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Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: Don’t Take The Kids!
Daniel Craig plays investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the latest Hollywood adaptation of Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s best-selling thriller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The book sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, and, in 2009, was made into a Swedish film.
The movie has already had its global premiere in London.
Craig, 43, is stressing that this is a grown-up flick (it has an R rating), which pulls no punches. “This is one where you pay the babysitter,” he told reporters. “Don’t take the kids.”
But the James Bond hunk has also insisted that the graphic scenes were true to the blockbuster novel’s theme of violence against women. Craig, who normally likes to work out to maintain his finely honed physique, had to skip the gym and put on a little weight for the role, but says he didn’t mind!
Directed by David Fincher, the story follows Blomkvist as he retreats to an isolated northern Swedish island, where he becomes drawn into researching the killing of a young girl some four decades previously.
He is thrown together with Lisbeth Slander, a tattooed, loner punk character played by Ronney Mara, and whose job is as an investigator at a high-tech security company.
Mara, 26, who dazzled and looked gorgeous at the premiere, told journalists: “I think everyone can relate to that feeling of being outcast or misunderstood at some point in their life.”
This adaptation is the latest in a string of Scandinavian crime fiction doing incredibly well in the English speaking world.
See it and decide for yourself! The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is in theaters from December 21st
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Tagged adaptation, book, crime, drama, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, remake, Stieg Larsson, thriller
“Twilight: Breaking Dawn” Has Fifth Best Box Office Weekend Ever
It might have received mixed reviews, and may not be breaking box office records, exactly, but Twilight: Breaking Dawn, the penultimate chapter in the incredibly popular franchise, has posted this year’s second highest weekend total in the box office, and the fifth highest of all time.
The movie took an estimated nearly $140m from more than 4,000 locations. In comparison, the next best grossing challenging, Happy Feet 2, took just over $22m.
It seems hard to believe that it was in this week three years ago that Twilight caught many people off their guard with a box office debut which took nearly $70m. Within two months, the movie had netted well over $190m in US ticket sales.
And if you were not a teenaged girl, or perhaps didn’t pay attention to the news coming out of 2008’s Comic Con, it was easy to feel that this story of teen-vamp-love had come out of nowhere to transform the pop culture universe.
There’s still time to catch the first part of this two-part romantic fantasy, directed by Bill Condon and based on Stephenie Meyer’s novel, Breaking Dawn. Together, the two parts form the fourth and final installments of the series, with Part 2 due for release this time next year.
Wyck Godfrey and Karen Rosenfelt executive produced, and the screenplay was written by Meyer alongside Melissa Rosenberg, who penned the first three movies. All three main cast members, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner, reprise their roles for this picture.
So catch it while you still can – and be bewitched!
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Tagged adaptation, book, breaking dawn, Robert Pattinson, sequel, series, Twightlight, vampires
New End To Dickens Classic From “One Day” Writer
British author David Nicholls, who wrote the hit novel One Day, which was made into a movie starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, has revealed that he has penned a new ending to the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations, for a thriller movie version of this much-loved tale.
With Mike Newell in the director’s chair, Great Expectations is currently being shot in England, with Helena Bonham Carter starring as Miss Havisham and Ralph Fiennes taking the role of Magwitch.
Other cast members include Jeremy Irvine as Pip, Robbie Coltrane as Mr Jaggers, Sally Hawkins as Mrs Joe, and David Walliams as Uncle Pumblechook.
The new project, in theaters next year, will allow a glimpse of Miss Havisham’s wedding, which has not been shown in previous film versions, including David Lean’s 1946 masterpiece.
Nicholls’ script is described as fast-moving, with plenty of twists and turns, creating a thriller of a movie. And, of course, converting 500-odd pages of the nineteenth century novel into a film lasting two hours invariably meant some things had to be left out.
The author told the BBC that he had given the famous story a fresh ending. Dickens himself wrote a couple of different endings, one bleak, the other sentimental and romantic. Nicholls has told the BBC the ending he has come up with is “somewhere in between the two.” Without being unfaithful to the text, it apparently “draws on the book’s events while taking them in a slightly different direction.”
Next year see the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.
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Tagged adaptation, book, David Nichols, Great Expectations, Ralph Fiennes
Movies Based On Jane Austen And Her Novels
Must-see movies for all Jane Austen fans.
1. Lost in Austen (2008)
Modern-day Amanda Price (Jemima Rooper), born and bred in Hammersmith, is obsessed with Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. When Elizabeth Bennett shows up in her bathroom, Amanda walks through a secret door and finds herself atNetherfieldPark, right at the beginning of the novel. Amanda works against odds to ensure the plot develops as it’s supposed to, but she finds herself so immersed in the lives of these characters that there is no chance of extracting herself. ThisBBC miniseries is surprisingly witty, heart-wrenching, and will surely win the approval of any true Jane Austen fan.
2. The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Based on a novel of the same name, five women and one man form a book club in which they discuss one Austen novel at each meeting. The five women are based off the five heroines of the novels, most notably with Prudie (Emily Blunt) mirroring Persuasion’s Anne Elliot. While perhaps not as riveting as Lost in Austen, the movie grossed $3.5 million in theUSA. Also starring Amy Brennan as Sylvia (mirrored after Fanny Price), and Hugh Darcy as uncultured and seemingly clueless sixth member.
3. Clueless (1995)
This modern hit loosely based on Jane Austen’s novel Emma has Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz, a classic “dumb blonde” whose matchmaking skills take a turn for the worse when her own feelings get involved. With Jeeps instead of carriages and dances instead of balls,Cher is still as witty and loveable as Emma Woodhouse. Catch this all-star cast, which includes Brittany Murphy and Paul Rudd, in this iconic teenage comedy that Jane Austen would surely have loved.
4. Becoming Jane (2007)
Unarguably the most like an Austen novel, this film has Anne Hathaway as Jane herself and James McAvoy as her thwarted love interest, Tom Lefroy. Jane wishes to make her living through writing—an endeavor which Tom, and Jane’s father support. However, while Tom loves Jane’s independence he is not able to marry her without throwing his family into destitution, given that Jane has no dowry. Jane uses the events of her own life as inspiration as she pens Pride and Prejudice—the novel she is ultimately best known for. Be sure to have the tissue box handy for this one.
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Tagged adaptation, becoming jane, Clueless, Jane Austen, Lost in Austen, novel, period, romance