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And we continue to pile on the pre-afm goodies, this time with the sales trailer for the upcoming Swedish thriller Gone, or Försvunnen for you wacky bastids who like trying to pronounce stuff!

Below you'll find the first trailer and the previously released official imagery from Mattias Olsson and Henrik Jp Åkesson's Gone (Försvunnen), which has a release date of 26 August 2011 in Sweden. The flick stars Sofia Ledarp (The Girl Who Played With Fire), Kjell Bergqvist, and Björn Kjellman.

Synopsis

A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her. Before she knows it, she has been kidnapped and brought to a basement somewhere deep in the forest. Nobody knows she is gone,...

Premiering at the forthcoming Afm is Mattias Olsson and Henrik Jp Åkesson's Swedish thriller Gone (Försvunnen), which stars Sofia Ledarp (The Girl Who Played With Fire), Kjell Bergqvist and Björn Kjellman. Just in time for the market we got our hands on the first trailer that looks quite promising. Enjoy it inside. "A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road-trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her. Before she knows it she has been kidnapped and brought to a basement somewhere deep in the forest. Nobody knows she is gone and nobody is coming to save her. She has nobody to count on but herself."...

Yet more goodies from the Swedish terror tale Gone have graced our offices, so of course it's time to share. Why? Because we dig you cats. Feast your eyes, kids!

Below you'll find the first official imagery from Mattias Olsson and Henrik Jp Åkesson's Swedish thriller Gone (Försvunnen), which has a release date of 26 August 2011 in Sweden. The flick stars Sofia Ledarp (The Girl Who Played With Fire), Kjell Bergqvist, and Björn Kjellman.

For many, many more pics click here, here, and here!

Synopsis

A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her. Before she knows it, she has been kidnapped and brought to a basement somewhere deep in the forest.

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Below you'll find the first official imagery from Mattias Olsson and Henrik Jp Åkesson's Swedish thriller Gone (Försvunnen), which has a release date of 26 August 2011 in Sweden. The flick stars Sofia Ledarp (The Girl Who Played With Fire), Kjell Bergqvist, and Björn Kjellman.

For many, many more pics click here, here, and here!

Synopsis

A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her.

Premiering at the forthcoming Cannes market/festival is Mattias Olsson and Henrik Jp Åkesson's Swedish thriller Gone (Försvunnen), which stars Sofia Ledarp (The Girl Who Played With Fire), Kjell Bergqvist and Björn Kjellman. "A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road-trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her. Before she knows it she has been kidnapped and brought to a basement somewhere deep in the forest. Nobody knows she is gone and nobody is coming to save her. She has nobody to count on but herself." Inside you'll find an exclusive image, along with two others, while you'll find thousands of behind-the-scenes pics here, here, and here. Thousands.

The Swedish thriller Gone is making an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival this year and we've got an image and some details to share with you. the film is directed by Mattias Olsson and Henrik Jp Åkesson and stars Sofia Ledarp, Kjell Bergqvist and Björn Kjellman. A young woman, Malin, has recently been through a family trauma. She decides to leave her home town of Karlskrona to start a new life in one of the northern towns of Sweden. During her long road-trip she encounters a mysterious man who starts following her. Before she knows it she has been kidnapped and brought to a basement somewhere deep in the forest. Nobody knows she is gone and nobody is coming to save her. She has nobody to count on but herself. Stay tuned for more details as they come in!

This is the review of The Girl Who Played With Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden), directed by Daniel Alfredson, starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp and Georgi Staykov, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson. Reviewed by Pure Movies writer Suki Ferguson. The Girl Who Played With Fire occupies a slightly uneasy place in the Millennium trilogy, in that it is based on arguably the weakest novel in the saga and primarily serves to set up the more intense dramas of the third installment. Given that the first film, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, gave away Played With Fire’s key plot point (that, as a child, Lisbeth Salandar torched her abusive father and was incarcerated for it), there is a distinct loss of suspense. Perhaps viewers who have not read the series will not find this a problem, but this change fails to improve upon the source material.

Directed by: Daniel Alfredson

Written by: Stieg Larsson, Ulf Ryberg

Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin, Jacob Ericksson, Sofia Ledarp, Anders Ahlbom, Micke Spreitz, Georgi Staykov, Mirja Turestedt

You'd think there's nothing worse than build-up without climax. Except there is - a build-down without climax - the senile breed of story that seem to start somewhere and meander to nowhere.

The final Swedish film adaptation of the Millennium Trilogy by author Steig Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest suffers from the same disability, limping anemically to anti-climax for around two hours of its 148-minute length. It's a gorgeously rendered double-stuff serving of denouement.

Lack of a professional hand is not the problem with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Daniel Alfredson, director of the trilogy's second installment, uses a Nasa-sized budget to piece together as shiny and taut a strip of film as fans might hope.

This is the first trailer for The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin, Jacob Ericksson, Sofia Ledarp, Anders Ahlbom and Micke Spreitz. Under police guard in hospital, Lisbeth Salander is charged with murder and awaits the trial that has the country gripped. Cut off from all communication with the outside world, she must rely on journalist and former lover, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) to prove her innocence and expose the political cover up that threatens to destroy her freedom. In his way stands a mysterious group who will go to any lengths to keep the shocking truth of their actions a secret. The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest is directed by Daniel Alfredson and released across the UK on 26 November.

Chicago – Now that the third and final installment of Stieg Larsson’s posthumously published, phenomenally popular book series has been turned into a feature film, the questions emerges: ‘Was it worth it?’ To the worldwide box office and the creatively bankrupt Hollywood, of course it was. But were moviegoers truly satisfied by the experience?

Rating: 3.0/5.0

I wasn’t, but that’s not to say I didn’t admire aspects of the pictures, particularly the mesmerizing, star-making performance from Noomi Rapace as the titular “Girl.” Her magnetic presence elevates each film whenever she’s onscreen, which is not nearly long enough. After the enticing first tale, “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” developed the relationship between two fascinating characters who teamed up to solve crimes, the next two installments frustrate on multiple levels. The characters that audiences loved to see work together are kept apart the entire time at stagnant ends of an exposition-laden puzzle.

Momentum Pictures have unveiled an new UK trailer for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the final installment of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest was directed by Daniel Afredson and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp, Jacob Ericksson, Georgi Staykov and Annika Hallin.

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

Check out the brand new UK trailer below, courtesy of LoveFilm:

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest will be released nationwide on November 26.

This is a clip from The Girl Who Played With Fire, directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp and Georgi Staykov. The film, like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is an adaptation of the Steig Larsson novel. The new film sees Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation. Having served his prison sentence, Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring.

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Directed by: Daniel Alfredson

Cast: Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Micke Spreitz

Running Time: 2 hrs 4 mins

Rating: R

Release Date: July 9, 2010 (limited)

Plot: This is based on the novel by Stieg Larsson, and the second book in the Millenium series. It’s been about a year and the computer-hacker, Lisbeth (Rapace) is now accused of a crime and journalist Mikael (Nyqvist) attempts to help her. Plus, things are revealed about Lisbeth’s past.

Who’S It For? Make sure you read the first book or see the first movie, to fully understand this one. It deals with her involvement with Nils Bjurman and to fully feel the impact, the first movie needs to be seen.

Expectations: I’m a big fan of the Sweeden version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Sure, I’m interested to see the eventual American adaptations, but I love...

This is the trailer for The Girl Who Played With Fire, directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp and Georgi Staykov. The film, like The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is an adaptation of the Steig Larsson novel. The new film sees Lisbeth Salander and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation. Having served his prison sentence, Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring.

We put up a brand new UK poster last week and today we’ve been sent the brand new UK trailer for the sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden)

along with the new onehseet poster and some images.

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo comes the sequel, The Girl Who Played With Fire.

The new film sees Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) and crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) once again caught up in a brutal murder investigation. Having served his prison sentence, Blomkvist returns to Millennium intent on exposing a billion dollar sex trafficking ring.

When two of his researchers are murdered, Salander is framed for the murders and emerges as the police’s chief suspect. Unconvinced, Blomkvist attempts to track her down and find out the truth. But secretive hacker...

Remember that awesome movie, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo? It was a book written by Stieg Larsson from a series of ‘The Girl….’ books.

Empire have just released a new poster for the second book which is called The Girl Who Played with Fire which is directed by Daniel Alfredson and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Lena Endre, Sofia Ledarp and Georgi Staykov.

The movie is due out in the UK 26th November.

Chicago – In our latest crime/mystery edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-one passes up for grabs for the new film “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”! The film, which is based on the international best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson, opens on March 19, 2010.

“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” stars Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson, Ingvar Hirdwall, Marika Lagercrantz, Björn Granath, Ewa Fröling, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Annika Hallin, Sofia Ledarp, Tomas Köhler and David Dencik from director

Niels Arden Oplev and writers Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg.

This screening will take place on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. To win your free “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” movie pass courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it!

The movie poster for “The Girl With the Dragon...

Toronto International Film Festival

TORONTO -- Characterized by an often wrenching, occasionally frustrating sense of dread, "To Love Someone" suggests that abusive relationships are impossible to escape even in the best of circumstances. Convincingly acted and compelling despite its flaws, the film could be well-received in arthouses but will have to struggle against its uninviting subject matter.

The plot's sad triangle consists of Lena and two husbands: her ex, Hannes, who beat her so severely he was imprisoned, and Alf, the bearish, adoring older man who has finally brought some stability to her life.

The film reveals immediately that this stability is about to end, with a bracketing sequence in which Alf visits the park where Lena's ashes were scattered. This foreknowledge gives the action a tragic inexorability, with viewers fairly certain they know what's in store; the inevitable result is more difficult to consider since no one involved wants it -- not even Hannes, who has confronted his demons in a prison therapy program and sincerely intends to avoid all contact with Lena upon his release.

In fact, their eventual reunion isn't his fault. Lena happens to see Hannes on the street shortly after he is paroled and, terrified that he's stalking her, decides to spy on him. While the audience silently begs her not to, she takes a step more -- confronting him angrily, even as he begs her to stay away. Without meaning to, she goads him, starting a no-win cycle in which each struggles to prove the trouble between them is dead and buried. Within days, Lena finds herself unable to stay away from him.

Her growing compulsion is difficult to watch, and Sofia Ledarp makes it pathetically believable, forcing the audience to confront a battered-wife syndrome most viewers probably find difficult to believe in the real world. "I don't know what I'm doing," she cries repeatedly in one wrenching scene. Her behavior alters the men who love her, as well -- particularly Alf, whose incomprehension drives him to the brink of violence.

The course of Lena's behavior is gripping, even when we're unable to follow it as a psychological path. As things develop, though, screenwriter Kim Fupz Aakeson feels the need to put viewers off balance, hinting that Lena's fate isn't going to play out quite as we expect. Some of the possibilities opened up are plausible, but in the end this turn feels cheap and a little dishonest, particularly given director Ake Sandgren's choices (like using Vivaldi instead of a more conventional heavy-drama score) to focus on the cast's fine performances rather than on suspense-minded contrivances.

TO LOVE SOMEONE

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Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB

Credits:

Director: Ake Sandgren

Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson

Producer: Lars G. Lindstrom

Executive producer: Kim Magnusson

Director of photography: Erik Molberg Hansen

Music: Antonio Vivaldi, Magnus Jarlbo

Co-producers: Film i Vast, Sveriges Television AB

Editor: Asa Mossberg

Cast:

Lena: Sofia Ledarp

Hannes: Jonas Karlsson

Alf: Rolf Lassgard

Mia: Camila Larsson

Bjorn: Gustav Hammarsten

Hasse: Mats Blomgrenh

Running time -- 91 minutes

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