YAY, ROONEY’S GOT A NEW MOVIE!! She will be re-teaming with her “Tanner Hall” director Francesca Gregorini on a new indie film called “Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes” and Rooney will of course be the star! Can’t wait!

Rooney Mara has signed on for her first project since landing the most coveted role of the past several years, Lisbeth Salander for David Fincher’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. The Playlist reports that Mara will reunite with another former director, Francesca Gregorini of “Tanner Hall”, for “Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes”.

Mara will play a troubled young woman who becomes obsessed with her new neighbor that looks uncannily like the girl’s dead mother. Playlist also reports that rumors that had linked Rachel Weisz to a role in the film, presumably the neighbor, have been shot down her the actress’s reps. Gregorini and Mara have long talked about working together again and it appears they will finally get to as “Emanuel” gears up for a summer shoot. Their film “Tanner Hall”, which debuted at the Toronto Film Festival all the way back in 2009, might finally see the inside of a movie theater this year as new distrubition company Anchor Bay plans to release it late 2011 to coincide with Mara’s “Dragon Tattoo” release.

Mara has been in Sweden filming “Dragon Tattoo” since September, though she and director Fincher, who first worked together on “The Social Network”, have both been spotted hobnobbing at various awards season fetes in LA in the past couple of months. Sony, the studio behind both “The Social Network” and “Dragon Tattoo”, could be giving the production a bit of a break as the “Social Network” gang is in the midst of a very close fight for Oscar glory.

Source: Up and Comers

Finally! After being picked up by Moving Pictures Film & Television and then never being released, looks like “Tanner Hall” will finally see theaters this year, as its new distributor, Anchor Bay, plans to release it late 2011, close to Rooney’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” December release date.

EXCLUSIVE: Anchor Bay has closed a deal to distribute Tanner Hall, a coming-of-age film that premiered at Toronto last fall. The film got a dose of deal momentum after its unknown star, Rooney Mara, landed the coveted role of Lisbeth Salander in the David Fincher-directed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Anchor Bay, which bought domestic, UK, Australia and New Zealand rights, plans to release the film in close proximity to Dragon Tattoo, which gets released December 21 by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Tanner Hall also stars Tom Everett Scott, Chris Kattan and Amy Sedaris, and marks the directorial debut of Francesca Gregorini and Tatiana von Furstenberg. The film takes place at a boarding school in a New England town where four restless teens come of age. Brie Larsen, Georgia King and Amy Ferguson round out the quartet.

The picture was well received at Toronto, and came out of the festival looking like it would get distributed by Moving Pictures Film & Television. By the time Mara got the Salander role that every young actress in Hollywood wanted, Tanner Hall’s distribution situation had become tenuous and MPF&T agreed to step aside. Submarine Entertainment’s Josh Braun and attorney Marc H. Simon made the new deal with Anchor Bay’s Bill Clark, Kevin Kasha, Josh Thomashow and Richard Turner.

We have our first official Rooney appearance to look forward to since being cast in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”! On January 8th, Rooney will join “The Social Network” co-stars Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer and Justin Timberlake in Palm Springs to receive the Performance Ensemble Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival! CONGRATS!! In a press release, PSIFF Chairman Harold Matzer said:

“Every so often, a movie comes along with performances that set the standard for a generation of actors. ‘The Social Network’ combines a theme that defines our time with performances that redefine acting for the screen.”

“The Social Network” is headed to DVD/Blu-Ray soon! Check out the special features below and pre-order your copy! *crosses fingers Rooney is part of the cast featured on the commentary*

“The Social Network (DVD | Blu-Ray) out on January 11, 2011

Disc One

* Commentary with David Fincher
* Commentary with Aaron Sorkin and Cast

Disc Two

* How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? Feature-length documentary
* Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter and Ren Klyce on Post
* Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and David Fincher on the Score
* In the Hall of the Mountain King: Reznor’s First Draft
* Swarmatron
* Jeff Cronenweth and David Fincher on the Visuals
* Ruby Skye VIP Room: Multi-Angle Scene Breakdown

The cast for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” continues to come together, and today we have word of who’s going to be young Harriet Vanger. Alexandra Daddario of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” will be portraying young Harriet in the flashback scenes of the movie.

The 24-year-old actress will next be seen in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as a young Harriet Vanger. The older version is played by Joely Richardson. Do you think they look alike?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is about journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who is hired by a grieving man to find his niece Harriet, who disappeared years ago. Mikael is aided by Lisbeth Salander, played by Rooney Mara.

Source: Just Jared

Congrats to Rooney and the entire cast of “The Social Network” on this great honor!! *crosses fingers we’ll see Rooney attend the ceremony*

Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Josh Pence, Brenda Song, Rashida Jones, Douglas Urbanski and Rooney Mara to receive the “Hollywood Ensemble Acting Award” at the Hollywood Awards Gala.

The festival and awards will mark their return on October 20 for a week long series of screenings, competitions and awards. The Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on October 25, 2010.

Congratulations once again to Rooney and the entire cast and crew of “The Social Network”, it is the #1 movie at the box office for a 2nd straight week! Word of mouth is incredibly strong on this film and it only dropped around 30% from opening weekend, which is huge.

$15.9 mil ‘Social’ No. 1 for 2nd straight weekend
‘Life,’ ‘Secretariat’ debut strong, ‘Soul’ starts soft at No. 5

The Facebook drama “The Social Network” continues to add more friends at the box office as the Sony picture took in another $15.9, according to Rentrak, to top the weekend for a second straight week.

Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel’s romantic comedy “Life as We Know It” debuted with a $14.6-million weekend to take the No. 2 spot.

Coming in third place, Disney’s horse-racing drama “Secretariat” made a comfortable debut with $12.6 million.

“Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” added another $7 million to its nest egg to take the fourth spot.

Rounding out the top five with a relatively soft debut and $7 million was Wes Craven’s “My Soul to Take.”

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

David Fincher spoke to Swedish news outlet SVD to promote “The Social Network” and of course had some things to say about “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, which is currently filming. Most notably, 3 new actors have joined the cast: Joely Richardson, Steven Berkoff and David Dencik, who appeared in the original Swedish films as well. Below is a rough translation of the interview:

Millennium film will “capture Sweden”
Director David Fincher wants his version of Stieg Larsson’s books to catch Sweden.
“I hope I can find an atmosphere reminiscent of “Chinatown”.”

David Fincher is a superstar in Hollywood. He has previously made such as “Seven” and “Fight Club”, and may currently very positive reviews for his film “The social network”, the story of the young men who started up.

It is to talk about the film – which goes up in Sweden on 22 October – as he hits up a few journalists.

But since he is currently also engaged in directing the first American film by Stieg Larsson “Millennium” trilogy, he also speaks about it – but says a bit ironically:

“I’ve just started with it. I have not had time to figure out some cliché answers yet to use when I asked about it.”

Filming has already started, but first this week is production in high gear with filming on the streets around Stockholm.

David Fincher says that it is definitely not a remake of the Swedish film.

“There is absolutely no reason to do that. Steve Zaillian has written the new screenplay, and he has based it on the book and made his own version. Sure, there are scenes that will resemble them in the Swedish film, but it is the book that we are filming.”

He talks a lot about “Swedish Noir”, and says that his movie also atmospherically will differ from the Swedish. “It was very effectively done in an American way. I hope I can find an atmosphere reminiscent of ‘Chinatown’.”

Roman Polanski directed the noir classic from 1974 with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway in the lead roles.

When the TT spectra asked when shooting starts for real, and when Daniel Craig would come into play in the role of Mikael Blomkvist, Fincher just smiles and does not respond.

Will there be one, or will the three Millennium Films?

David Fincher laughs loudly and says, “We’ll see. If the first is not good, it’s no use to do more.”

However, he with a few new names added to the actress list where we have been told Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Robin Wright and Christopher Plummer.

“Let’s see. Joely Richardson. And Steven Berkoff. And David Dencik.”

David Finchers “The girl with the dragon tattoo” will premiere in autumn 2011.

Google translated and edited by RMS from SVD.

Congratulations to Rooney and the cast and crew of “The Social Network” on their #1 finish at the box office!

‘Social Network’ tops weekend box office
Sony’s “The Social Network” tops the weekend domestic box office, taking in $23 million.

The David Fincher film about the social networking site Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg is already generating Oscar buzz for its young cast, which includes Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake. The film opened with $8 million in its first day of release on Friday.

Warner Bros’ “Legend of the Guardian: Owls of Ga’Hoole” swooped into second place with $10.9 million, followed by 20th Century Fox’s drama “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” with $10.1 million.

Ben Affleck’s “The Town” from Warner Bros. entered its third week in cinemas at No. 4, nabbing another $10 million.

The Sony teen comedy “Easy A” strutted away with $7 million to close out the top five list of the weekend’s most successful films on the domestic front.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

Thanks to William for the head’s up that Rooney’s new movie “The Winning Season” will be released on DVD on November 23, 2010 and is up for pre-order now on Amazon!

From director James C. Strouse (Grace is Gone) comes THE WINNING SEASON starring Sam Rockwell as an adult misfit who is brought on to coach the local girl’s high school basketball team. THE WINNING SEASON co-stars Emma Roberts, and also stars Rooney Mara, Rob Corddry, Shareeka Epps, Emily Rios and Margo Martindale.

No special features news yet, but we will keep you updated! And of course DVD captures will be coming your way as soon as I get my hands on a copy.