The release of the much-anticipated Facebook film is getting close to being released.

The new trailer for the movie was just released starring an ensemble cast which consists of Justin Timberlake, Jesse Eisenberg, Brenda Song, Andrew Garfield, Rooney Mara and Armie Hammer.

The Social Network is about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. None of the Facebook staff, including founder Mark Zuckerberg was involved with the project.

The film focuses on the early years of Facebook, similar to the book, The Accidental Billionaires.

The film is set to be released on October 1, 2010.

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Aside from the impending casting of the next Spider-Man, perhaps the most followed piece of upcoming casting might be that of Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. This week two names have been added to the already long list of candidates, including South African rapper Yo-Landi Vi$$er and now Nightmare on Elm Street star Rooney Mara.

Of course it should be noted that The Playlist picked this hot tip up from an anonymous source, but it’s worth talking about either way. It’s no more silly that Yo-Landi Vi$$er’s name, that’s for sure. Besides, Mara just finished work with director David Fincher on The Social Network, where she is apparently stealing scenes left and right from star Jesse Eisenberg.

Mara and Vi$$er (that just feels silly to type) join a list that includes Carey Mulligan, Ellen Page, Kristen Stewart, Mia Wasikowska, Keira Knightley and several others. In fact, our Cole Abaius put together A Handy User’s Guide to Who Wants the Dragon Tattoo for those who haven’t been keeping up. At this point the head-spinning effects of this particular rumor mill have impaired my ability to choose which actress I think best for the role. However, I’m not convinced that either of the two ladies joining the mix today have the chops. In short, I’m still in support of Carey Mulligan.

Source: Film School Rejects

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Rooney Mara goes through the wringer as the lead of the revamped A Nightmare on Elm Street, but it’s nothing compared to what she had to endure in her upcoming film, the David Fincher-directed Facebook drama The Social Network. The meticulous Fincher is notorious for demanding that his actors peform dozens of takes, as Jake Gyllenhaal found out while shooting Zodiac: “Sometimes we’d do a lot of takes, and he’d turn, and he would say, because he had a computer there, ‘Delete the last 10 takes,’” Gyllenhaal told the NYT in 2007. “And as an actor that’s very hard to hear.”

When Movieline spoke to Mara this week, we had to know: Is Fincher still up to his old tricks?

“Yes, very much so,” she said. “You know, the first day we did an 8-page scene, and it took about 6 minutes to do it all the way through. I think we did it about 99 times?” • Read full story…

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Nightmare On Elm Street’s leading lady Rooney Mara insists shooting the remake of the 1984 horror classic was far from terrifying.

“Except for a few times where I was scared, it was not that scary but definitely exhausting, for sure,” she explained at the film’s Hollywood premiere.

The 25-year-old plays a new ‘Nancy’ in the movie, heading up a talented ensemble of young stars taking on the new Freddy Krueger (played by Watchmen actor Jackie Earle Haley).

“I was very nervous, but after sitting down with the director and talking about it, our version of Nancy was just so different that I had to forget about all the pressure and expectations and go with the Nancy that we created.” • Read full story…

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Sometimes, projects are announced that leave everyone scratching their heads during the many months it takes to actually cast, film and assemble the thing. Why would Gus Van Sant want to remake “Psycho” scene-by-scene? Why would Pixar make a film about a 78-year-old man?

Ultimately, all film fans can do is put their trust in a filmmaker and hope they see something special where we might not. And currently, it’s hard to imagine a project more along these lines than the one from the director of “Fight Club” about … Facebook?

“I just finished David Fincher’s next film, ‘The Social Network,’ ” fast-rising young actress Rooney Mara (“Youth in Revolt”) said of the mysterious project. “That should be coming out in October, I think.” • Read full story…

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Breakout: Three reasons Rooney Mara is going to make it big in 2010.

1) She plays the kind-of-sort-of girlfriend of loveable geek-of-the-moment Michael Cera in Youth in Revolt. Like their relationship, the film’s a bit off-on, but Mara is great as a French-loving elusive teen who doesn’t know what she wants.

2) She’s been cast as the lead in slasher remake A Nightmare on Elm Street. Which means that even if the film’s bollocks, she’ll have made all eyes turn in her direction. And if it’s a franchise starter, endless sequels could prove very profitable.

3) She’s co-starring with Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg in Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network. Yeah, the Facebook movie. It could be good. It could be bad. Either way, she’s making friends.

Damaged Goods? Her debut role was in the diabolical Urban Legends 3: Bloody Mary. Let’s hope Elm Street fares better.

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