Tomorrow night, at the stroke of midnight (PST), the official full length theatrical trailer for Rooney’s movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street” will debut online. We will of course bring you the video and caps as soon as it becomes available, so check back soon!!

Latino Review visited the Chicago set of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and have just posted their experience, which includes interviews with Rooney and other cast and crew members. And remember we have a new trailer and some new TV spots to look forward to this week!

Seated towards the middle of the factory and away from the sights and sounds of filming, we wait around the table for cast and crewmembers to speak with us.

One of the first is Rooney Mara, who, fresh from shooting a scene, walks across the factory in impossibly high boots that would surely pose a problem when running from Freddy Krueger. Her cheery disposition stands in contrast to her character Nancy Thompson, who moments before was yelling at her friend and love interest Quentin to wake up or risk a showdown with the nightmare-stalking Krueger.

“She’s described as ‘goth,’” explains Mara, but “She’s goth in the sense that she’s, quite obviously, disturbed and quiet and keeps to herself and can’t really open up to people or connect with people. And she feels really alone in the world because of things that happened to her when she was younger. But throughout the movie you see that change, and you see her grow, so it’s a good arc.”

Today, every bit of Nancy’s character design and Mara’s look reflect that realness and depth. Nancy isn’t a token hot teen in the latest fashions despite her boots. She wears dark colors, purple nail polish, and a baggy cardigan that seems to swallow her slight figure. And while there’s no denying that Mara is a gorgeous woman in real life, as Nancy her eyes are darkened and her hair stringy from depriving herself of sleep.

“Rooney was someone who, to us, embodied that kind of natural, real girl thing that Nancy had in the original,” says Fuller. “Freddy Krueger is the star of the film, and everyone else has to be able to have the chops to keep up with him, but that’s the star of the movie. For all of the actors, we tried to find kids who had the chops to be really good.”

And those chops extend to emulating her character’s self-imposed insomnia.

“If we have a really intense scene, I try not to let myself get more than three hours of sleeps, and after a few days that’s quite draining,” she tells us. “Last night when I went home I was like a wreck. I was really spent, because yesterday was really intense, because it was all day one of the most intense scenes in the movie, crying the whole day. Seventy-five takes of just bawling my eyes out.”

Source (full feature): Latino Review

A new trailer for Rooney’s movie “A Nightmare on Elm Street” will debut with “The Crazies”, starting February 26 (online before that), and new TV spots will premiere this weekend during the Olympics! If you see a commercial, especially if you are on the East Coast, please let us know details so we can record it and put it online for everybody. Can’t wait for promotion to really start kicking off!!!

Rooney’s movie “Dare” is out on DVD and Blu-Ray today! I saw this movie and while it’s nothing special, Rooney’s performance really stood out and proves the range that she has. It’s a character unlike any other she’s played before, that’s for sure! If only for Rooney’s performance alone, I would recommend this movie.

You can order it now on DVD or on Blu-Ray on Amazon now.

We’ll bring you captures soon!

The new movie about the founders of Facebook starring Rooney Mara, Justin Timberlake, Jesse Einsenberg and more will be released on October 15, 2010. What a great year 2010 is shaping up to be for Rooney!

Looks like Rooney and the cast are headed back to set to film new scenes for “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, according to Spoiler TV, who posted this new casting call:

Nightmare on Elm St – New Casting Call for Minor Characters

[WAITRESS] 40s. She works at the diner with NANCY. She started working at the diner as a summer job 20 years ago and never left. PLEASE SUBMIT CHARACTER ACTORS WITH GREAT FACES (Two lines)

[DUTCH] 50s. The owner of a small-town American diner at which NANCY works. PLEASE SUBMIT CHARACTER ACTORS WITH GREAT WEATHERED FACES. (One line)

[TEENAGE GUY] Eating at the diner with JESSE, QUENTIN and a FRIEND, he tells QUENTIN that asking NANCY about the diner specials doesn’t count as talking to her. Please keep in mind that they must be playing high school age. Please submit all character types – from cool to charactery. (One line)

[FRIEND] Eating at the diner with JESSE, QUENTIN, and TEENAGE GUY, he asks what the point would be of getting to know someone when they all graduate in a few months anyway. Please keep in mind that they must be playing high school age. Please submit all character types – from cool to charactery. (One line)

Rooney has lined up another film! This time it’s the highly anticipated film about the founders of Facebook, The Social Network. She will co-star with Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake and a whole slew of up and coming young actors.

“Rehearsals began yesterday for The Social Network. The ensemble cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Max Minghella, Rooney Mara, Dakota Johnson, Brenda Song, Armie Hammer, Josh Pence and about 20 others to come. Shooting begins Oct. 19th in Cambridge, MA.”

No word yet on what role she will play.

Great news! Rooney has signed on to a new film project! She will be reteaming with her “Nightmare on Elm Street” co-star Thomas Dekker on the indie drama “Kaboom”:

‘Kaboom’ adds four to cast
Thomas Dekker, Kelly Lynch join Gregg Araki indie pic
By Jay A. Fernandez
Oct 5, 2009, 11:00 PM ET

Gregg Araki is detonating his next picture.

The writer-director (”The Doom Generation”) has cast Roxane Mesquida, Thomas Dekker, Kelly Lynch and Rooney Mara in “Kaboom,” which follows the sexual awakening of a group of college students. Araki is shooting the indie feature now.

Araki, repped by Untitled Entertainment, is the director of “Smiley Face,” “Mysterious Skin” and “The Living End.”

Repped by APA and Untitled, Mesquida has appeared in “The Last Mistress” and “Fat Girl.” This will be the French actress’ American feature debut.

Dekker, repped by ICM and the Schiff Co., starred in “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” and recently appeared in the feature “My Sister’s Keeper.” He next appears in the remake of “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” releasing in April.

Lynch, repped by Talent Works and Crestview Entertainment, appeared on Showtime’s “The L Word” and in the features “Charlie’s Angels” and “Road House.”

Mara, repped by Gersh and Sanders & Armstrong Management, next stars in “Youth in Revolt,” hitting theaters in January, and “Nightmare on Elm Street.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

Looks like we’ll have to wait a little longer to see Rooney in “Youth in Revolt”. The release date has been changed from October 30, 2009 to January 15, 2010.

The Weinstein Company has pushed the long-delayed Michael Cera comedy, Youth in Revolt, to January 15, 2010. The movie, in which Cera plays a lovelorn teenager who imagines a ladies-man alter ego for himself, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival to positive reviews this month, after having been shuffled around the release schedule for some time now. “This is in no way a slight to the film,” says Liz Biber, EVP of Publicity for The Weinstein Co. and Dimension Films. “It screened fabulously in Toronto and now we want to give the film more time to build word of mouth and maybe even hit a few more festivals. The movie will be an excellent piece of counterprogramming against the heavier Academy fare in January.”

Source: Entertainment Weekly