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Review: Henning Mankell's Wallander: The Revenge
22 hours ago | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
As if The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Millennium Trilogy, The Killing and The Headhunters weren't enough to satisfy the recent Scandinavian films/literature craze overseas, the superb, original Swedish TV series Wallander (not to be confused with the equally popular Kenneth Branagh's BAFTA winning adaptation on BBC) finally makes a landfall in the Us, in a standalone, 90-minute film version, titled Henning Mankell's Wallander: The Revenge in theaters. As a shrewd marketing ploy, Music Box Films is releasing the entire first and second season (13 espisodes) on VOD itunes, Amazon and Vudu earlier and DVD on May 29th. The Revenge is the season 2 premiere episode.Before Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander, there was Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander. Based on an original story from immensely »
Movie Review: ‘Headhunters’
18 May 2012 6:11 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
This review was originally posted in September 2011 for Fantastic Fest. We are republishing this review due to its opening at Tivoli Theatre on May 18th.
Foreign crime novels have been all the rage. To this day, Stieg Larsson and his “Milennium Trilogy” books still stand on the New York Times Best Seller List over a year later. Yet, another interesting foreign crime writer has seen a rise to fame and is often compared to Larsson. Jo Nesbo first really made an impact with readers and the press when his book The Snowman finally saw a release here in the states this year. The writer has a penchant for crafting intriguing stories involving murder, hard-nosed detectives, and red-herrings around every page. However, it is another thrilling crime novel of Nesbo’s that will hit the big-screen first: Headhunters.
Between recruiting (headhunting) workers for top positions and buying his beautiful wife expensive jewelery, »
- Michael Haffner
FilmDistrict Acquires Dead Man Down Starring Noomi Rapace And Colin Farrell
17 May 2012 7:27 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
The Cannes Film Festival is now well underway in the South of France and amidst the glitz and glamour, there is still also a lot of business taking place. FilmDistrict, perhaps best known for being behind last year's Drive - a strong contender for the Palme, Nicolas Winding Refn walked away with Best Director - has already acquired Intrepid Pictures' horror flick Oculus this year before closing the deal for U.S. distribution rights to Dead Man Down. Deadline reports that FilmDistrict has also acquired the new film from director Niels Arden Oplev , the man behind the original Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män Som Hatar Kvinnor). Dead Man Down re-teams the director with his Dragon Tattoo leading lady as Noomi Rapace stars alongside Colin Farrell in this romantic revenge thriller set in the criminal underworld. The studio also just released the first »
DVD Review: 'ID:a'
14 May 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★☆☆ The rise of the Scandinavian crime thriller in contemporary Western culture has been nothing short of astronomic, encompassing literature (Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø), television (Wallander, The Killing, The Bridge) and, naturally, cinema (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Headhunters). Renowned Danish production company Zentropa - famed for their work with Lars von Trier - entered this highly lucrative market earlier in the year with Christian E. Christiansen amnesiac drama ID:a (2011).
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- CineVue
The Bridge: season one, episodes seven and eight
12 May 2012 3:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
A new leading candidate for the Truth Terrorist emerges amid murder and mayhem as the show enters the final straight
Spoiler Alert: This blog is for those watching The Bridge on BBC4. If you haven't seen episodes five and six, do not read on – and if you've seen further in the series, please do not leave spoilers.
Vicky Frost's episodes five and six blog
Hello everyone. No Vicky this week – she's away sourcing a woolly jumper-leather trousers ensemble for what promises to be a punishing finale recap next week. My name is James, I'll be your host for the evening, fielding your speculations, conspiracy theories and uncalled-for attacks on Charlotte Sorringer's hairpiece. My melon was well and truly twisted by these latest episodes. Five children abducted, five companies barbecued, one dead journalist and an explanation for the Truth Terrorist campaign that may just tick all the boxes and have a »
- James Donaghy
The Bridge: season one, episodes seven and eight
11 May 2012 3:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
A new leading candidate for the Truth Terrorist emerges amid murder and mayhem as the show enters the final straight
Spoiler Alert: This blog is for those watching The Bridge on BBC4. If you haven't seen episodes five and six, do not read on – and if you've seen further in the series, please do not leave spoilers.
Vicky Frost's episodes five and six blog
Hello everyone. No Vicky this week – she's away sourcing a woolly jumper-leather trousers ensemble for what promises to be a punishing finale recap next week. My name is James, I'll be your host for the evening, fielding your speculations, conspiracy theories and uncalled-for attacks on Charlotte Sorringer's hairpiece. My melon was well and truly twisted by these latest episodes. Five children abducted, five companies barbecued, one dead journalist and an explanation for the Truth Terrorist campaign that may just tick all the boxes and have a »
- James Donaghy
Sean Bean to Star in Suspense Trilogy, Devil’S Peak; Paula Patton Set for Baggage Claim; Jamie Hector Joins Blood Ties
8 May 2012 7:59 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Some casting info, including news that should make fans of Sean Bean very happy. Here it is in brief: Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) will star in the three-film adaptation of Devil's Peak, a suspense novel trilogy by South African author, Deon Meyer. Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) is set to star in Baggage Claim, a comedy adapted and directed by David Talbert from his bestselling 2003 novel. Jamie Hector (The Wire) joins the phenomenal cast of Blood Ties, which includes Mila Kunis (Black Swan) , Zoe Saldana (Colombiana) and Marion Cotillard (Inception). Hit the jump for more on each film. First up from THR comes the awesome news that Bean will star in recurring lead role, Detective Benny Griessel. Did you catch the operative word, "recurring?" As in, for at least two movies, he won't die from being shot, stabbed, beheaded, shot full of arrows (and then beheaded), pulled »
- Dave Trumbore
'Skyfall' To Explore A 'Depressed' James Bond
29 April 2012 12:12 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Istanbul — The next James Bond movie, "Skyfall," promises the usual action, exotic locations, scheming villains and beautiful women. For fans of the original novels by Ian Fleming, there's more: a journey into the troubled psyche of the iconic spy.
After all, the director of the 23rd film in the franchise, which spans half a century, is Sam Mendes, whose cinematic studies of personalities in emotional turmoil and even meltdown include "American Beauty" and "Revolutionary Road."
"You always go back to the Fleming because the character Fleming created over a number of novels was incredibly complex," Mendes said Sunday at a news conference in Istanbul, where the crew of "Skyfall" has filmed.
"Some people sometimes forget in the cliche of Bond, which is the international playboy, and someone who's always untroubled, and almost never breaks a sweat, that actually what (Fleming) created was a very conflicted character," said Mendes, who was joined by cast members, »
- AP
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Experience & DVD Launch - Report
28 April 2012 8:04 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Jake Wardle reports from the London DVD launch of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo...
The new Covent Garden site for the London Film Museum is surprisingly slight, but the surroundings are ideal. The arches and columns of this former factory add an atmosphere altogether missing from the more conventional white-walled gallery space upstairs. The website takes care to remind us that is an exhibition space, not a second museum, and this much is clear from the moment you walk in. In contrast to the diverse and prop-heavy South Bank site, this site is currently solely dedicated to prints from the Magnum Photography Agency, a selection of iconic promotional images and candid off-shoot photos of everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Charlie Chaplin, including some wonderfully surreal shots of fully-costumed extras from The Planet of the Apes walking the streets of Hollywood.
I was there for ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo »
- flickeringmyth
Headhunters—movie review
26 April 2012 9:50 PM, PDT | Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy | See recent Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy news »
I can’t remember the last time a movie surprised me as much as Headhunters: not just its story twists and turns, which are considerable, but its continual stripping of character veneer and overall audaciousness left me breathless. I haven’t read any of the growingly-popular novels by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø (whose reputation has grown in the past few years, possibly in the wake of Sweden’s Stieg Larsson), but if this is indicative of his storytelling skills, I’m impressed. The film captures our attention right away by introducing us to its highly unlikely “hero,” a smug, high-level corporate headhunter who plays to win. He’s even won...
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- Leonard Maltin
Headhunters Movie Review
23 April 2012 12:36 AM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: Headhunters Magnolia Pictures Director: Morten Tyldum Screenwriter: Lars Gudmestad, Ulf Ryberg, from Jo Nesbø’s 2008 novel Cast: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Olgaard Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 4/18/12 Opens: April 27, 2012 Bearing a resemblance to Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium Trilogy” at least so far as language family is concerned, “Headhunters” is the best Norwegian thriller to come to our shores in years and among the most exciting psychological dramas an American audience will be treated to in quite a while. The acting is outrageously good, the plot twists come to us at a furious pace, the music on the soundtrack is spot-on and perhaps [ Read More ] »
- Brian Corder
Hot Docs 2012: ‘Big Boys Gone Bananas!’; Episode Two – Fredrik Gertten Strikes Back
21 April 2012 6:54 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Big Boys Gone Bananas!
Directed by Fredrik Gertten
Sweden, 2011
Not so long ago in a country not so far, far away…
A Swedish journalist publishes a fiery polemic against a large, multi-national corporation. In response, said corporation successfully alleges fraud, effectively burying his work and blacklisting him from various media and journalistic syndications. To try and clear his name, the journalist embarks on a crusade against his own crusade, hoping to regain his own credibility, while trying to discredit the claims of his accusers.
You’ve heard of this story before. But this is not Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This is Fredrik Gertten’s Big Boys Gone Bananas!.
Director Fredrik Gertten
In 2009, Gertten, a Swedish filmmaker, made a documentary called Bananas!. The film, which has nothing to do with Woody Allen’s 1971 comedy of the same name, was about the Dole Food Company’s use of dangerous pesticides in Nicaragua, »
- Justin Li
Why Do We Love Scandi-Crime?
21 April 2012 3:03 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Here comes another… like a bus.
Slipping seamlessly into the Saturday night slot vacated by The Killing and then Borgen, comes another Nordic thriller, The Bridge.
And if you can’t decide which you prefer of the wave of fiction from those cold, beautiful parts – the Swedish offerings (Stieg Larrson’s offerings, Wallander), or the Danish smorgasbord (The Killing, Borgen, Those Who Kill) – well, in The Bridge, it seems they can’t decide either. The first episode finds a body discovered on the Oresund Bridge that links the two countries, its position on the tarmac exactly half and half in either jurisdiction, meaning a cross-border investigation on screen, and representing a co-production between the two countries off it.
Meanwhile, in cinemas, Jo Nesbo’s Headhunters – which somehow manages to be both a black comedy as well as a gruesome thriller – has seen its initial limited release in the UK extended »
- Caroline Frost
Win: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Blu-ray, We Have 3 Copies To Give Away
18 April 2012 7:49 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – the gripping, hard-edged thriller based on the first of Stieg Larsson’s suspenseful and spell-binding “Millennium” trilogy – arrives on Blu-ray™, DVD and Digital Download on April 23. This highly anticipated motion picture from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment brings together an all-star ensemble cast led by Daniel Craig (James Bond franchise), Rooney Mara (The Social Network), Golden Globe® nominee Robin Wright (1994, Best Actress, Forrest Gump), Stellan Skarsgård (Thor), Golden Globe® winner Christopher Plummer (2012, Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role, Beginners) and Joely Richardson (TV’s “Nip/Tuck”).
We have three copies of the Blu-ray to give away to our readers!
Earning $200 million in box office worldwide, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has received five Academy Award® nominations including Actress in a Leading Role (Rooney Mara), Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. The film adaptation was directed by David Fincher with »
- Matt Holmes
Exclusive Behind the Scenes Featurette for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
18 April 2012 7:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
With David Fincher’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hurtling onto DVD and Blu-ray next week we thought we’d tease a little more anticipation out of you with a little look behind the scenes of the film.
Here Daniel Craig and Fincher himself talking about the construction of the film, brick by brick in Craig’s words, and it’s interesting to line up the Hollywood remake with the original Swedish film from Niels Arden Oplev to see how the mystery unfolds in each.
Larsson’s story is necessarily tightly structured with information uncovered piece by piece until the final moments when everything becomes clear and like the two films adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In there are subtleties and more overt differences to the films, all of which add fuel to the ever burning question of the »
- Jon Lyus
Happy Birthday, Rooney Mara! Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Star Turns 27
17 April 2012 5:30 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
How would Lisbeth Salander celebrate her birthday? Maybe a new tattoo or piercing? But we're guessing Rooney Mara isn't going to go that route on her special day (however, we're not knockin' the idea). The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star is 27 today. Although Mara was featured in the epic film Social Network as the woman who inspired the whole business venture, she had her breakout performance in the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel, beating out many Hollywood stars for the lead role in David Fincher's film. The actress has currently undergone a major transformation from her last character for her latest project, The Bitter Pill, about a woman who's on meds to »
Happy Birthday, Rooney Mara! Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Star Turns 27
17 April 2012 5:30 AM, PDT | E! Online - UK | See recent E! Online - UK news »
How would Lisbeth Salander celebrate her birthday? Maybe a new tattoo or piercing? But we're guessing Rooney Mara isn't going to go that route on her special day (however, we're not knockin' the idea). The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star is 27 today. Although Mara was featured in the epic film Social Network as the woman who inspired the whole business venture, she had her breakout performance in the adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novel, beating out many Hollywood stars for the lead role in David Fincher's film. The actress has currently undergone a major transformation from her last character for her latest project, The Bitter Pill, about a woman who's on meds to »
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
14 April 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Dream House; Black Pond; Acts of Godfrey
When Rooney Mara picked up an Oscar nomination for her punchy central performance in David Fincher's American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011, Sony, 18), one question hung awkwardly in the air: how come Noomi Rapace wasn't similarly honoured for her equally impressive turn as cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in the original Scandinavian movie a couple of years earlier? Adapted from the first of Stieg Larsson's posthumously bestselling Millennium trilogy, Niels Arden Oplev's modestly budgeted thriller made a European star of the mercurial Rapace, who went on to feature in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and is soon to be seen headlining Ridley Scott's eagerly anticipated sci-fi epic Prometheus. It's hard not to conclude that, while Rapace delivered her dialogue in Swedish, Mara was feted for performing essentially the same role in »
- Mark Kermode
George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords! HBO: Go-Go Game of Thrones Season 3
11 April 2012 7:05 PM, PDT | Boomtron | See recent Boomtron news »
Game of Thrones Season 3 and why book fans are excited
Much like last year, HBO announced that Game of Thrones would be renewed for another season roughly around the launch of the current season, in this case, days after the second episode of the season, “The Night Lands” (see Elisabeth’s take on the episode). For fans of Game of Thrones whose experiences in Westeros are exclusive to the HBO show, words like A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords probably don’t mean a whole hell of a lot. For fans of the book series, “A Song of Ice and Fire”, however, this is incredible even beyond the general excitement of learning you’d have more of what may or may not be a quality show.
Season 2 is essentially A Clash of Kings, the second book in the series, a fine enough novel that probably got robbed »
- Jay Tomio
Headhunters – review
7 April 2012 4:13 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Jo Nesbø's novel has been expertly transformed into a cool, brutal, deeply Scandinavian thriller
The cinema, as Karl Marx might have said, repeats itself, first as a Scandinavian thriller, then as a Hollywood remake. An American company acquired the rights to remake Morten Tyldum's Headhunters while it was still in production. They'll have trouble in making a movie half as good or half as authentic.
Although inevitably indebted to American models, Headhunters is firmly rooted in the Scandinavian experience, and it moves with the speed of a demented lemming heading for the cliff-edge of a fjord. The film is adapted from a novel by Jo Nesbø, the Norwegian crime writer who is now up there beside the Swedes Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, and the screenplay is the work of Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg, old hands at this kind of thing, the latter having adapted novels by both Mankell and Larsson. »
- Philip French
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