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 David Fincher‘s The Girl With Dragon Tattoo all got nominated today.
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. Check it out.
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 trying to control the spread (Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet) to the head of the Center for Disease Control (Laurence Fishburne) to the doctors working on curing it (Jennifer Ehle), to those who wish to profit from it (Jude Law). It’s a dense script, but made simple, and we talked about the writing process on the film. We also talked briefly about his work on David Fincher‘s upcoming 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Check it out..
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 on becoming the British Prime Minister. Netflix is in the lead to distribute the show because they’ve supposedly commited to a two year, twenty-six episode deal. Based on the novel by Michael Dobbs, the book was previously turned into a British mini-series.
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…
