WOW. In a bit of shocking news this morning, Rooney was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”! HUGE CONGRATS TO ROONEY!!

Looks like Rooney will be back as Lisbeth Salander! The article suggests filming should begin late this year or early 2013, and as we know, if David Fincher returns, he would like to do them back to back.

Sony Going Ahead With ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Sequels Despite Underperforming Box Office

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is not known for risky moves. So all through the holidays rival studio execs were predicting that Amy Pascal et al would not go forward with the 2nd and 3rd film installments of Steig Larsson’s bestselling Millennium-trilogy The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. That opinion was based on the mediocre opening for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Sure its domestic debut was significantly behind M:I4 and Sherlock 2, but it’s R-rated and both of those are PG-13. Then overseas grosses, expected to be huge, began trickling in underwhelming. GWDT opened only 3rd in the UK, and disappointing in Asia, and “not as good as hoped for” in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland. Now I’ve learned that Sony Pictures is indeed going forward with The Girl Who Played With Fire already written by Steve Zallian, and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest which Zallian is penning. Studio chief Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin have not yet locked in David Fincher as director. But they’re looking to start shooting #2 by the end of this year/beginning of next. Overseas Sony now expects GWDT to do over $200M — so $300M all in globally. “And that’s a really good number,” the Sony exec told me hopefully. But one mogul counters, “The surprising part is that Sony is not waiting to see if the movie works overseas before going forward with the sequels. I would have.”

Right now Dragon Tattoo has amassed a $76.8M domestic cume and should get very close to $100M because it’s holding better than any other holiday movie. Sony and rival studios believe the movie’s box office was hurt by that long brutal rape scene not appropriate for a Christmas release. (“It’s a notch too dark for that window,” one studio chief tells me. Agrees a top Sony exec, “It was too cocky of us. We might think about that next time.”) Counting against GWDT was that the Hollywood version of the bestselling book had already been made into a Swedish film widely distributed beginning in 2009. Plus Zallian and Fincher changed the first book’s ending. As for book #2, its challenge is that title character Lisbeth Salander played by Rooney Mara) isn’t much in it. But Sony has changed that, too, and Zallian’s script places her front and center again.

Source: Deadline

I’ve replaced a bunch of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” stills with HQ versions, and added a bunch of new stills.

024 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Promotional Stills

Congrats to Rooney on her first Best Actress win of the season! The St. Louis Film Critics Association have chosen her as the best lead female performance of the year for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” Congrats Rooney, hope there are more to come! The movie itself also won some other honors.

Best Actress
Rooney Mara (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)
runners-up – tied: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) and Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn)

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree Of Life)
runners-up – tied: Jeff Cronenweth (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and Janusz Kaminski (War Horse)

Best Scene – favorite movie scene or sequence
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo: the opening titles sequence
runner-up: The Artist: the finale

A bunch of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” press day junket interviews are below. There’s probably tons more out there, so stay tuned for more!

103 x Screen Captures – 12.14.11: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Junket Day 1

029 x Screen Captures – 12.15.11: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Junket Day 2

047 x Screen Captures – 12.16.11: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Junket Day 3

Over 40 new images from that amazing promotional photoshoot Rooney did for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” that have been showing up in various magazines over the past couple of months have been added to the gallery. Enjoy!

044 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Promotional Photoshoot

HUGE CONGRATS to Rooney!!! She received a very deserved Golden Globe Best Actress nomination for her role in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.” SO happy. Rooney is fantastic in the movie.

Best Actress, Drama
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Here’s some more footage of Rooney, David Fincher and Stellan Skarsgard in Stockholm last month at the “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” photocall and press conference.

On a side note, I am going to see the movie tonight and am SO EXCITED!!

SO AMAZING. Can’t wait for this movie! Less than three weeks away!