I’ve added new event photos of Rooney Mara along with David Fincher and Daniel Craig attend the ‘Millenium: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Madrid Photocall at Villamagna Hotel in Madrid on January 4, 2012.

Edit: Added over more than 50 photos to the gallery!

I’ve added x87 new high quality event photos of Rooney Mara attend the ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo’ Paris Premiere at Cinema UGC Normandie on January 3, 2012 in Paris, France. Rooney looks pretty with her red lipstick on! She definitely shines throughout the evening.

Edited: I’ve uploaded 87 high quality photos to the gallery.

I’ve added new photoshoot of Rooney Mara did for ‘Los Angeles Times’ during her interview with the magazine for ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ where she discuss both of ther role & movie.

Reporting from New York City— — In a pleated white dress, her jet-black bangs neatly trimmed, Golden Globe nominee Rooney Mara looks nothing like Lisbeth Salander as she relaxes in the drawing room of New York’s Crosby Street Hotel. But it doesn’t take long for the 26-year-old to show the resolve that helped land her the coveted lead role in the U.S. version of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” vaulting over a scrum of top Hollywood actresses. Mara previously was best known for her opening tête-à-tête with Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network.” Now, her multiply-pierced face as the fierce hacker is everywhere. The piercings in her eyebrow and ears are gone now — though she has said one other, seen in a topless teaser poster released earlier this year, is still in place — but there’s plenty of steel still in her even and unflinching gaze.

There’s a debate about whether Lisbeth has Asperger’s syndrome. What do you think?

People ask me, “What did you decide?” As the character, she doesn’t know, so I didn’t make a decision either way. It’s clear from the book that everyone is diagnosing her with that, and on paper it sounds like she does. I went to a school in Sherman Oaks called the Help Group for kids with autism and Asperger’s, just to see. I got to talk to one girl in particularly who was around the same age and who people said reminded them of the character. It was incredible talking to her. When she was done talking to you, she was done. There was no sign of it; I just wasn’t there anymore. I think Lisbeth does that a lot.

One aspect of the story that can be hard to swallow is when Lisbeth decides to sleep with Daniel Craig’s character shortly after she’s been raped. How do you understand her actions?

There’s certainly a lot of discussion about that. People were horrified by the teaser poster, like, “How can you show her in that way? This is a rape victim.” I think Salander is a character who’s incredibly comfortable with her sexuality. Most of the time, it’s on her terms. This horrible thing happens to her, but I think she has a hard time with intimacy, period. Every once in a while, she needs a fix, friction and human contact. That’s why she goes to the club and meets Miriam and ends up in bed with her. When Mikael comes into her life, he’s one of the first people to just appreciate her for her. He’s honest and straightforward, and he does what he says he’s going to do. She sees someone that she can trust in him. It’s on her terms. It’s not like he gets her into bed.

You got pierced in a number of places to play the part. Did going through that painful process teach you anything about Lisbeth?

Not really. The piercings were one afternoon. It hurts for a second, and then it’s over. It didn’t really faze me. I did a lot of kickboxing and, early on, I would make a face that I was in pain. My trainer would say, “Now do it to me, and try and hurt me.” I would try and try and try, and he wouldn’t show anything, and it was so frustrating. He was like, “You’ve never really experienced pain. If you’re someone who is used to that, you don’t show it, because if you show someone that you’re in pain, it gives them a sense of pleasure.”

As I was working with him more and more, he’d be like, “Does this hurt? Am I working you hard enough? Because I can’t tell anymore.” I’ve kept that, not on purpose. I went on a haunted hayride over Halloween, and people would come up and scare me, and I wouldn’t even flinch. My sister and my friends would be, like, “What is wrong with you?” When you’re used to people being abusive, you find a way to turn it off. It’s not like [Lisbeth] was born not asking for help. She tried to go through channels, and no one helped her. After a while, you stop screaming.

David Fincher said your four-day shoot on “The Social Network” involved 2,400 takes, which was a joke, but he is famously meticulous, which is not something every actor warms to. How did you get along?

I love the way Fincher works. That’s not to say I wouldn’t want to work with someone who does two takes. But I really respond to it. We really work well together. • Read full story »

According to Sony, the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire, is still moving forward despite the lingering perception that Dragon Tattoo has underperformed.“[Dragon Tattoo] continues to do strong business and nothing has changed with respect to development of the next book,” a Sony rep tells EW.

In November, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal told us that The Girl Who Played With Fire was definitely a go, with a targeted late-2013 release date. But Dragon Tattoo, which has grossed $60 million in the U.S. since its release on Dec. 20, is being perceived as something of a box-office disappointment (although moviegoers are enthusiastic — it received an A from audience-survey firm CinemaScore — and it seems to be holding up well over time as it chugs toward the $100 million mark). Given the film’s merely decent performance, there’s been much speculation about whether Sony will now actually move forward with the sequel. But the Sony rep tells us that “development continues” on the sequel andSteven Zaillian is still working on the script as planned. So far no director has committed to the project (Fincher hasn’t yet decided whether to return), but according to Pascal, stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig are both already signed up for the other two films.Last month Mara told EW she’d love to play Lisbeth again. “I don’t feel finished with the character,” she said. “I’m not ready to go back there yet, but I think by the time we start, I will be.”

Source: EW

She’s pierced, tattooed, socially awkward, and seethingly angry — and yet somehow we can’t seem to get her out of our minds.

In this week’s issue ofEntertainment Weekly, writer Mark Harris explores what makes the character of Lisbeth Salander one of the most interesting of our time. Of course, the edgy heroine from Stieg Larsson’s novels is already known around the world — tens of millions have read The Millenium Trilogy, and Noomi Rapace depicted the dark female in the Swedish film adaptations — but with the release of David Fincher’s new The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo adaptation last week, American audiences are meeting the strange, vengeful hacker once again — and in a very new way, thanks to 26-year-old actress Rooney Mara.

Casting Mara, says Fincher, “wasn’t about finding someone who would comply. What I was smitten with, from about the third screen test of the five or six we did, was that this was a person I could turn this over to. I could say to her, ‘Here are the most annoying marbles that you need to keep rattling around in your skull. Now go—make it hurt, make it unfathomable, don’t articulate it, don’t use any of an actor’s greatest tricks or natural tools to build a bridge to the audience. Not even eye contact.’ And she’d do it.” Mara, for her part, understood Salander’s contradictions. “She has this ability to be ­incredibly violent, and she has a lot of anger and rage, but it’s something she works incredibly hard to keep at bay,” says the actress.

Then there was that Salander look, which she and Fincher worked hard to perfect. “Rooney’s a beautiful girl,” says Fincher. “She can look like Audrey Hepburn—but she can also look like a boy. So we’d decide where we wanted to put the stud through her eyebrow by asking, ‘Where is it going to be most in the way? Where is the most distracting place?’ ” Also, he adds, “We had to be really sure that the nipple piercing was in the place where it was going to catch the light.”

Source: EW

Terrence Malick has three movies in the works, and the timeline on when each will be shot/released is fuzzy.  The untitled romantic drama starring Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams is up first, though we don’t know release date (or even year) yet.  We have seen Malick filming Christian Bale for Knight of Cups and working with Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara for Lawless, but international distributor FilmNation announced these two films will shoot back to back in 2012.  Mara clarified the picture in a recent interview:

“[Lawless is] something that I hope to do, but it’s unfortunately not until September, so it’s a ways away.”

That timeline implies the plan is to shoot Knight of Cups earlier in the year, followed by production on Lawless.  Given how much time Malick generally spends in post-production, I imagine the director will spend a lot of 2012 in the editing room for the Affleck/McAdams drama.  The Tree of Life ended up in theaters a year and a half after the initially announced Christmas 2009 release date.  I expect similar delays for at least one of these projects.  More after the jump.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is underperforming at the box office, though critical support—especially for Mara’s performance—is solid, so the high profile movie will likely still accelerate Mara’s career path.  However, she tells EW that she does not have a follow-up project lined up yet.  Lawless could be next, though Mara can only commit to the Malick film being something she “hopes” to do, a prospect that excites her: • Read full story »

“I spent over a year at 100 miles-per-hour, just working on pure adrenaline for a lot of it,” Mara says of role

It took Rooney Mara two and a half months and five screen tests to land the sought-after role of Lisbeth Salander.

The competition for the fierce heroine of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” included some of the biggest names in Hollywood. The director, David Fincher, is well known for his extreme attention for detail — which Mara had witnessed firsthand in her small but memorable performance in his “The Social Network.” He shot her largest scene, the opening verbal volley between Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his girlfriend (Mara), in 99 takes.

To become Lisbeth, Mara had to prove she shared her mettle.

“It was like I couldn’t imagine what I would be doing if I wasn’t doing that,” says Mara. “I couldn’t see forward in my life without doing it.”

It was her tenacity, ultimately, that won over Fincher, who, in an unusually drawn-out audition process, also considered Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, and Carey Mulligan, among others.

“The thing that put it over the top for me, to go, ‘Guys, this is my final choice,’ is: She just wasn’t going to be denied,” says Fincher. “And that indomitability was so important to Lisbeth. That is the most important thing. Forget 98 pounds, forget black hair, forget the tattoos, forget the piercings. I needed somebody who wasn’t going to stop. She just kept going.” • Read full story »

I have uploaded new movie x1058 screen captures of Rooney Mara in “Tanner Hall” to the gallery.

“Rooney who?” is not a question people will be asking much longer.

Last Tuesday, David Fincher’s adaptation of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” — the first installment in the U.S. version of Stieg Larsson’s megaselling “Millennium Trilogy” — opened in theaters. And there was Rooney Mara, pale, pierced and punked-out, hacking into encrypted databases and taking vengeance on a sicko state-appointed guardian.

Mara plays Lisbeth Salander, the small, fierce, androgynous Swede with the photographic memory and the childhood trauma kicking around in her head. Although her previous credits were small — a couple of scenes in Fincher’s “The Social Network” and a starring role in the 2010 remake of “Nightmare on Elm Street” — she won the role over the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and a bevy of other big-name stars.

Now her performance in “Dragon Tattoo” has earned her a nomination for a Golden Globe.

Mara said that when she got the part in August, she moved to Stockholm to prepare. There, she steeped herself in the culture that underpins Larsson’s books — the city, the coffee, the umlauts.

“There was a lot of work that went into it,” says Mara, who is 26, hails from suburban New York, and is the great-granddaughter (on the maternal side) of Art Rooney, founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and (on the paternal side) great-granddaughter of Tim Mara, founder of the New York Giants. • Read full story »