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AP - Bumping into a reporter in a hotel lobby shortly before a scheduled interview, David Fincher doesn't hesitate.

Reuters - The furor over the New Yorker's decision to run a review of David Fincher's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" more than a week before the embargo date heated up on Monday, as the review hit newsstands and an email exchange between critic David Denby and producer Scott Rudin spread around the web.

AP - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross started writing music for the American adaptation of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" months before they'd even seen the script.

AP - The longtime partner of late Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson says he wouldn't have approved of merchandise being linked to this week's release of a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling novel, "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."

AP - Maybe it was inevitable that whoever landed the lead in the original "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" would become Sweden's next big export.

AP - Hollywood has commandeered Sweden's big literary export, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," without compromising the story's Scandinavian roots or its top-of-the-world, Seasonal Affective Disorder sense of barrenness, even hopelessness.

AP - The star of Sweden's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" movie says his daughter appears in the upcoming U.S. remake with the actor who takes on his role in the crime drama: Daniel Craig.

omg! - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - What happened to 007? In "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," the swaggering, lady-killing Daniel Craig is practically a damsel in distress. As investigative reporter Mikael Blomkvist, Craig leaves the gun-slinging and bare-knuckle beating to his sleuthing partner, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). In a pivotal scene, it is Craig who is tied up by a serial killer. The film implies that he would join a long list of victims were it not for a golf club wielded by Salander. Throughout the ordeal, he barely puts up a fight. ...

AP - No matter what language it's in, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" casts a spell over critics.