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Fight Club writer Jim Uhls has been tapped to write Trent Reznor ’s HBO/BBC Worldwide Productions miniseries  Year Zero . Based on the 2007 album by Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails , the concept recording criticizes the U.S. government -- specifically the Bush years -- and presents a dystopian vision of the year 2022. Reznor has already adapted the album into an alternate reality game. Reznor most recently picked up the Academy Award for penning the original score, with Atticus Ross, to Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network . He also composed the score for Sorkin’s upcoming adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo . The epic sci-fi miniseries is a co-production of HBO and BBC Worldwide Productions. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Last week we brought you the Red-Band trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , today we have the Green-Band official trailer for the film. Another treat we have in store for you is the first international poster for the film. he film stars Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgård, Embeth Davidtz, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Julian Sands . The film is the second film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. The first film was the 2009 Swedish-language adaptation. The upcoming film is written by Steven Zaillian and directed by David Fincher. The film is scheduled to be released on December 21, 2011. Watch the trailer after the Jump.. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Slashfilms

David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is online now. Watch it while it's still online. I am sure this Red Band trailer will be getting pulled in the near future. It's defiantly not the best but atleast this will hold us over until June 2nd when the trailer hits the U.S. The film stars Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgård, Embeth Davidtz, Robin Wright, Christopher Plummer, Joely Richardson, Goran Visnjic and Julian Sands . The film is the second film based on the Swedish novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson . The first film was the 2009 Swedish-language adaptation. The upcoming film is written by Steven Zaillian and directed by David Fincher. The film is scheduled to be released on December 21, 2011. Watch the trailer after the Jump... Please Leave A Comment-

What has happened with Sony Pictures' plans to mount an exciting new biopic of Cleopatra , with Angelina Jolie attached as the Egyptian queen, based on Stacy Schiff's bestselling book Cleopatra: A Life ? I'm told the director conversation right now is with David Fincher , who just got a Best Director Oscar nomination working with Cleopatra producer Scott Rudin, and who is working with Rudin on the Stieg Larsson novel adaptation The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , also at Sony Pictures. I spoke to James Cameron in December and he let me know that he was not doing the film. until 20th Century Fox stepped up and got him to commit instead to two Avatar sequels. After that, speculation centered around Paul Greengrass, who wound up instead directing his own script, Memphis, about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., for Universal, also with Rudin producing. It's not surprising that the top directors in town are after this gig. As Rudin has described it, this is t

It's Another Tuesday, so kids you know what that means. DVD Tuesday. We got all the information on the DVD's that were released today. Let's hope this information help's you to decide what movie to Rent or Buy. Due Date Director Todd Phillips re-teams with his break-out Hangover star Zach Galifianakis for this road movie concerning a soon-to-be father (played by Robert Downey Jr.) and his cross-country trip to make it back in time for his baby's birth -- with the only roadblock being the dubious passenger (Galifianakis) who's along for the ride. Michelle Monaghan and Jamie Foxx co-star in the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures production. Megamind -Comes Out On Friday 2/25/2011 Notorious Metro City villian Megamind (voice of Will Ferrell) becomes an unlikely savior to the troubled metropolis after defeating beloved do-gooder Metro Man (voice of Brad Pitt) and creating a new opponent who refuses to play by the rules. Megamind was only an infant when his p

Charlize Theron has inked a deal to star in " Prometheus " for Twentieth Century Fox. Theron joins previously-announced cast of Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender . Ridley Scott will direct and produce the project along with David Giler, Walter Hill and Tony Scott. Project was originally billed as an untitled "Aliens" prequel until Fox named the project "Prometheus" in January. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Variety

The Alien prequel is dead and a new Ridley Scott project has been reborn. Fox has announced that instead of making a much-talked about Alien movie, the project has been reconfigured as an original sci-fi movie, titled Prometheus , with Scott still at the helm and with Noomi Rapace to star. Showing how serious it is about the movie, Fox has set a March 9, 2012 release date. Damon Lindelof is working together with Scott on the new script, which was originally written by Jon Spaihts and based on an idea by Scott. It was under Lindelof that the project morphed into something more original. “While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place,” said Scott in a statement. “The keen fan will recognize strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative. I couldn't be more pleased to have found the s

Christopher Nolan is looking at some of Hollywood's leading actresses -- as well as a few emerging talents -- for major female roles in The Dark Knight Rises , his next Batman film. Sources tell Heat Vision that Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Biel are due to test for roles in the Warner Bros. superhero tentpole in the next two weeks. Also testing are relative newcomers Kate Mara and Charlotte Riley . Hot British actress Gemma Arterton has also scheduled to test but, Arterton just landed the female lead in Paramount's Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and might now have scheduling issues. Dark Knight Rises needs to fill two big female roles, a villain and a love interest. Sources say one character is Talia , the daughter of villain Ra's Al Ghul , who was portrayed by Liam Neeson in Nolan's first Gotham-set crime pic Batman Begins. In the comic books, Talia is both Batman's lover and antagonist, ultimately siring his alter ego Bruce Wayne's

Bond Is Back MGM is announcing that " BOND 23 " is set to go into production in late 2011 and today announced that the 23rd James Bond film will have a worldwide release on November 9, 2012 .  Daniel Craig will be returning as the legendary British secret agent, with Sam Mendes directing a screenplay written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan. That script is being kept under wraps but the story begins after Quantum Of Solace leaves off. The reason for the 007 delay is this: Broccoli and Wilson had been in pre-production on Bond #23 for release in 2011 but then it took almost a year for MGM's future to sort itself out what with the failed auction sale of the studio, then the pre-packaged bankruptcy getting approval, and eventually Spyglass taking over studio filmmaking. Meanwhile star Daniel Craig filled in the time with various film commitments which he had to finish. The actor began work on the Hollywood remake of the Swedish original The Girl With The Drag

"Pump-gun Ronnie" Making His Way To The USA Sony has bought the English-language remake rights to Austrian helmer Benjamin Heisenberg's " The Robber ." Based on author Martin Prinz's source tome, " Der Rauber " tells the real-life story of marathon runner Johann Rettenberger, known as " Pump-gun Ronnie ," who made a hobby of robbing banks. The Austrian-German thriller, which unspooled in competition at this year's Berlin Film Festival, had its German bow in March. This time last year, Sony and Scott Rudin snapped up remake rights to Swedish-language hit "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." The David Fincher-helmed adaptation is currently lensing in Sweden. Laura Ziskin will serve as producer on "The Robber" retread. Sony has yet to announce a director. Watch the Austrian trailer after the Jump.. Here is a description of the book from it's publisher: In the 1980s the bank-robber Johann Rettenberger

The Dead Shall Rise When They Hear Dollar Signs Michael Jackson never graced Forbes’ annual Celebrity 100 list during his life. In death, the King of Pop earned more in the past year than any star on that list, apart from Oprah Winfrey. Jackson not only took the No.1 spot on our 10th annual ranking of the Top-Earning Dead Celebrities , with gross earnings of $275 million, he out-earned the other 12 deceased stars on the list combined. Still more impressive: His estate's 12-month haul was greater than the pooled earnings of this year’s two biggest living acts, U2 and AC/DC. Jackson’s posthumous earnings come from his stake in the lucrative Sony/ATV catalog, the hit Sony ( SNE - news - people ) film This Is It and renewed fan interest in music, videos and all things Michael Jackson. “The death of Michael Jackson really put a focus on--crassly, quite frankly--what someone’s worth when they’re deceased,” says David Reeder, vice president of Corbis' GreenLight, which manages t

Ridley Scott Favors Noomi Rapace For Lead Role 20th Century Fox and director Ridley Scott have just about completed meetings with actresses to find the Ripley-like heroine for the 3D Alien prequel . I'm told that, so far, Scott's favorite is The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace . The other names being whispered range from Carey Mulligan to Abbie Cornish, Natalie Portman and Tron: Legacy star Olivia Wilde , the latter of whom met this week. Deadline revealed early this month that Rapace -- who got the female lead in Sherlock Holmes 2 -- was a possibility for Alien. Now, the studio will be heavily involved in the ultimate decision, and I'm told that Rapace's English is a consideration. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

Michael Nyqvist To Play Bad Boy In Mission: Impossible 4 Michael Nyqvist , who played journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the Swedish thriller " The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo " and its sequels, will play one of the lead villains in Paramount's " Mission: Impossible 4 ." The movie, being directed by Brad Bird, has slowly been pulling together its cast, with new faces Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Vladimir Mashkov joining Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg in the action movie. J.J. Abrams, who is producing with Cruise and Paula Wagner, worked on the story with scribes Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, who have written the screenplay. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Sherlock Holmes 2 To Have A Dragon Tattooed Girl Noomi Rapace , the Swedish star of " The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ," has booked her first English-language role: the plum part of the female lead in Warner Bros.'s " Sherlock Holmes 2 ." The sequel reunites most of the team from the original: Robert Downey Jr . as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. Watson. Guy Ritchie is back as director while Joel Silver, Susan Downey, Lionel Wigram and Dan Lin return as producers. The logline is being kept under wraps, although it is known Holmes will face off against Moriarty. Also making an appearance will be Holmes' brother, Mycroft. Rapace's role is shrouded in mystery although sources say the character may be a French Gypsy. It is unclear if the role is romantic in nature. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Daniel Craig To Star In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Daniel Craig has closed his deal to play journalist Mikael Blomkvist in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , a deal which factors in options for two sequels based on The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest. The novels comprise the bestselling trilogy by late Stieg Larsson. Deadline told you first about the Craig talks, which back in June were hardly a certainty, because there were so many hurdles to jump. I'm told that with a whole lot of juggling between three studios, Craig will be able to make the movies. Essentially, he will begin work on the first film in Sweden, as soon as he removes his cowboy hat from shooting Cowboys and Aliens in the early fall. Scheduling was coordinated between Dragon Tattoo-maker Sony Pictures Entertainment, DreamWorks partners Stacey Snider and Steven Spielberg--who were flexible on the Cowboys and Aliens schedule--and James Bond rights holders Barbara Brocc

David Fincher Next Film To Be "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" It was confirmed a while ago that David Fincher would direct  " The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo " is definitely Fincher's next film. Already adapted into an award-winning Swedish language trilogy , the English-language version is being produced by Scott Rudin at Sony with Steve Zaillian ("Schindler's List," "American Gangster," the original draft of "Moneyball") currently writing the script. As we previously reported, Carey Mulligan was on the studio wishlist for the lead role of Lisbeth Salander but that seems to be as far as it's gotten. As Mulligan herself confirmed, she's not received any official calls regarding the role and we're not surprised considering the script isn't finished. From what we hear, Fincher wants an unknown for the lead role which would prove to be an interesting gamble for such a high profile project (not to mention a maj

David Fincher To Direct The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo The books are still flying out of the bookstores, and the Swedish film trilogy has just begun its UK release. But lest we forget, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, has also caught Hollywood's attention. After some difficult rights negotiations with the still-in-flux Larsson estate, Sony inked a deal for the English-language versions late last year, with Scott Rudin producing and Steve Zaillian having a crack at the first screenplay. And now, according to NY Magazine's Vulture , David Fincher is circling the project. Also mentioned in Vulture's piece, connected to the heroine role of snarky Asperger's hacker genius Lisbeth Salander is current hot ticket Carey Mulligan, said to be top of the producers' wish list (although it's pointed out that practically every young actress in Hollywood and

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo UK Trailer I Reported about a week ago about about the film being released in the UK, and now we know that Sony Pictures is developing a US version of the Novel and film. the original Swedish version of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO a.k.a Män som hatar kvinnor (strangely enough translated into ‘Men Who Hate Women’), will hit our theaters in select cities this Spring. Here is the UK Trailer for the film. The story, for those of you who don't read, focuses on two characters. Investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) has been convicted of libel and, his career in ruins, accepts an offer from a wealthy recluse to write a family history. Researcher and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) agrees to help him - but her troubled past means that she has more serious problems than merely sorting through family records. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is out on March 12 here in the UK, followed by The Girl Who Played With Fire on

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Film Coming Soon If you've read a book in the last year, chances are it was one of Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy , the insanely popular series of Swedish crime novels that has taken the world by storm. Well, the first of the books has been adapted for the screen, and now The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has a new poster to premiere right here. The story, for those of you who don't read, focuses on two characters. Investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) has been convicted of libel and, his career in ruins, accepts an offer from a wealthy recluse to write a family history. Researcher and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) agrees to help him - but her troubled past means that she has more serious problems than merely sorting through family records. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is out on March 12 here in the UK, followed by The Girl Who Played With Fire on September 10 and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet'