The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Hopeing to distance himself from fallout from a libel conviction. journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden’s far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle fourty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist’s invesitgation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally – tattooed, punk hacker , Lisbeth Salander.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. Directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, the film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon. The screenplay is by Steven Zaillian.

Opes in theaters, Wednesday December 21, 2011.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Freddy Krueger returns in “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, a contemporary re-imagining of the horror classic. A group of suburban teenagers share one common bond; they are all being stalked by Freddy Krueger; a horribly disfigured killer who hunts them in their dreams. As long as they stay awake they can protect one another…but when they sleep there is no escape.

Donning Freddy’s trademark fedora, red-and-green stripped sweater and four-bladed glove is Academy Award nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley (“Little Children” “Watchmen”). The film is being directed by award-winning music video and commercial director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Green Day’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”), marking his feature film debut.  The teens who’s dreams are terrorized by Freddy Krueger are played by an ensemble of young actors including Kyle Gallner (“The Haunting in Connecticut”) Katie Cassidy (“Taken”, TV’s “Supernatural), Rooney Mara (“Urban Legend: Bloody Mary”), Thomas Dekker (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”), and Kellan Lutz (“The Twilight Saga”). The supporting cast also includes veteran character actor Clancy Brown (“The Shawshank Redemption” “Highlander”) and Connie Britton (“Friday Night Lights”).

“A Nightmare on Elm Street” is based on characters created by Wes Craven in his 1984 sleeper horror hit. That film went on to become one of the horror genre’s longest-running, most successful and innovative film series, spawning seven sequels.  Now, 25 years later, comes a contemporary incarnation of the Freddy Krueger origin story.

Opens April 30th.

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