The mission, should Tom Cruise and company have chosen to accept it, was to come out on top this weekend at the box office, despite the presence of a certain damaged girl with a certain well-known tattoo. And Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol – one of Cruise’s best-ever reviewed films – accomplished this goal with ease, earning $26.5 million on Friday and Saturday. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Trailer The action flick beat out Sherlock Holmes and a disappointing Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , which debuted at number four with $13 million. Here is a look at the top 10 box office results : Mission: Impossible:Ghost Protoco l – $26.5 million Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows – $17.8 million Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked – $13.3 million The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – $13 million The Adventures of Tintin – $9.1 million We Bought a Zoo – $7.8 million New Year’s Eve – $3.0 million Arthur Christmas – $2.7 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 – $2.1 million Hugo – $2.0 million
The American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens in theaters tonight at midnight, and while you’re probably not surprised to hear star Rooney Mara makes her nude debut (duh, she’s topless on the poster ), thanks to our Skin Skout we’re gonna get all Lisbeth on you and dig in to the dirty details. But don’t worry, we aren’t going to hack your laptop…God knows what we’d find on there! Rooney’s nudes begin on a decidedly unpleasant note as she bares butt during a graphic anal rape scene 54 minutes in. Then 4 minutes later, we see her pierced boobs for the first time, as well as her bruised cheeks, as she washes herself off afterwards. They did say it was going to be “The Feel-Bad Movie of Christmas”… Luckily, the rest of the movie’s nudity is in a consensual context, with Rooney showing snookers to a lez-be-friend she picks up at a nightclub 1 hour, 16 minutes in, then going AC/DC by baring boobs, butt and strawberry blonde bush in the sack with Daniel Craig 1 hour, 39 minutes and 2 hours, 14 minutes in. Want a sneak peek of Rooney’s boobies? You’ll be The Guy with the Raging Hard-On when you see our The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo page right here at MrSkin.com!
Critics are praising David Fincher’s direction and Rooney Mara’s performance. By Kevin P. Sullivan Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Photo: Sony Pictures The year’s most anticipated movie about ritualized serial killing, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” finally hits theaters Tuesday (December 20), and critics have applauded both director for bringing his signature style and ‘s performance. This is the second time we’re seeing a big-screen adaptation of the
While the smothering contraption worn by Daniel Craig in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo most definitely bear noting, a few of us are a little more preoccupied with how Rooney Mara’s character, Lisbeth Salander, falls in line with the fashions of cinema’s best-known female computer hackers. Hint: Pretty well!
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, won the weekend box office with an estimated $40 million , despite an average debut. In all, the weekend’s top 12 movies earned about 13 percent less than last year’s. Even Sherlock was expected to earn at least $50 million in its opening weekend. Here’s the trailer for the film if you haven’t seen it: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Trailer This coming week brings The Adventures of Tintin, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, We Bought a Zoo , and the wide expansion of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol . In select locations, M:I – 4 was third this weekend behind Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks . Here’s a look at how the Top 10 shook out overall nationwide: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows , $40 million Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked , $23.5 million Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol , $13 million New Year’s Eve , $7.4 million The Sitter, $4.4 million The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 , $4.3 million Young Adult , $3.7 million Hugo , $3.63 million Arthur Christmas , $3.6 million The Muppets , $3.5 million
You won’t see a film all year that holds you like David Fincher’s thriller. By Eric Ditzian Roonie Mara in “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” Photo: Columbia TriStar It was our fault for underestimating David Fincher. Honestly, though, we weren’t the only ones going, “Wait, really?” when the Oscar-nominated helmer (who got straight-up robbed by the Academy last year in the Best Director category) cast his sweet, dimpled, couldn’t-even-really-intimidate-a-tech-nerd “Social Network” actress Rooney Mara as hard-edge hacker Lisbeth Salander in his adaptation of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” Then, this past January, we got our first look at Mara in character : She was Salander. And we were wrong, wrong, wrong. How do you say “mea culpa” in Swedish? Maybe like this: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is MTV’s Best Movie of 2011 ! The movie hasn’t even hit theaters yet (that’ll happen on December 20), but trust our panel of experts on this one, OK? For all the sizzling cool of “Drive” and all the 3-D majesty of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,” you won’t see a film all year that holds you — that’ll haunt you — like “Dragon Tattoo.” Based on Stieg Larsson’s international best-selling crime thriller (you know, the one half the people in any subway car in any city in the world are reading at any given moment), Fincher’s film followed up on the Swedish original, a critical and fan fave in its own right. What these three fictional treatments have in common, of course, is the story: Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist, is hired to investigate a decades-old missing-persons case. He convinces Salander, a motorcycle-driving ward of the state who’s not adverse to violent confrontations with anyone who crosses her, to assist in the search. Where Fincher separates and ultimately distinguishes his picture, then, is not in plot particulars (though he and writer Steven Zaillian do take a few liberties, especially with the ending), but in how he unfurls the story. Moviegoers might never need to travel to Sweden after watching his “Dragon Tattoo,” so fully does Fincher immerse viewers in an atmosphere of foggy Nordic islands and gritty Stockholm back alleys. There’s really no sense arguing: David Fincher is the finest working director in Hollywood. He’s also one hell of a casting director. There could be no other English-language choice for Blomkvist than Daniel Craig . Fincher fought for Mara against the wishes of his studio, even as A-listers like Scarlett Johansson competed for the role. To say Mara transformed herself to play Salander doesn’t quite capture the enormity of what the actress pulled off — butchering her hair, piercing her body, shedding weight, picking up a Swedish accent and almost re-sequencing her DNA to create the character. We’d say she came as close to becoming Salander as anyone born outside of Scandinavia could possibly be, if we hadn’t already seen Noomi Rapace’s impressive performance in the Swedish original and been sure Mara’s is the more absorbing portrayal. “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” is by no means a prefect film. It drags at times. It’s probably confusing to anyone who hasn’t read the book and committed the names of the huge cast of characters to memory. The ending, regardless of Fincher’s tweaks, remains a letdown. But these are quibbles. Let the Oscars and Globes anoint a silent black-and-white film as their favorite of the year. MTV knows “Dragon Tattoo” is the Best Movie of 2011. See for yourself on December 20. Stick with MTV as we count down the Best of 2011 , including the top Artists , Songs , Live Performances and EDM Artists of the year. Check out everything we’ve got on “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos Best Movies Of 2011 Debate
Her parents aren’t invited . Us Weekly makes this stunning declaration on the cover of its new issue, which features an older photo of a happy Prince William and Kate Middleton on the cover. The gist of the non-story: The Duchess will spend her very first Christmas weekend with her husband and the entire royal family at Queen Elizabeth’s retreat. Her parents have not been invited. Scandalous, right? Not really, as William will visit with Kate, Pippa Middleton and their parents before and after Christmas. Kate Middleton pregnancy rumors take a back seat … for one week! The princess will “quickly learn that this is not like any Christmas she has had,” a royal source says , but is that any different from any newly-married woman or man? In-laws. Can’t live with ’em, pass the egg nog. There are some challenges unique to Kate Middleton, however. The fashion icon is expected to change up to five times a day for formal meals, black-tie cocktail parties, church services and gift exchanges (novelty presents are encouraged). She also has to hide her baby bump. Just kidding. You didn’t think we could go a whole article without a reference to the ongoing Kate Middleton pregnancy rumors , did you? We should hope not.
Technically and stylistically, David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo should thrill fans of the Stieg Larsson book trilogy and newcomers alike. Simply put, the director’s dark vision and aesthetic brilliance make for a movie marvel. Casting, of course, plays a huge role in the film’s success, especially when the subject has already been tackled successfully by Swedish filmmakers with Noomi Rapace as the lead. In the U.S. version, Rooney Mara is scary good as Lisbeth Salander. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trailer (Extended) Mara’s bravado is explosive and the actress deserves serious consideration for an Academy Award nomination. Throughout The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , it is difficult to take one’s eyes off of Mara, no matter how much takes place around her. Daniel Craig is also outstanding as the co-protagonist, a journalist recently disgraced for libel. For a full breakdown on why this is one of the best films of this (or any) year, just follow the link for Movie Fanatic’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo review !
Moviegoers won’t be able to take their eyes off the American actress’ Lisbeth Salander, critics rave. By Eric Ditzian Rooney Mara in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” Photo: Columbia Pictures Rooney Mara owns “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” That is to say, while the film shows off David Fincher at his meticulous, moody best and Daniel Craig delivers yet another stellar performance, but the beating heart of the picture — or, if you will, the exposed pierced nipple — is Mara as the spiky-haired hacker, Lisbeth Salander. For all the shortcomings of “Dragon Tattoo”— and there are a bunch, from a pacing that sometimes drags to Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s deeply unsatisfying ending — you walk away unable to shake what you’ve just seen from Mara. Alternately vulnerable and vicious, her Salander is an entirely different creature from the one presented by Noomi Rapace in the Swedish version of the film and, what’s more, an entirely different creature from anything Mara offered in “The Social Network” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Let’s stop right there, before we go from gushing to outright hero worship. At least we’re not alone. With the “Dragon Tattoo” review embargo officially lifted, critics have been celebrating Mara’s performance. The Transformation “Rooney Mara’s blazing, uncompromising performance is the film’s center, practically its reason to exist. … Eyebrows bleached blond, hair jet black and scowling constantly, Salander has deliberately modeled herself as the opposite of the feminine ideal, and though Mara digs into her humanity and even sensuality, she never lets down Salander’s guard for the sake of the audience sympathy.” — Katey Rich, Cinema Blend The Chemistry “Mara and Craig make an indomitable screen pair, he nominally leading their intense search into decades-old serial killings, she surging ahead, plowing through obstacles with flashes of phenomenal intellect and eruptions of physical fury.” — David Germain, The Associated Press The Sex Scenes “[It’s] Mara’s movie for the taking, and she snatches it up in dramatic fashion. … Fincher’s belief in her is borne out in a dominating performance of submerged rage, confidence and defiance. Baring all in the several sex scenes, both coerced and consensual, she goes all the way in a performance that compares favorably to that of Noomi Rapace in the Swedish version and its two sequels. She comes across here as the real deal.” — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter The Awards “Mara, I feel, gives Salander a sadder and more vulnerable aura and a more emotionally readable quality than what Noomi Rapace delivered in the Swedish trilogy. You might compare the two films down the road and say, “Nope, don’t see it…six of one, half-dozen of the other” but I know what I felt from Mara’s eyes, and there’s a lot going on inside her, I swear. Tremors and feints and glances and looks that say “stay away, I don’t want you near….wait, maybe I do.” There’s enough in this performance, I feel, for Mara to be counted among the year’s Best Actress nominees.” — Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere The Final Word “You can’t take your eyes off Rooney Mara as the notorious Lisbeth Salander.” — David Denby, The New Yorker Check out everything we’ve got on “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo:’ A Closer Look
The notorious embargo on David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has officially been lifted, and thus you can expect a frenzied film-culture commentariat to weigh in with raves, rumblings and other reactions all day. Things are no different here, where a few first impressions are making the rounds.
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