First off, David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opened last night in 2,914 runs and took home at least $1.6 million and earned an A CinemaScore from audiences in attendance. This is exactly what Columbia was hoping to achieve when they decided to open a day early, and as a fan of the film I want to see it succeed. In fact, it’s showing at the Cinerama here in Seattle where I will definitely be heading myself to contribute to its overall box-office tally. Can’t wait to see that opening sequence on the massive Cinerama big screen.
In other Girl with the Dragon Tattoo news, Jeff Wells stumbled on this quote from extra Donald Josephson talking about title star Rooney Mara and what he overheard concerning her approach to playing Lisbeth Salander as compared to Noomi Rapace‘s performance in the original Swedish adaptations:
“The most fun was to keep up with Rooney Mara in the green room, where the actors wait between shots…and [to] hear her anxiety over whether she would be better than Noomi Rapace. She had lots of those ‘mirror mirror on the wall’ moments in there. Mara asked her assistant all the time, ‘Do we not do better when we did this scene? Do I not look better than her? Am I not better? Am I not young? Are not I cool?’ And the assistant just replied, ‘Yes, yes, yes! You’re the best, you’re the best!'”
That is, of course, the crude Google translated version, you can find the original courtesy Sweden’s “Dagens Nyheter” here.
And finally, here’s a 21-minute interview with Fincher courtesy of MTV:
Moving along to the obligatory sequel news, but since it is for a franchise I enjoy I am going to report on it, Heat Vision spoke with Vin Diesel who says we should expect not only Fast and the Furious 6 in 2013, but that he and director Justin Lin realized they would need a seventh film to tell the full story.
“With the success of this last one, and the inclusion of so many characters, and the broadening of scope, when we were sitting down to figure out what would fit into the real estate of number six, we didn’t have enough space,” Diesel told the trade. “We have to pay off this story, we have to service all of these character relationships, and when we started mapping all that out it just went beyond 110 pages, The studio said, ‘You can’t fit all that story in one damn movie!'”
So, it sounds like we will get two, which I’m sure Universal is happy about considering the last one made over $626 million worldwide and the franchise has now made just shy of $700 million domestically before taking international ticket sales into account. Fast Six is already slated for a May 24, 2013 release and while Diesel did not reveal details on whether the two movies would be two-parters or two standalone movies I think it’s safe to assume Universal would likely set a May 2014 release for the seventh feature.
Finally, also in sequel news, director J.J. Abrams spoke with MTV about Star Trek 2 and revealed the film will be shot in 2D, then converted to 3D and he will possibly be shooting some scenes in IMAX, a la the recent release of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on which Abrams served as a producer.
Abrams was quoted saying, “We’re shooting on film, 2D, and then we’ll do a good high-end conversion like the Harry Potter movie and all that. Luckily, with our release date now we have the months needed to do it right because if you rush it, it never looks good. We were talking about [shooting in IMAX] and I would love to do it. IMAX is my favorite format; I’m a huge fan.”
Star Trek 2 will be one of Summer 2013’s most anticipated features as it will arrive in theaters on May 17, 2013.
