The “aloof” one, Rooney Mara, is backpedalling on comments she made in Allure about her early work on Law & Order: SVU. Not surprisingly, Rooney says her words were taken out of context. And, of course, insists that SVU is the greatest and that her experience on it was the greatest. Also, she’s a victim. Full Story

Click here if you missed yesterday’s article about why the self-described “aloof” Rooney Mara is so f-cking annoying. You know what that says about a person? The person who calls herself “aloof”? The person who calls herself “aloof” spends a lot of time contemplating her own perceived “aloofness”. Full Story

I read a quote from Rooney Mara today on Celebitchy from her interview with Allure and I thought to myself - you cannot possibly be this annoying already. So I went the Allure article to see for myself and, indeed, she really is that annoying already. Full Story

Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig premiered The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in London tonight, beginning their carpet tour towards the film’s opening on December 21. Reviews for the film are embargoed until tomorrow. But last week there was a big ass drama over the release of The New Yorker’s - a positive one - a full week before the date, which was agreed upon with the studio before the screening. Full Story

Rooney Mara, who is the US Lisbeth Salander, and Mia Wasikowska, who could have been the US Lisbeth Salander, were both at the CFDA Awards last night. Which reminds me of this article I posted last week about Rooney saying she didn’t think the other girls who were rumoured for the part were exactly right for the part either and my corresponding paragraph about that strange Hollywood reality:There it is. Full Story

Daniel Craig was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly in the summer for Cowboys & Aliens and his pants action was piss poor. Click here for a refresher. This time it’s for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. MUCH better. As we build towards the film’s release, we are now getting more and more access to its centrepiece Lisbeth Salander played by Rooney Mara. Full Story

Ryan Gosling is.This is Ryan in Austin on Friday shooting Lawless with Rooney Mara. Lawless is a Terrence Malick movie. Ryan is the lead. Supporting cast in addition to the aforementioned Mara: Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. Um, not bad. And obviously he couldn’t say no. Ryan revealed recently that acting is his first priority. Full Story

In the November issue of Vogue.It’s Rooney Mara AND her creator David Fincher. Yes. I said creator. Read the article and see if you don’t feel the same way afterwards. One of the BEST Vogue celebrity profiles in a LONG, LONG time. So much better than the generic and safe Sarah Jessica Parker/Jennifer Garner/Jessica Biel pieces we get all the f-cking time in fashion magazines that don’t offer anything insightful, provocative, or, more appropriately, because it is a FASHION magazine after all, stylish. Full Story

How is it already the end of September? David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is due out in just three months. We’ll start to see the buzz build for it soon especially now that a second trailer has been released. And it’s long! Almost 4 minutes. Right off the top, the score for this film . Full Story

The other day, the first trailer for the film was bootlegged online. I like it more and more every time I watch. The clip is now legal, I’ve attached below. Now they’ve released an international poster. It hasn’t gone over as well as the video, at least not for me. I’m not sure Blomkvist is supposed to be Lisbeth’s protector. Full Story

The last time I wrote about David Fincher’s adaptation for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in a post from May 11th, this was the final line of the article: “Lately I’ve been wondering about the soundtrack. Know nothing about it, but for some reason, am really really looking forward to it. Full Story

People who make movies can do amazing things. This was the scene in Stockholm, Sweden on Friday where David Fincher was back on location shooting The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo For America. They had to spray the streets with…whatever it is they use…to make it look like snow. To me it looks like snow. Full Story

Filming on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo has moved to London. Here’s Rooney Mara on a smoke break yesterday in costume. Feeling more optimistic about the American imagining of the story? After the Oscars, where everyone thought David Fincher would take Best Director, I kinda feel bad that the Academy seems to have it in the sh-ts for both him and Christopher Nolan. Full Story

It’s Rooney Mara, the girl who beat everyone to become The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. In Stockholm yesterday preparing for the role. She’s supposed to speak with a Swedish accent. So I guess she’s starting to practise. I can see it a little, I guess, in her face – that wounded animal expression about her, a reticence in her eyes, the look of a forever child. Full Story