The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film based on the 2005 novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as hacker Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomvist’s investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. The film premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London on December 12, 2011.

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Summary The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 psychological crime thriller film based on the 2005 novel by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was directed by David Fincher with a screenplay by Steven Zaillian. Starring Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as hacker Lisbeth Salander, it tells the story of Blomvist’s investigation to find out what happened to a woman from a wealthy family who disappeared 40 years prior. The film premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London on December 12, 2011. It grossed USD 232. 6 million on a USD 90 million budget and received highly positive reviews from critics, who praised Craig and Mara’s performances as well as the film’s somber tone. It won numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, while Mara’s performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It is a co-production of the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Sony Pictures Entertainment began development on the film in 2009. It took the company a few months to obtain the rights to the novel, while also recruiting Zaillian and Fincer. The casting process for the lead roles was exhaustive and intense; Craig faced scheduling conflicts. The script took over six months to write, which included three months of analyzing the novel. The movie was chosen by National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2011 and was a candidate for numerous awards.

It has been released in the UK, the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands. The U.K. and Sweden have yet to release the film, but it is expected to be released in Australia in the fall of 2013. The UK has not yet released the film; it is scheduled for release in the United Kingdom in the spring of 2014. The US has not released it; the UK is scheduled to release it in the summer of 2014, and the UK in the autumn of 2015. The United States has not release it yet; the US will release it on September 14, 2014. It will be followed by the UK and Australia in September 2015, and then the Netherlands in September 2016. It opens in Australia on September 21, 2015. It also opens in the Netherlands on September 28, 2016. The American release date is September 29, 2016, and it opens in New Zealand on September 30, 2017, and elsewhere in the world on September 31, 2018, and in South Africa on September 27, 2018. The Australian release date was September 28. It opened in the US on September 26, 2017 and in Europe on October 27, 2008, and other countries on October 28, 2008. It ends on October 31, 2009, and is released in South Korea on October 30, 2010, and Australia on October 29, 2011, and Canada on October 26, 2010. The British release date for the film is September 28 and October 31.