NEW YORK – ‘Quantum of Solace’ star Daniel Craig has reportedly been tipped for the lead role in the Hollywood adaptation of ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’.

According to TheWrap.com, the film is based on the first novel in the Millennium trilogy by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson, reports the New York Daily News.

It is a crime thriller about a journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, searching for a missing girl with the aid of dragon-tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander.

Adaptations of the three novels, ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’, ‘The Girl Who Played With Fire’, and ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’, have already been made in Larsson’s native Sweden, starring Michael Nyqvist as Blomkvist.

‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ has circulated around the indie circuit for some time in the States.

Brad Pitt was initially reported by various sources to be the top candidate for the Blomkvist role in the English adaptation, which IMDB reports is slated for release in 2012.

But TheWrap.com revealed ‘Dragon’ director David Fincher is more partial to casting the erstwhile 007 as his lead.

Fincher is slated to direct all three adaptations of the trilogy, and he and Craig, 42, are reportedly taking a meeting in Los Angeles within the next few days.

Tim Burton’s blockbuster rendition of the fairytale Alice in Wonderland is arriving on DVD and Blu-rayJune 1st, 2010. In the second of a seven-part interview series, we caught up with the actors and the filmmakers behind the movie to discuss the making of this billion dollar epic. Today we chat withAnne Hathaway, who played the White Queen in the film. Here is our conversation with her:

What did you make of the platinum blonde look and shimmering white gown you have in the film?

Anne Hathaway: I think the look of my character really fits into Tim Burton’s canon, when you look at a lot of his heroines. A lot of them have pale hair and shadowed eyes and dark lips. I think this is the more extreme version of it. She is the White Queen so obviously the color of her hair is informed by that. What I was struck by when I saw the film was that the hair and make-up actually matched what I was trying to do with the character – which was to play her as someone who was good but with a tiny bit of darkness in her. I thought that came out in the lips and the nails. I was so happy that I did not recognize myself.
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People Magazine has unveiled its popular Most Beautiful issue for 2010. Among the list of actors and celebrities are a few stage folk.

Stars on the list who have appeared on Broadway include Three Days of Rain co-stars Julia Roberts (“Eat, Pray, Love”) and Bradley Cooper (“The Hangover”), current Race star Kerry Washington, recent A View from the Bridge actress Scarlet Johansson, Chicago vets Sofia Vergara (“Modern Family”) and Kelly Osbourne (“The Osbournes”), Cyrano de Bergerac muse Jennifer Garner (“Valentine’s Day”) and Festen’s Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife”).

“Beautiful” list honorees also include actors with some stage credits — Anne Hathaway (Twelfth Night), Jessica Biel (Guys and Dolls in Concert) and Ryan Reynolds (Celebrity Autobiography) — as well as movie musical stars Johnny Depp (“Sweeney Todd”), Kate Hudson (“Nine”), Amanda Seyfried (“Mamma Mia!”) and Beyoncé (“Dreamgirls”).

Other names of note to theatre folk include Drew Barrymore (of the famed stage family), “Glee” starlet Dianna Agron and Robin Wright, who will appear in the forthcoming Broadway revival of Talley’s Folly.

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On February 2nd, Anne Hathaway will be one of the actors to announce the Academy Awards nominees.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says the 27-year-old Hathaway will join motion picture academy president Tom Sherak to announce Academy Award nominees on Feb. 2.

Sherak and Hathaway will reveal nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at an early-morning news conference at the academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters.

Hathaway was nominated for an Oscar last year for her leading role in “Rachel Getting Married.” Her other credits include “The Devil Wears Prada” and “The Princess Diaries.”

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