Opening in theaters on February 10th is the new crime drama from director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) called Rampart. The film features an extremely talented cast of actors including Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt), Ice Cube (Boyz n the Hood), Robin Wright (Forest Gump), Ben Foster (The Mechanic), Anne Heche (Wag the Dog), Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City 2), Sigourney Weaver (The Ice Storm), Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), and Ned Beatty (Network). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had a chance to sit down with director Oren Moverman, actresses Anne Heche, and Brie Larson, and actor/producer Ben Foster to discuss their work on Rampart. They discussed the new film, the real-life events that it was loosely based on, the decision to tell the story fictionally, Moverman's vision for the project, Woody Harrelson's powerhouse performance, Heche's character's odd family situation, and Foster's choice to produce the movie in addition to acting in it. 

Given the global popularity of the novel by Stieg Larsson, the marketing for the upcoming adaptation The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo could probably consist of some dudes wearing sandwich board signs saying "David Fincher made a new version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" and the movie would probably still do really well.  Sony has not gone that route, however, and the marketing for this film has been appropriately stylish, unique, and generally just really cool.  Another new poster, for example, doesn't just put the standard floating heads above a title, but interestingly presents Rooney Mara's Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig's Mikael Blomkvist with an arresting graphic approach and the fairly ominous tagline, "What Was Hidden in the Snow Comes Forth in the Thaw."

Last week, we shared a gaggle of images showing Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in director David Fincher's take on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  Those official stills demonstrate Fincher's unconventionally artful and exceedingly distinctive approach to selling the film, putting these two characters front and center in evocative, meticulously created visuals.  A new batch of pictures has arrived online today, and Craig appears in only one as journalist Mikael Blomkvist.  Instead, this set is focused on Mara as Lisbeth Salander, and rightly so.

While Blomkvist has plenty to do in the story, the American printing of Stieg Larsson's novel posited Salander as the title character for a reason.  She's the big draw, the character who makes the greatest impression, and the one on whose shoulders the whole endeavor lives or dies.  This new take on the novel could get a lot wrong, so long as it gets Lisbeth right.  Fincher, in his inimitable style, is going for broke with Lisbeth, and her look certainly makes a big impact, amply conveying the extent to which she does not give a shit what anybody thinks of her.

The first trailer for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the American take on Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson's hugely popular novel, was like a kick to the solar plexus, a visceral scream of promotion that could very well induce epileptic fits.  In that trailer, release way back in June, the title character Lisbeth Salander, played by Rooney Mara, was almost like bigfoot, appearing only fleetingly.  A new, almost four-minute long extended trailer for David Fincher's take on the material, however, kicks off with Mara's Salander and gives a thorough idea of her approach to the character. Basically, she seems thoroughly badass, undoubtedly brilliant, and borderline autistic.

It also establishes Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist whose investigation into the wealthy Vanger family eventually teams him with Salander and leads to no end of trouble for both characters.  Representing the Vangers is Christopher Plummer, being every shade of ominous.  All of this set to what promises to be a great sophomore score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the Oscar winning duo who composed the accompaniment to Fincher's The Social Network.

If an endlessly compelling, Oscar-caliber movie can be made about the founding of facebook, then why can't a movie about baseball statistics be dramatically involving and even inspiring, especially when one of the writer is Aaron Sorkin, who won his first Academy Award for his The Social Network screenplay?  Oh, and the other writer is Schindler's List Oscar winner Steve Zaillian?  For Moneyball, that high profile combination is buoyed the presence of Brad Pitt, playing real-life Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, who championed a new statistical system for evaluating ballplayers and assembling rosters.

The UK trailer for the film, which is inspired by a true story, sticks to the tried-and-true formula established by the first and second domestic trailers, but throws in some new footage and drops a reference to Fabio.  But seriously, it's a damn fine piece of trailer-making, just like its predecessors, and it might even just make the film appealing to the cricket-loving Brits.  Maybe.

Director David Fincher has always given his films a very specific look, and even though the dank, grimy settings that are so associated with his work don't show up in a film like The Social Network, it seems Fincher will always have a place in his heart dark, unclean locales.  Sony has released three crystal clear new images from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, based on the international bestseller and all around literary phenomenon by the late Stieg Larsson, and one of them shows a vintage Fincher environment.

The second still has Daniel Craig striking a pose in a location that looks straight out of Alien 3, Fincher's first feature (which he disowned due to studio interference).  The first one has Craig and Christopher Plummer in a suitably dark spot, while the last features Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander looking like a living embodiment of the director's methodically assaultive style.

Sony has unveiled two new images from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, both of which feature Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist and one one which features a besocked Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander, the take-no-prisoners hacker, investigator, and girl who happens to have a dragon tattoo.  Also included in the batch of images was a still of Mara that debuted online last Friday.

Last week, Colombia Pictures continued what so far has been a slow and steady marketing campaign for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, dropping 18 character profiles, each of which included a new image, and also offering up a first listen of the score by The Social Network composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.  With the summer movie season coming to an inauspicious end, expect the pop-cultural ubiquity of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to escalate in the build-up to the movie's December release.

Considering that the yellow and green paperback edition of Stieg Larsson's worldwide bestseller is still a ubiquitous presence on all forms of public transportation, you might already be familiar with the cast of characters in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  Nonetheless, Sony Pictures has kindly supplied character breakdowns and images for 18 of the characters in David Fincher's American adaptation of the novel, which was previously made into a Swedish film by director Niels Arden Oplev.  Amongst the characters included in this plethora of profiles are Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, played by Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, who conspicuously lacks eyebrows in the film.

Hey, remember that awesome trailer for Moneyball that dropped back in June?  You know, the one with Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager and Jonah Hill as analyst Peter Brand, who sells Beane on a new statistical system of judging players and thusly of putting together a team at all?  It also included a formidable cast and pretty pictures composed by Wally Pfister, Christopher Nolan's go-to cinematographer?  If you've forgotten, or even if you haven't, then you're in luck, as there's a brand new Moneyball trailer, and it's basically an extended version of the first one.  Here you'll find all the aforementioned elements, plus a little bit more.

A film based on a true story about baseball statistics might sound a bit boring, but the first trailer for Moneyball is anything but dry.  In this adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller by Michael Lewis, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, the Oakland A's general manager who helped kickstart a new statistical model for measuring performance and drafting players accordingly.  The film boasts a top notch cast, including Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathryn Morris, Robin Wright, and Chris Pratt, with a script by two of the best writers around: Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian.