Steve Carell howls in Raised By Wolfs comedy

With development and production on the next James Bond film recently halted in the midst of MGM’s endless financial restructuring,Craig needed a new job. The Larsson trilogy provides him with another franchise to nurture. Music Box Films is in the process of releasing the original Swedish-language film adaptations in the United States. Tattoo has grossed $9.6 million in the U.S. and $92 million internationally.

The second film,The Girl Who Played With Fire,has grossed $2.9 million in the U.S. since its release earlier this month. It grossed $51 million internationally. A third movie,The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,is scheduled to be released later this year.

Hollywood goes for more aliens
Hollywood remains under attack from aliens. Paramount Pictures is the latest studio to snatch up an aliens-related pitch,this one to be produced by Michael Bay. Though the plotline is getting the Area 51 silent treatment,the project has been described as Cloverfield meets Paranormal Activity. That would indicate one or more of the characters doing the actual street-level filming.

Bay,in particular,can’t seem to get enough of the sci-fi genre. In addition to filming the third installment of the alien-robots-at-war Transformers franchise for Paramount,Bay is producing the aliens-in-high-school thriller I Am Number Four for DreamWorks Pictures.
That same studio is currently filming Cowboys & Aliens with director Jon Favreau at the helm. Meanwhile,Sony Pictures has its aliens-attack-L.A. action movie Battle: Los Angeles on the books for a March release in the U.S. At the same time,Universal Pictures has the alien-abduction thriller Skyline scheduled for U.S. release in November.