Dragon Tattoo claims David Denby.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, producer Scott Rudin has banned David Denby, critic for the New Yorker, from screenings of any of his future movies, due to New Yorker's breaking of the December 13th embargo on reviews of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, helmed by David Fincher.
The review is being published in its new issue, which finds the iPad app and newsstands today.
Rudin wrote this in an email exchange with Denby. (Courtesy of Indiewire.com):
"You've very badly damaged the movie by doing this, and I could not in good conscience invite you to see another movie of mine again."
Ouch! Still, that's what review embargoes are for, to be respected, and as such, there should be consequences. I don't blame Mr. Rudin.
About The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first film in Columbia Pictures’ three-picture adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s literary blockbuster The Millennium Trilogy. The film is based on the first novel in the trilogy, which altogether have sold 50 million copies in 46 countries and become a worldwide phenomenon.
The novels follow journalist-investigator Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (now played by Rooney Mara, originally by Noomi Rapace) who are entwined in life-threatening mysteries as they try to expose institutions that pull the strings behind the scenes.