Impatience.
If there’s a feeling you’re left with after watching David Fincher’s secret 8-minute preview reel for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, that’s it.
Perhaps it’s a symptom of a malnourishing movie summer, but there is palpable hunger for Dec. 21 to arrive and deliver this thriller to the cineplex. So, naturally, when word leaked out that this special, unrated showcase of TGWTDT would be presented before a handful of screenings of Straw Dogs last night, people queued up like it was a Depression Era bread line.
Unfortunately for Straw Dogs, which opens Friday, this clip will not be presented during its regular showings. A tamer “all audiences” preview will show before Moneyball, but it will certainly lack some of the more disturbing imagery presented in this one. Supposedly, this unrated sequence will not be released online, but… who believes that?
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Brad Pitt gives a rare, three-and-a-half hour interview in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, speaking from London where he’s promoting Moneyball and shooting the zombie epic World War Z. He talks about career highs, like meeting Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith: “We had some good workshops beforehand. Had some good laughs and ideas. That was just a great collaboration that turned into a greater collaboration.” He admits the couple may want to rethink their policy of never working at the same time — it helps with child rearing, but also means they can’t make movies together. “We should be doing them together,” Pitt says, in the first in a series called The EW Interview, dedicated to icons reflecting on their careers. “That’s what we should be doing. We should be doing everything together, and then we could work less. We could have more time off.” 
