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The US Trailer For The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Is Intense, Prude

Director: 
David Fincher
Cast: 
Rooney Mara
Daniel Craig
Stellan Skarsgard
Robin Wright

Over the weekend a bootleg copy of the international redband trailer for David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo hit the web sending the internet dwelling world in to a fervor. Was it planted by Sony? Is this subversive marketing to fit with the book trilogy's themes? Is Trent Reznor turning in to a relevant musical force again? Wait, is that side boob? Yes, yes it is. It's always nice to be reminded how not every country has ridiculously uptight rules when it comes to sex and nudity and Google searches.  I mean look at the international poster, visible pierced nipples. *waits for Brinks truck*

As for the US version of the trailer, which similarly features Trent Reznor and Karen O's cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song", I'll have to go with "looks incredibly promising" and would like to thank Mr. Fincher for returning to the kind of suspense that has people dying instead of figuring out how to disperse money amongst rich guys that went to Harvard.

Synopsis: 
One fateful day several years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses and no evidence. Nearly forty years later, investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) reluctantly accepts the unusual and seemingly unsolvable assignment of finding out what really happened to Harriet. Genius hacker, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) is drawn into the case and the two form a fragile alliance as they dig into the sinister past of the Vangers and find out just how far they're prepared to go to protect themselves and each other.
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68th Golden Globe Nominations Are Here, Hilarious

It's that time of year when the worst of all the film awards shows announces their nominees. Yes I'm talking about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their usually mostly ridiculous nominations for the Golden Globes Awards. Don't get me wrong they do a lot of stuff right, but they also have the dumb Comedy Or Musical awards that are reserved for popularity contests instead of quality films.

This year's big winners in quantity are The King's Speech with seven nominations, while The Fighter  and The Social Network each received six and thank god they didn't give Timberlake a nod as these are the douchenozzles most likely to open that Pandora's box. Johnny Depp is cool and all, for serious, but Alice In Wonderland and The Tourist were terrible at best. As for the big nominations in the drama field they seem to be pretty right on, although I assume True Grit should be on the list, I just can't confirm that at this time. What are your thoughts on this year's nominees?

The television nominations are available at the HFPA site if you are interested but they are usually a season behind so it feels like you're looking at three years ago's nominations. I'm looking at you Temple Grandin and You Don't Know Jack. On the plus side Katey Sagal got a way overdue nomination for her stellar work on Sons Of Anarchy, unfortunately it's a Golden Globe.

BEST PICTURE: DRAMA
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

BEST PICTURE: COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are Alright
Red
The Tourist

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronosfsky, Black Swan
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David O. Russell, The Fighter

BEST ACTOR: DRAMA
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter

BEST ACTRESS: DRAMA
Halle Berry, Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST ACTRESS: COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Anette Bening, The Kids Are Alright
Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie, The Tourist
Julianne Moore, The Kids Are Alright
Emma Stone, Easy A

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Free 5 Song Sampler From Trent Reznor's The Social Network Soundtrack

With the impending release of David Fincher's The Social Network, you can expect new tidbits about the film to be coming out almost daily. Today's little bit of something is definitely one of the more exciting ones as a five song sampler from the film's soundtrack is currently being offered up as a free download. That would be the soundtrack that was done by Trent Reznor along with producer Atticus Ross.

This is what Atticus and I have been working on for the last few months. We had a great time working with David Fincher on this and the film turned out excellent - something we're very proud of. It opens in theatres Oct 1 and you should check it out.

Musically, this all came out of our secret laboratory - electronic in basis, but mostly organic sounding. Lots of experiments and emphasis on sound fraying around the edges while focusing on the proper emotional tone for the various scenes.

Regarding the purchase options, sorry about the "clunkiness" of not offering the full record digital download pre-sale (and having to visit Amazon). My agenda was to be able to offer this for the lowest possible price and this was the best way to achieve that. Amazon has been a great partner with past projects and I appreciate your understanding. - Trent Reznor, 9.16.10

Thanks to our brothers from another mother Some Kind Of Awesome you can stream all the available tracks below. To download the sampler and/or pre-order the soundtrack head over to the Null Corporation.

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Social Network by Some Kind of Awesome

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Rooney Mara Officially Cast As Lisbeth Salander For Millenium Trilogy

After ridiculous amounts of rumors and speculation, Rooney Mara has been cast in the lead role of Lisbeth Salander opposite Daniel Craig in David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The best selling novel is the first of the three part Millenium Trilogy by the late author followed by The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest. Mara won the role over a who's who of younger actresses presumably thanks to her appearance in Fincher's upcoming The Social Network. She also played the role of Nancy in the incredibly meh A Nightmare On Elm Street remake.

The deals for both Craig and Mara are said to include options for the other two films, although it is still unclear whether Fincher will return to the director's chair for those. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is currently set for a December 21, 2011 release.   [via deadline]

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The Social Network

All the components are there for this to be good, and then you get some Justin Timberlake overacting up in your face and bam, it feels like a bunch of TNT replays are in its future. The story obviously is interesting to a lot of people, even moreso than most probably realize, but there looks like a hefty bit of the bad acting here. Hopefully Fincher pulls it all together and they aren't relying on the social network crutch in all the promo material thus far based on necessity.

Synopsis: 
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
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Tobey Maguire To Play Bobby Fischer In Pawn Sacrifice

Deadline is reporting that Tobey Maguire will star in the upcoming Bobby Fischer biopic Pawn Sacrifice.  The film will be directed by the awesome David Fincher based on a script by Steven Knight, who wrote Eastern Promises and will also be writing the script for the upcoming Robert Kennedy biopic starring Matt Damon.  The film is set to cover Fischer's life story up until the 1972 World Chess Championships where he defeated Russian Boris Spassky in what was essentially a real life Rocky IV Cold War battle. 

I can understand the decision to only go up until that moment of his life, but I'm not the biggest fan of the decision.  For those that are unfamiliar, calling Bobby Fischer quirky would be the understatement of the millenium.  Along with his ascension in the chess ranks came an insatiable ego, paranoia, and all the other fun stuff that happens with the cliched "troubled genius".  In a lot of ways you could say everything went downhill after the 1972 Championships eventually leading to a time where Fischer is living oversees as an anti-semitic and anti-American fugitive from the United States, which in turn led to him famously celebrating the 9/11 attacks as "what goes around comes around".

Up until his death in 2008 Fischer continued to live his life in seclusion while unrelenting on his hatred towards the United States.  It always seemed to me that Fischer clearly had some serious mental issues that, had he been born 40 years later, would have been classified and quite possibly quelled well before his life of seclusion.  At the same time all the analysis and subsequent attempts at behavior modification could quite possibly have changed the entire course of his historic chess career.

I guess that career, which could be argued was either the cause or escape from his possible insanity, will be the only focus here, as it was in his life.  We'll keep you updated.

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