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A mediocre turn-out at the box office won’t stop The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from getting a sequel.

Fans of the Stieg Larsson book series can look forward to a movie adaptation of The Girl Who Played With Fire, the second novel in the trilogy, Sony has confirmed.

The script will be penned by Steven Zaillian, who also wrote the first movie.

While stars Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig are expected to return, it’s not yet known whether director David Fincher will be on board.

A rep for Sony tells The Wrap the filmmaker has its blessing to helm the picture.

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The February Vanity Fair cover features three of Hollywood’s biggest leading men – Daniel Craig, George Clooney and Matt Damon.

It also contains their responses to a questionnaire, including some very funny answers passed along by The Huffington Post.

In fact, noted joker Clooney might give the tamest responses, saying, for instance, that “working in the Sudan” in his “greatest achievement.”

Damon and Craig are a bit friskier, at least in the excerpts.

Damon:

When and where were you happiest? In our bed, making our children, and in the hospital watching them being born.

What is your motto? “Don’t be a d-bag.”

Craig:

What is your most marked characteristic? My third nipple.

What is the quality you most like in a man? A good mustache.

What is the quality you most like in a woman? A good mustache.

What is your most treasured possession? Apart from my penis and my health?

Good to know!

The issue hits newsstands this week.

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Here’s a list from the beginning to the end of 2011 of the year’s biggest weddings!

1. Shania Twain and Frédéric Thiébaud

The pair kicked off the new year by making it official in Puerto Rico. It was a happy ending for the couple, who got together after their former spouses, Mutt Lange and Marie-Anne Thiebaud, reportedly had an affair.

2. Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh

On February 25, just weeks after finalizing his divorce from Camille Grammer, the “Boss” star married Walsh at the Longacre Theater on Broadway. The couple then threw a lavish reception at the Plaza Hotel.

3. Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth

On March 26, the actress and her agent beau tied the knot at her estate in Ojai, California in front 125 guests, including Scarlett Johansson, Sean Penn, Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger.

4. LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian

The couple exchanged vows in Malibu on April 22 in front of just 40 guests. It was the second marriage for both Cibrian and Rimes, who were married to others when they began their romance on the set of the Lifetime movie Northern Lights.

5. Prince William and Kate Middleton

Americans voluntarily woke up before 5 a.m. on April 29 to watch the Royal Wedding of William and Kate. Highlights included Kate’s stunning Alexander McQueen wedding gown, her sister Pippa’s now-famous derriere, and Princess Beatrice’s gaudy fascinator.

6. Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz

In late June, the pair secretly tied the knot in New York before just four guests. They got together after Weisz split from director Darren Aronofsky last November.

7. Kate Moss and Jamie Hince

The supermodel and rocker got hitched in Gloucestershire, England on July 1 in front of stars such as Stella McCartney, Naomi Campbell and Jude Law.

8. Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo

The duo wed at Richard Branson’s private Necker Island on July 15. The nuptials were televised as “Nick & Vanessa’s Dream Wedding” on TLC.

9. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries

Kardashian and Humphries married on August 20 in front of approximately 500 of their closest pals for a televised E! special. Just 72 days later, she filed for divorce.

10. Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller

The comedian married his longtime love at a vineyard in Sonoma, California on October 2. Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd,Craig Robinson, Adam Sandler, Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann attended the nuptials.

11. Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell

The Beatle and New York businesswoman said “I do” at London’s Old Marylebone Town Hall on October 9. They later celebrated at his London estate with a slew of celebrity guests, such as Ringo Starr, Kate Moss and Twiggy

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James Bond may work for the government, but Daniel Craig is no fan of politicians.

The actor blasts Tony Blair and other politicos in a new interview with Men’s Journal.

“Politicians are sh*theads,” says Craig. “That’s how they become politicians, even good ones. We’re actors, we’re artists, we’re very nice to each other. They’ll turn around and stab you in the f*cking back.”

He says of the former British Prime Minister, “Tony Blair started it much more than anybody’s ever done.”

“Go and have tea at 10 Downing Street,” says Craig. “It becomes Mephisto,” referring to the novel and film about a German actor who ingratiates himself with the Nazi Party. “You immediately are aligning yourself with a political party.”

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Of course, Craig’s brutal honesty isn’t reserved for politicians.

He recently called out the Kardashians for behaving like “f**king idiots” for cash.

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James Bond is a neat freak?

That’s what the Daily Mail claims, alleging that Daniel Craig “refused to get into costume to film a swimming-pool scene” at the Four Seasons hotel in London because it was “too dirty.”

A so-called “source” says the actor, shooting the new Bond film Skyfall, said the gym was “dirty and untidy” and “refused to get into costume until it was cleaned.”

So is the rough-and-tumble action star really a locker room diva?

Not exactly.

A rep for Craig tells Gossip Cop the gym story is “entirely fabricated,” adding that the film company also calls the rumor “utterly false.”

We already know that Craig isn’t afraid to speak his mind for real, but outlets need not invent “dirty” rumors.

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New footage from the highly anticipated thriller, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, has been released via “Entertainment Tonight.”

In the clip below, Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander) gets tattooed, beats up a man on an escalator, and sizes up Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist).

RELATED – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Extended, 8 Minute Trailer

The video also features Mara and Craig talking about their characters.

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A big rumor today claims that Kris Jenner is “demanding” an apology from Daniel Craig for comments the actor recently made about her family.

While discussing fame and reality television in an interview with British GQ, Craig suggested that the Kardashians behave like “f***ing idiot[s].”

Now, Heat magazine says Jenner is blasting Craig for “crossing the line.”

“It’s not made him look like the world’s nicest guy,” the “momager” supposedly told the outlet. “The right thing for a real man to do now would be to issue a public apology.”

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According to dozens of sources that have reprinted these alleged Heat quotes, Jenner added, “The easy thing would be to criticize his career now, but our family won’t stoop to that level.”

It turns out the “stooping” here was done by Heat.

A rep for Jenner tells Gossip Cop the story is “100 percent NOT TRUE.”

We’re told Heat “just made up that whole article.”

Gossip Cop has reached out to Heat for comment.

In the meantime, maybe the outlet should work on its reporting before it tries to start celebrity feuds.

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There’s a new, extended 8-minute preview for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.

This trailer takes viewers even deeper into the adaptation’s world of murky motives and dark secrets than previous teasers.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opens on December 21.

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He might like his martinis shaken, but James Bond doesn’t mind stirring things up when it comes to the Kardashians.

Daniel Craig blasts the reality TV clan in the January 2012 edition of British GQ, slamming the family for selling their privacy for profit.

The actor, whose marriage to Rachel Weisz has been very low-key by celebrity standards, brings up the Kardashians in the larger context of modern reality-tabloid culture and its hypocrisies.

“I think there’s a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel,” he says. ”It’s not about being afraid to be public with your emotions or about who you are and what you stand for. But if you sell it off it’s gone.”

Craig explains, “You can’t buy it back – you can’t buy your privacy back. Ooh, I want to be alone. F*** you. We’ve been in your living room. We were at your birth. You filmed it for us and showed us the placenta and now you want some privacy?”

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star turns his attention to the family most associated with reality TV culture.

“Look at the Kardashians, they’re worth millions. I don’t think they were that badly off to begin with but now look at them,” says Craig.

He continues, “You see that and you think, ‘What, you mean all I have to do is behave like a f***ing idiot on television and then you’ll pay me millions. I’m not judging it – well, I am obviously.”

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Javier Bardem has confirmed that he’ll play the villain in Bond 23, the as-yet titled upcoming James Bond film, starring Daniel Craig as Agent 007.

In an interview with “Nightline” (video below) about his charity work with west Saharan refugees, Bardem noted he would be Bond’s bad guy.

“I am very excited. My parents took me to watch the movies and I saw all of them. So to play that is going to be fun,” he said.

He added, “They chose me to play this man, but I cannot give you many details.”

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Dolphin Tale flippered off Brad Pitt‘s Moneyball for the weekend box office crown.

Dolphin Tale took in $14.2 million, followed by Moneyball with a $12.5 million haul.

Coming in third was The Lion King 3D with $11.1 million in ticket sales.

The Joseph Gordon-Levitt cancer comedy 50/50, also starring Seth Rogen, and Courageous took a narrow fourth and fifth places with $8.9 million and $8.85 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Dream House, with Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz ($8.2 million), Abduction ($5.7 million), Anna Faris‘s romantic comedy What’s Your Number? ($5.6 million), Contagion ($5 million), and Killer Elite ($4.9 million).

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There’s now a full, extended trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, the highly-anticipated adaptation of the bestselling books.

Watch it below!

The movie, directed by David Fincher, stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, with music from Trent Reznor.

It opens in December.

Have you read the books? How do you think the film looks?

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Trent Reznor has released a preview of his score for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.

The musician won an Oscar for his last collaboration with director David Fincher (The Social Network), and the 7-minute Dragon Tattoo clip that’s now online makes it seem like Reznor will make a major mark on this project, too.

Take a listen below!

And if you just want to watch the awesome trailer again (featuring Reznor’s version of Led Zeppelin‘s “Immigrant Song”), that’s below, too.

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The Smurfs has tied Cowboys & Aliens for first place in a weekend box office upset.

The official winner won’t be declared until tomorrow morning.

Those little blue animated buggers and the Daniel Craig-Harrison Ford sci-fi western both banked $36.2 million.

Coming in third was Captain America: The First Avenger with $24.9 million.

Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Crazy, Stupid, Love took fourth and fifth places with $21.9 million and $19.3 million, respectively.

Rounding out the Top 10 were Friends With Benefits ($9.3 million), Horrible Bosses ($7.1 million), Transformers 3 ($5.9 million), Zookeeper ($4.2 million), and Cars 2 ($2.3 million).

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Harrison Ford holds a grudge.

The actor was visited in his “Jimmy Kimmel Live” dressing room by Star Wars pal Chewbacca, but apparently there’s some unfinished business between the two former friends.

“What are you doing here, you son of a b*tch?” growls Ford at the Wookiee. “You think you can walk in here and say you’re sorry after what you did?”

So what went down?

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The first full international trailer for Steven Spielberg‘s The Adventures of Tintin has come online.

Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell star in the motion-capture extravaganza, which is based on the beloved series of books.

Check out the video below!

We think it looks pretty cool. What do you think?

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will hit theaters on December 21.

Here’s a first look at the red band trailer for the film adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s bestseller, which was directed by David Fincher and stars Mara Rooney and Daniel Craig.

The fast-paced explicit trailer for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which promises to be the “Feel bad movie of Christmas,” is set to a Trent Reznor and Karen O cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.”

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Cowboys & Aliens, which finally brings together the Old West and extraterrestrial invaders, hits theaters this summer.

Directed by Iron Man‘s Jon Favreau, Cowboys & Aliens stars Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell.

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Javier Bardem has reportedly been offered a role in the next James Bond film opposite Daniel Craig.

It is believed Bardem would play a villain, reports Deadline.

Bardem clearly has a talent for evil characters. He won an Oscar for his murderous character in No Country For Old Men.

The as-yet titled 23rd Bond film, being directed by Sam Mendes, is slated for release on November 9, 2012.

While Bardem, recently nominated for an Academy Award for Biutiful, was offered the Bond role, there’s still no word as to whether he’ll accept the part.

A little more than a week ago, Bardem and wife Penelope Cruz welcomed a son.

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The 23rd James Bond movie, starring Daniel Craig as the iconic spy, will begin production later this year and hit theaters worldwide on November 9, 2012.

MGM’s official announcement comes after months of speculation about the future of the series.

Sam Mendes will direct.

The last Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, came out in 2008.

There is no title yet for the new film.

Are you looking forward to seeing Craig return as Bond?

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Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig were photographed holding hands in the English countryside this weekend, leading to renewed speculation that the two stars are dating.

They appear together on-screen in the upcoming Dream House.

Last month, Weisz and director Darren Aronofsky announced their separation after nine years together. The couple has a four-year-old son.

It is worth nothing that British papers (wrongly) reported last winter that Craig had secretly wed Satsuki Mitchell, based on misinterpreted photographs.

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Hey, somebody’s gotta do it.

Since Hollywood will inevitably make a film about newly arrested WikiLeaks honcho Julian Assange, Gossip Cop decided to get a jump start on casting.

Here are some of our top choices for the role of the world’s most famous leaker. Who do you think should get it? Who did we miss?

DANIEL CRAIG

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One of the biggest casting decisions of the year has been made.

Rooney Mara will play Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Mara beat out a roster brimming with some of Hollywood’s best-known young actresses to win the title role of the franchise based on Stieg Larsson‘s international bestsellers.

The film, also starring Daniel Craig, will be directed by David Fincher and due in theaters in 2011.

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And then there were four.

Multiple reports have the field of actresses competing for the role of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo down to Rooney Mara, Lea Seydoux, Sarah Snook and Sophie Lowe.

The buzz around the quartet of relative unknowns replaces earlier speculation that an A-list actress would wind up as Stieg Larsson‘s hacker heroine.

Among the major actresses thought (at one point) to be candidates for the role: Natalie Portman, Ellen Page, Carey Mulligan and Kristen Stewart.

Earlier this week, Daniel Craig was cast as journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

The film, to be directed by David Fincher, comes out in December 2011.

Gossip Cop will have confirmation when the Salander decision is finalized.

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Daniel Craig will star as journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

The deal includes options for The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest, which complete Stieg Larsson‘s trilogy.

David Fincher is directing.

Fincher and producers have still not picked an actress to take the starring role of Lisbeth Salander. Carey Mulligan took herself out of the running last week.

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In today’s lineup, Taylor Swift has news, Jon Hamm gets animated, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is set.

1. Taylor Swift will release a new album called “Speak Now” on October 25. (AP)

2. Chris Isaak has met with FOX about replacing Simon Cowell. (THR)

3. Jennifer Aniston‘s alleged stalker was arrested before for similar behavior. (TMZ)

4. Jon Hamm will guest on “The Simpsons.” (EW)

5. Release set for U.S. version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Daniel Craig in talks. (Deadline)

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“Oh, no!” cries Perez Hilton. “James Bond 23 has been officially canceled now that MGM is going bankrupt.”

But do not be shaken nor stirred.

A few sentences later, the journalism’s Joker manages to contradict himself, claiming the film starring Daniel Craig “has been postponed indefinitely.”

Well, which is it?

Canceled or postponed?

Clearly Hilton himself has no idea, so allow us to explain…

While it’s true MGM is going through some financial bumps, the next Bond installment has not been canceled.

In fact, nothing has changed at all.

A source close to Craig tells Gossip Cop, “The situation remains exactly the same as for the last many months. The filmmakers formally announced then that the current production of Bond 23 was being postponed due to the issues relating to the sale of MGM.”

“Nothing has changed,” reiterates our rock-solid source, “and production is only postponed, not canceled.”

And that’s why his name is Wrong. Perez Wrong.

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“007 hunk Daniel Craig shared a steamy kiss with a smoking-hot guy in the parking lot of a gay bar,” breathlessly claims the National Enquirer.

According to an unnamed source in the supermarket tabloid, after hanging out at the Venice, Calif., bar Roosterfish, Craig “kissed his friend on the lips. It was an open-mouth passionate French kiss.”

The source tells the Enquirer, “If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it!”

Well, maybe one shouldn’t believe it.

It’s true Craig was at the bar more than a week and a half ago with a few gay friends of his. And it’s true, as the Enquirer noted, when fans came up to him, “He was very gracious and shook hands.”

In fact, he was far from hiding that he was in a gay bar with pals.

But Craig, who’s been dating Satsuki Mitchell for years and has a grown daughter from an earlier marriage, was not making out with any of his male buddies.

What’s interesting, of course, is that it took a full 10 days for this supposed incident to get out, and NO ONE inside the bar claimed to have seen him kissing other guys.

Only one unnamed “source” allegedly saw this in the parking lot — and no one else did.

Perhaps that person’s eyes were clouded from a long night out at a bar.

Gossip Cop investigated, calling the bar as well as a source close to the James Bond star.

A Roosterfish employee said he didn’t know or hear of Craig kissing another man. And the Craig confidante also assured GossipCop the actor was not making out with anyone – male or female – in the parking lot.

Yet another double Oh No for the Enquirer.

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