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Pierce Brosnan Praises “Magnificent” Daniel Craig in ‘Skyfall’; Talks Romance in ‘Love Is All You Need’

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Pierce Brosnan might have turned in his license to kill, but that’s not stopping him from talking Bond, James Bond.

Yahoo! Movies caught up with the 59-year-old actor in Manhattan to discuss his latest starring role, in Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier’s charming romcom “Love Is All You Need,” opening Friday. The Irishman plays an embittered widower that gets a second chance at love with a cancer survivor (Trine Dyrholm) when they meet at their children’s Italian wedding.

But, ever the gentleman, Brosnan graciously switched gears and discussed his years as Bond, where he fit in the 007 pantheon — and seeing “Skyfall” for the first time. [Read more…]

DVD Cover: “The Stieg Larsson Trilogy/The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

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Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tatto, Noomi Rapaci

The GIRL with the Dragon Tattoo

I am so beating a dead horse here, but this is what the ad for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo should look like. It should be dominated by THE GIRL. Not that the story doesn’t interlace men and women, good and bad and mixed.

Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The boy who rescued the girl with the dragon tattoo

EW Cover: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”

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Rooney Mara, Daniel Craig, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The girl wrapped around the guy who plays Bond

This cover is exactly what I’ve been afraid of ever since I heard that David Fincher was making the American version of the Swedish best sellers. How very dare he subordinate the girl to the he-man? The title of the books is THE GIRL with the dragon tattoo, and Lisbeth Salander is the main character, the through line. She is definitely no ingenue! I read the first book when it came out in America, and then was so impatient that I ordered the next two from Amazon UK. Her story is a shocking journey that ranges from the highly personal to a scandal capable of taking down a corrupt government. Salander does not need to clutch at the chest of a man, as she’s represented here. My concern has always been that she was too much woman for Fincher to handle. International audiences have been eating her character up; will Hollywood smother her in ketchup, add ground beefcake, and insists it tastes the same?