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 […]
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Tom Cruise attached to Magnificent Seven remake
May 24, 2012 
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Tom Cruise is reported to be attached to the MGM remake of the legendary Western The Magnificent Seven, according to Variety. Director John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven was a 1960 remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, transporting the story from Japan to America and establishing itself as a classic in its own right. MGM is […]
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 readingSmaug is richer than Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, and Citizen Kane combined
April 26, 2012 1 Comment
The Hobbit‘s Smaug has topped Forbes annual list of the richest fictional characters; the treasure hoarding dragon supposedly sits atop a loot worth $62 billion. In second place is Scrooge McDuck’s nemesis Flintheart Glomgold with $51.9 billion – that has to hurt Scrooge. Carlisle Cullen of Twilight fame has collected $36.3 billion over his lifetime(s), […]
Continue readingNorwegian hood – Headhunters review
February 28, 2012 0 Comments
Headhunters – Starring Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund. Directed by Morten Tyldum. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Headhunters plays the Perth International Arts Festival from February 26 to March 11. Click here for more details. It arrives in cinemas nationally March 8, 2012. Morten Tyldum‘s Headhunters is the latest adaptation of a […]
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 Artist takes top prize at PGA awards
January 23, 2012 0 Comments
Can nothing stop black-and-white silent film The Artist from taking home the Best Picture Oscar? Although it has seemed like a lock for some time now, it’s recent victory at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards further cements its status as an Academy Award scooping certainty. The Michel Hazanavicius directed picture bested Bridesmaids, The Descendants, […]
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 Top 10 Films of 2011
December 29, 2011 0 Comments
The Top 10 Films of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. It’s the final week of 2011, so we’re sharing with you, once again, our end-of-year lists. This was originally published on December 22, 2011. That’s all she wrote. The end is nigh. And despite what Lenny Kravitz might sing, it is indeed over. 2011 is rapidly coming […]
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 readingThe Top 10 Films of 2011
December 22, 2011 8 Comments
The Top 10 Films of 2011. By Simon Miraudo. That’s all she wrote. The end is nigh. And despite what Lenny Kravitz might sing, it is indeed over. 2011 is rapidly coming to a close, and after having sat through almost 250 films, I have selected a top ten (plus 20 honourable mentions) to put […]
Continue readingThe Artist leads 69th Golden Globe Award nominees
December 16, 2011 1 Comment
The nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced in Los Angeles yesterday, with silent film The Artist leading the pack with six nominations. There were few surprises among the contenders. Oscar favourites The Descendants and The Help were close behind The Artist with five noms a piece. Notably absent: Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which was only just […]
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 readingTrent Reznor won’t score or star in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
March 14, 2011 0 Comments
Remember when we said that recent Oscar-winning composer and Nine Inch Nails figurehead Trent Reznor would score Timur Bekmambatov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, as well as star as one of the eponymous bloodsuckers? Well, never mind. The following is taken from Reznor’s NIN forum: Don’t believe everything you read. As it turns out, I WON’T […]
Continue readingFirst look at Sherlock Holmes 2
November 25, 2010 1 Comment
What do you do when your Sherlock Holmes reboot is a smashing success? It’s elementary my dear Watson – you make a sequel. The first official image for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes second jaunt, currently untitled, has been released and it’s, well, a bit of a mystery. Reprising their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr […]
Continue readingMore tat than tattoo – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo review
November 19, 2010 8 Comments
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Starring Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist. Directed by Niels Arden Oplev. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Here’s a fun fact: Stieg Larsson’s bestselling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally named ‘Men Who Hate Women’ in its Swedish homeland. Niels Arden Oplev – the filmmaker responsible […]
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 readingMulligan and Rapace competing for role in Alien prequel?
October 8, 2010 0 Comments
A couple of incredibly talented ladies are being touted as potential leads for Ridley Scott‘s upcoming Alien prequels. According to Deadline, Carey Mulligan (An Education) and Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) are both on 20th Century Fox’s radar for the highly sought-after role. Scott and Fox have reportedly met with a number […]
Continue readingHollywood to remake The Secret in their Eyes
October 7, 2010 0 Comments
Juan Jose Campanella‘s The Secret in their Eyes – the most recent winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar – is to be subjected to one of Hollywood’s grandest traditions: the English-language remake! According to the L.A. Times, Warner Bros is close to scoring the remake rights to the film. Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, […]
Continue readingRapace to star in Sherlock Holmes 2
September 13, 2010 0 Comments
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo herself, Noomi Rapace, is set to make her English-language film debut. The Swedish actress has nabbed a high-profile part in Sherlock Holmes 2, as the female lead alongside Robert Downey Jr. According to Heat Vision, Rapace’s casting is the result of her recent visit to Los Angeles, in which […]
Continue readingRenner and Rapace to play Hansel and Gretel?
September 9, 2010 0 Comments
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) and Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) are reportedly in talks to star in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters. The film has been set up at Paramount by Adam McKay (The Other Guys, Anchorman) through his Gary Sanchez Productions shingle. Tommy Wirkola (Dead Snow) is lined up to […]
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 readingA handy guide to the Dragon Tattoo casting
August 2, 2010 0 Comments
What once seemed like an intensive search for an actress is quickly turning into a game of celebrity heads. Nearly every ingénue in the world is being considered for the role of cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher‘s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (she was played by Noomi Rapace in the Swedish […]
Continue readingDaniel Craig cast in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
July 28, 2010 0 Comments
Daniel Craig has been cast in the lead (although not title) role in David Fincher‘s upcoming American remake of the Swedish film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. As first reported by Deadline (and later confirmed by Sony Pictures) Craig will star as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkivst. Fincher has also confirmed that his remake will […]
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