Michael Nyqvist, who starred as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the Swedish versions of The  Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequel and went on to appear in a number of Hollywood films, died today of cancer. He was 56. His family confirmed the news to Swedish media. The actor also starred alongside…

Sony Pictures is moving forward with The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the long-in-the-works follow-up to the studio’s 2011 pic The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Principal photography is set to begin in September and a release date scheduled for October 5, 2018. Don’t Breathe helmer Fede Alvarez has been aboard to direct…

When Swedish husband-and-wife team Love Larson and Eva Von Bahr had their names called at the Oscar nominations announcement for their make-up work on The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, they weren't the only ones who were surprised. "It was funny," Von Bahr says, "we saw it on the…

Alfred A. Knopf editor in chief Sonny Mehta today unveiled title and cover photo of The Girl In The Spider’s Web, the fourth installment of Stieg Larsson’s bold Millennium saga that launched the dark heroine Lisbeth Salander and sold 80 million books in a three-novel series that began with The Girl With The Dragon Tatt…

‘Blue Is The Warmest Color’ Nabs France's Prix Louis Delluc France's prestigious Prix Louis Delluc has gone to Blue Is The Warmest Color. The Cannes Palme d'Or winner directed by Abdellatif Kechiche is famously not France's Oscar entry this year due to the timing of its release, but just nabbed a Golden Globe nominatio…

EXCLUSIVE: CAA today signed Noomi Rapace, the Swedish star whose breakout came in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and subsequent installments of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Rapace recently left UTA, and while she was expected to come to Hollywood to take meetings, she sparked to what CAA had to offer and…

EXCLUSIVE: Management 360 has signed Rooney Mara, who is coming into her own after breakout turns in The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Mara continues to be repped by WME. She followed those films by starring with Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Steven Soderbergh-directed S…

EXCLUSIVE: Dreamworks has set Nikolaj Arcel to direct Rebecca, a remake of the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film. The picture, which has a script draft by Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight, is being produced by Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Arcel is coming off A Royal Affair, a film that was Oscar…

Last year, the New York Film Critics Circle moved out ahead of the film critics awards pack by doling out their awards on November 28. It was a controversial move, jumping the National Board Of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics because even though they delayed the vote one day to November 29 to see The Girl With…

This is sure to be generating some high-fives over at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. In a nice marketing touch, the DVD for Columbia Pictures’ David Fincher-directed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that hit the street this week has been packaged to look like a burned (re: pirated) disc, complete with the…

If you think that The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was a hit, then talk to MGM Holdings CEO Gary Barber. His company co-financed the film, and although it has generated about $231M at worldwide box offices he tells investors who own MGM’s unlisted shares that “it is below our expectations and we booked a modest loss.&#8221…

TUESDAY UPDATE: WME’s Adam Isaacs, Dave Wirtschafter, and Brandt Joel signed Noomi Rapace who stars in Prometheus on June 8th. Now the actress should leave her management Magnolia Entertainment. MARCH 13TH EXCLUSIVE: The original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Noomi Rapace has left UTA, according to rival agencies. When U…