Though it's been an overall critical success and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo isn't exactly shattering the box office. Granted, it is a very adult-oriented R-rated murder mystery filled with graphic content.
While it will eventually make back the $90 million it took to make it, the film's lackluster performance ($72 million worldwide) let some wondering if Sony would move forward with adapting the next Girl movie, The Girl Who Played With Fire.
A Sony rep informed Entertainment Weekly that The Girl Who Played with Fire remains on target for a late 2013 release. Dragon Tattoo leads Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig are already signed on to reprise their roles as Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist.
Dragon Tattoo writer Steve Zaillian is in the early stage of scripting Fire, which Fincher has the option to direct. Though the Oscar-nominated director has not committed to the project, he said that if he were to sign on, he would prefer to shoot both Fire and the third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, back-to-back for both practical and artistic purposes.
Meanwhile, Paramount's plan to make a fourth Paranormal Activity movie comes as less of a surprise. Though no plot has been revealed, the Paranormal franchise has been Paramount's annual sure thing, grossing almost $300 million domestically and $573 million worldwide. The budget for the trilogy has been a combined $8 million.
Paranormal Activity 3 took the prequel route, so there's no telling where this fourth movie would go. What should the plot for Paranormal Activity 4 be?
