The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Blu-ray Review: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2011), Different Language, Same Noise

After The Girl Who Played With Fire, I'd decided that I was effectively done with super hacker/kickboxer/possible autistic Lisbeth Salander. There was no going back: the character felt too much like a cartoon, a multi-purpose tool to plug into a pulp thriller, born of and motivated by the abuses afflicted upon her in a world where only a lone, non-traditionally hunky reporter was not culpable in the many murder-rape-murder goings on throughout. That movie was terrible and made me hate the first move retroactively. Let's chalk this up to my inability to pass up anything from David Fincher, along with my admiration for just about everyone assembled here for a return to the increasingly implausible world conjured up by the late Stieg Larsson. But enough...

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Jameson Empire Awards 2012 Winners!

Plus: The Awards minute-by-minute blog Ah, spring. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and flocks of beautiful people are pitching up on the red carpet outside a swanky hotel in London. It can only mean one thing: its time for the Jameson Empire Awards 2012 . The big winner of the night was Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , which took home Best Thriller, Best Actor (for Gary Oldman) and Best British Film. The Best Film of the year went to Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part Two , which also won Best Director for David Yates, while Olivia Colman took Best Actress for her astonishing turn in Tyrannosaur . The Awards were voted for by the Empire reader, and it's fair to say that they reflect a wide-ranging taste. Best Comedy went to homegrown British juggernaut The Inbetweeners , while Best Horror went to the deeply disturbing Kill List . The Americans got a look-in (Read More)

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo follow-ups in trouble?

MGM reports that it has made a modest loss on David Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and seek better terms for potential sequels... Despite taking in excess of $230 million at the global box office on a budget of around $90 million, David Finchers adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo still appears to have performed, financially, below expectations, and at this point has made MGM a modest loss. Of course it has yet to hit DVD and Blu-ray (as well as umpteen other ways it'll rake back cash), so it'll certainly end up in profit. But the financial reporting system means that, on paper at the moment, the film has red ink by its name. And this might not bode well for the planned films of the next two books in the series, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest. MGM say that they still want to go ahead with the sequels a (Read More)

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105 movie sequels currently in the works

Hollywood loves its sequels, and we’ve got the proof here. Meet the 105 sequels at various stages of production, and a further 17 that seem to have died. Its been nearly five years since we started doing our annual round-ups of the current movie sequels that are in the works, and this year marks the longest list of all. Furthermore, what the 105 we've rounded up here doesnt include are the projects that we suspect might have been lost to development hell, which weve detailed down at the bottom. Hollywood does love its follow-ups. The projects that we do talk about here each have some chance of happening, and weve done a release date cut off of films due after October 2012 at the earliest. Thus, this summers collection of sequels &ndash including The Dark Knight Rises , Madagascar 3 , Ice Age 4 , G.I. Joe 2 , The Expendables 2 , American Pie: The Reunion , Men In (Read More)

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