Film: Check Out Rooney Mara As Lisbeth Salander

I may be the only person on the planet who hasn’t read any books in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series written by Steig Larsson, but even I know they’re currently at the summit of pop culture these days. The first book in the series is being adapted by The Social Network director David Fincher and stars Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, the computer hacker heroine of Dragon Tattoo.

Mara is on the cover of February’s W Magazine in her Lisbeth Salander get-up. The article on the film reveals some major changes in the upcoming film:

The script, which captures the novel’s bleak tone (its original Swedish title was Men Who Hate Women), was written by Academy Award winner Steven Zaillian, who wrote Schindler’s List, and it departs rather dramatically from the book. Blomkvist is less promiscuous, Salander is more aggressive, and, most notably, the ending—the resolution of the drama—has been completely changed.

Peep more photos of Mara as Lisbeth below.

Film: Broadcast News Comes To The Criterion Collection

Things like this make life beautiful.

One of my favorite movies as a kid was Broadcast News. No bullshit. I mean, as you know, I’ve always been a big film nerd and when this romantic comedy about the behind-the-scenes shenanigans of a D.C. news station came out, garnered amazing reviews, and multiple Oscar nominations, I knew I had to give it a look-see. Plus, I always identified with Albert Brooks‘ character. He was the friggin’ man, man.

On Tuesday, January 25, James L. Brooks‘ seminal Broadcast News is being released on DVD and Blu-Ray by The Criterion Collection. I plan on making it my first Criterion Blu-Ray; I cannot wait.

From the Criterion Collection’s website:

Since the 1970s, the name James L. Brooks has been synonymous with intelligent television comedy—his shows are insightful about work and love and always plugged in to the zeitgeist. He is also a master storyteller of the big screen, and none of his films was more quintessentially Brooks than Broadcast News. This caustic look inside the Washington news media stars Holly Hunter, in her breakout role, as a feisty television producer torn between an ambitious yet dim anchorman (William Hurt) and her closest confidant, a cynical veteran reporter (Albert Brooks). Brooks’s witty, gently prophetic film is a captivating transmission from an era in which ideas on relationships and the media were rapidly changing.