Sony is finally moving forward on a The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel. The catch is, it won't bring back Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, or David Fincher.
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With every passing month the likelihood of Sony producing another film based on Stieg Larsson's series of Dragon Tattoo books seems to shrink. The David Fincher-directed adaptation of Larsson's first book in the series was released in December 2011, and since then we've heard about a screenplay being written for The Girl Who Played With Fire,…
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David Fincher explains what killed 20000 Leagues, and expresses hope for the Dragon Tattoo sequel The Girl Who Played With Fire.
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The recent flurry of activity surrounding Gone Girl seems like a pretty good indication of where David Fincher's attention is focused right now. But that leaves the question of what's going on with all those other projects he had brewing as his possible follow-up to 2011's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. That includes the…
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Stay classy, New York City? Director Adam McKay reveals that Anchorman: The Legend Continues will take the Channel 4 News Team to the Big Apple. Also after the jump: Jason Clarke comments very briefly about his Apes character Rooney Mara "definitely" wants to do the Dragon Tattoo sequel Super Troopers 2 will "hopefully" shoot sometime…
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Tommy Wirkola's first US film, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, was no critical fave, but it has done over $100m worldwide so far. Now Wirkola is heading back to Norway to make a sequel to his breakout film, Dead Snow. The new one is Dead Snow: War of the Dead, which will follow "the sole survivor…
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Because it was based on the first of a trilogy of books, David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was inspiring sequel talk even before the first film started shooting. Yet over a year since the film's theatrical release, Sony's made surprisingly little progress on The Girl Who Played With Fire. Some wondered if…
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Could Sean Connery return to the Bond franchise? Believe it or not, it almost happened a third time. Also after the jump: The Muppets shoots this winter, Bret McKenzie returns to write more songs Wreck-It Ralph director Rich Moore has ideas for a sequel Robert Zemeckis isn't planning a Roger Rabbit sequel Daniel Craig says Dragon…
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Let's say you're a Sony film exec. You've had a long partnership with Adam Sandler, who makes movies that critics hate, but audiences continue to see. Everyone hated Jack and Jill, right? But at just about $150m worldwide gross against a $79m production budget, it could be doing a lot worse, especially for something labeled…
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There's so much in this edition of Sequel Bits it's insane. Let's get going. After the jump read about the following: David Fincher is still figuring out how to make The Girl Who Played With Fire. Ron Perlman still has no idea when Hellboy 3 might happen. A new image from Paranormal Activity 4 has…
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The sequel news today involves from pretty big franchises, or some high-profile ones at least. After the break read about the following: One Expendables film was enough for Chuck Norris, David Koepp is no longer working on a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire remains in development, but David…
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CinemaCon has come to a close, and I've returned from Las Vegas to find a ton of film sequel news bits. After the jump you'll see a round up of all the latest, including: New photos from G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Expendables 2 Benedict Cumberbatch explains how he auditioned for Star Trek 2 on his…
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Here's a minor update to Sony's continuing plans to adapt Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. US box office is low, if holding relatively steady, for David Fincher's version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. As the movie has opened outside the US, foreign returns have been low, too. Foreign box office has become the salvation…
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Over the last couple weeks, one studio announcement has been conspicuously absent. With the launch of most major film franchises -- that is, the opening of a film that is envisioned as a gateway to more of the same -- it doesn't take long at all for studios to greenlight the second entry. With films…
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We're covering a few sequels in very different stages of the development process today -- one that's gearing up to begin shooting soon, another that's yet to be greenlit, and two more that've been in the works for what feels like forever. After the jump: Bill Murray literally shreds the latest Ghostbusters 3 script to pieces…
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The last time we checked in on the Sony take on Cleopatra, which Scott Rudin is producing as a possible Angelina Jolie star vehicle based on Stacy Schiff's biography Cleopatra: A Life, James Cameron wasn't going to make the film because of his commitment to Avatar 2, and Paul Greengrass was looking like a possible…
Read MoreThis Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. WINTER'S BONE Winter's Bone is a tense, dreary affair, consisting almost exclusively of characters devoid of vitality or a sense of humor.…
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