The Girl Who Played with Fire, the Swedish movie based on the second novel in the Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson (Vintage, $15.95, 9780307454553/030745455X), opens this Friday, July 2.
By the way, for a hilarious takeoff on the series, see Nora Ephron's "The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut" in the current edition of the New Yorker.
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Don Most (Happy Days, The Last Best Sunday, Moola) will direct Exposed Memories, adapted from an autobiography by Gianni Bozzacchi, "a street kid who became personal photographer to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton," Variety reported. Joey Tayler, co-author of Exposed Memories (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), will write the screenplay.
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Deadline.com observed that "Columbia conveys a lot with a little in this teaser trailer for the David Fincher-directed and Aaron Sorkin-scripted The Social Network, with Zombieland's Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg." The film, which debuts October 1, is based on Ben Mezrich’s book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal.
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The first full-length trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows--part one of which hits theaters in November--"features the massive epic quality one would hope for from such a grand finale," MTV.com reported.