David Fincher Reviews, Interviews & More

One would think that minimalist author Chuck Palahniuk’s novels would have generated more film adaptations by this point—after all, his first novel become David Fincher’s beloved cult film Fight Club, most of his works lean towards the cinematic, and are packed tight with tons of flimsy pseudo-philosophic morsels that come off as brilliant when you’re 17 years...

David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, despite being based upon both a hit series of novels and a popular foreign film series, didn’t exactly set the box office on fire when it was released, becoming a mild to moderate success and generally considered to be one of Fincher’s lesser efforts.  That said, a sequel, The Girl Who Played with Fire,...

House of Cards is almost here. It's the new project from David Fincher (and the studio Media Rights Capital), which stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. It looks like the whole season will be made live this Friday, and we can't wait to see if Netflix's grand experiment works. Will we find a whole new way to look at television? All evidence suggests that the entire TV...

David Fincher has been known to attach himself to projects, so it's hard to know what to make of today's news. Fincher is currently in talks to helm an adaptation of Gone Girl for Twentieth Century Fox. Which means it may not happen, but it could.

Is Netflix the new HBO? It could be. The home video rental agency that destroyed Blockbuster has been pursuing online shows as part of its Netflix Instant lineup. First there was Lilyhammer, which didn't get much traction, but in February we're getting House of Cards from the studio Media Rights Capital, which stars Kevin Spacey and Robin...

David Fincher fans who were awaiting the director’s big-scale adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, you may want to stop holding your breath for just a bit—sadly for you, the film has now been put on hiatus by Disney.  But hey, if it ever does get made, Brad Pitt will likely star in it… that’s something, right?

We tend to hate on Hollywood studios because of the movie projects they choose to fund (Transformers 4, anyone?). So much of typical Hollywood product tends to be huge, expensive spectacles with little-to-no story, heavy special effects and poor acting. So, we at ScreenCrave have decided to help jump behind the indie film. Every week we'll be bring you the Indie Fundraiser...

This week’s DVD and Blu-ray releases are all about a certain doctor/professor/adventurer whose adventures have kept us entertained for over three decades, and made for at least two good movies. There’s also the surprisingly great The Cabin in the Woods, and the Katy Perry movie, and Criterion’s got a couple winners coming as well. Check it out.

It’s still a bit of a touchy subject for some, but do you remember how you felt about Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace? How about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? The Godfather Part III? Well, you may not be surprised to know these and many more have been ranked in the Top 50 most disappointing movies...

Well, it seems any hopes of David Fincher directing the upcoming remake of Cleopatra (set to star Angelina Jolie as the Egyptian queen) have now been dashed after reports that talks between Sony and the filmmaker – who had been circling the project for months – have now broken off.

If you enjoyed David Fincher’s 2011 adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo… well, we’ve got some good news, some mediocre news, and some bad news concerning the follow-up film, The Girl Who Played With Fire, in which the titular character, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), is framed for the murder of two journalists.  Read ‘em and weep below.

For those who like playing Oscar pools, DGA nominations tend to be a good harbinger for the actual Oscar nominations. So it's worth noting what made the cut: Michel Hazanavicius's The Artist, Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Alexander Payne's The Descendants, and...

Though the movie is due out momentarily, the press conference for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo just happened, and David Fincher was asked about his likelihood of doing the second two books in the Stieg Larson Millennium trilogy. His response was that if this film is successful, they'll make the two sequels back-to-back.

It's a big day for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo news. Today the embargo broke, and non-David Denby types can review the picture willy-nilly. We'll have our review closer to release, but along with that, Sony has announced that David Fincher's latest opus will be hitting screens Tuesday, December 20 at 7 pm, instead of its scheduled December 21 opening.

For those of you still unsure as to whether or not David Fincher’s English-language remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is worth seeing later this month, Fincher just about removed all reasons for doubt today by releasing an excellent eight-minute trailer for the film!

David Fincher now believes in viral marketing! The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which will be hitting theaters just in time for Christmas, first had a bootleg trailer that sold Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in the film with the sort of fast cutting one expects of Fincher. Now they've released an extended trailer (not intended for theaters) that sets up the entire film....

When you craft a film about the next pandemic to rip across the world, you’ve got to do your research, and Scott Z. Burns was very invested in finding out the realities of Contagion. Working with Steven Soderbergh for his fourth time, the two weave a portrait of how disease changes peoples lives, from the victims (Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow) to the people dealing...

So what do you do after directing the Oscar-winning The Social Network, and wrap up your American version remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo?  If you’re David Fincher, you may well direct Angelina Jolie in a Cleopatra biopic.

In a bold move for the rental outfit Netflix, their company is now in the lead to pick up the series House of Cards, according to Deadline Hollywood. The show is set to be produced by David Fincher and Kevin Spacey, with Fincher helming the pilot and with Spacey in the lead role of a political mastermind with his eye...

Continuing on his awards sweep, David Fincher took home the honor in the Best Director category at the 68th Annual Golden Globes. Fincher came well prepared with a written speech where he discussed how the script for The Social Network was brought to him by producer Scott Rudin, and how he had no idea how successful it would become. See who he beat out...