The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has announced this year’s slate of nominees for excellence in directing, and chalk another guild citation up for David Fincher, who somehow got in for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Also nominated was Woody Allen for “Midnight in Paris,” while Steven Spielberg and Tate Taylor were snubbed for Best Picture contenders “War Horse” and “The Help,” respectively.
David Fincher, Woody Allen make the cut for DGA
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:07 am · January 9th, 2012
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Round-up: indieWIRE survey plants 'Tree of Life' at the top
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · December 21st, 2011
Also: Brad Bird’s winter playlist and Kim Jong-il on film
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Oscarweb Round-up: Trying to get a bead on Best Supporting Actress
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:34 am · November 25th, 2011
In today’s round-up, the Best Supporting Actress category gets a little scrutiny, the makeup of “Super8” gets some love and scrennwriter John Logan talks “Hugo.”
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David Fincher plays it cool with Academy on 'Dragon Tattoo'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:44 pm · November 21st, 2011
David Fincher is adamant that his remake of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is not an Academy movie — but is he merely employing reverse psychology on Oscar voters?
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Oscarweb Round-up: Too much anal rape for Oscar?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:10 am · November 15th, 2011
After avoiding it scrupulously for months, as is my custom, I was finally faced with the trailer for David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” when I paid good money to see “Immortals” last night. (More on that later.) Though the film looks as dourly impressive as I’d expect, any number of reasons why […]
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Oscarweb Round-up: How about cutting the double-dippers a break?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:04 am · October 18th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Mark Harris points out a few ridiculous stipulations in Oscar’s rulebook that are frequently singled out, David Fincher talks about Scarlett Johansson’s audition for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and why he didn’t cast her and Beck is remixing…Philip Glass?
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Razor blade 'Dragon Tattoo' with Reznor and Ross accompaniment
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:28 am · October 4th, 2011
David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” continues to roll out the marketing machinery via non-traditional routes. The latest to drop is a video featuring the making of a razor blade metal poster for the film with a bit of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ score to boot.
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David Fincher: Lisbeth Salander is 'refuse'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 1:27 pm · September 30th, 2011
Those hoping that David Fincher’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” will give us a more well-rounded Lisbeth Salander than we saw in the original Swedish films will be encouraged by his intriguing description of the character to Empire magazine.
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Sony drops new, extended trailer for David Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:41 pm · September 21st, 2011
Sony Pictures has debuted a brand new, extended trailer for David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” It comes on the heels of a six-minute trailer/sizzle reel that played for press last week.
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