisia) has forced him to abandon the project. Tom Hardy, Jennifer Ehle, Idris Elba, Rooney […]
Continue readingTerrence Malick set to become super-prolific; shooting two films in 2012
November 2, 2011 0 Comments
Though considered one of the all-time great filmmakers, Terrence Malick has long been joked about for the glacial speed with which he produces movies. As of the release of The Tree of Life back in June, he had directed only five films over the course of 38 years. Well, it looks as if Malick is about […]
Continue readingRooney Mara wanted for Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake
September 29, 2011 4 Comments
After years in development hell, that English-language remake of the South Korean revenge thriller Oldboy is picking up some steam. Last month it was confirmed Josh Brolin would star and Spike Lee would direct, while Christian Bale is still rumoured to appear as the villain. Twitch now reports The Social Network and The Girl With The […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
September 22, 2011 1 Comment
The feature trailer for David Fincher‘s adaptation of the bestselling novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has debuted online. Last week, ahead of media screenings of Straw Dogs in the US, Sony premiered eight new minutes of footage from Fincher’s upcoming flick. Although we don’t have access to that nugget of goodness, this new […]
Continue readingNew Muppets teaser spoofs The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
September 16, 2011 0 Comments
We adored the spoof trailers for The Muppets that arrived online earlier in the year, which politely skewered romantic comedies, The Hangover Part II and Green Lantern respectively. Now comes a brand new spoofery, in which the energetic, elliptical teaser for David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo gets the Muppet treatment. In the original Dragon teaser, […]
Continue readingNew look at Rooney Mara in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
August 12, 2011 0 Comments
A new, non-nude image of Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher‘s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has landed online. The image below comes courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, who spoke to Mara about the now infamous poster, and acting out the notorious rape scenes from Stieg Larsson’s book. You can read […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Green Band)
June 2, 2011 3 Comments
Earlier in the week we featured the leaked Red Band trailer for David Fincher’s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. After pulling it from the internet, Sony has released an official Green Band look at the “feel bad” movie of the year. Check it out below the new international poster! The few NSFW […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
May 30, 2011 0 Comments
The first Red Band trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has appeared online. Tickets to the self-proclaimed “feel bad movie of Christmas” are sure to be atop many people’s Xmas lists after seeing this teaser. The American adaptation of the best-selling Swedish crime trilogy by Stieg Larsson stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig […]
Continue readingDragon Tattoo director disses Fincher’s remake
November 11, 2010 0 Comments
Do you get annoyed when you hear Hollywood is remaking one of your favourite foreign films? Spare a thought for Niels Arden Oplev – director of the hit Swedish mystery The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – who is about to see his own film get the tinsel-town treatment. We’ve been following David Fincher’s English-language […]
Continue readingYoung folks – The Social Network review
October 26, 2010 0 Comments
The Social Network – Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Armie Hammer. Directed by David Fincher. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. “They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations…They overdo everything – they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything […]
Continue readingRooney Mara is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
August 17, 2010 0 Comments
David Fincher has (finally) selected a young actress to star in his upcoming remake of the hit Swedish film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Rooney Mara. The report comes from Deadline, who note that Mara also appears in Fincher’s next film The Social Network. Mara will star as cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in the English-language […]
Continue reading
Quickflix 
You must be logged in to post a comment.