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  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    See an Exclusive First Look at the 'Amazing Amy' Art from 'Gone Girl'

    When artist Kirk Van Wormer first spoke with director David Fincher about Gone Girl, the conversation didn’t go quite as he expected. “I have to tell you, the coolest and weirdest thing is to get a phone call from David Fincher saying ‘I’d like you to do some illustrations for my next movie,’ and then to find out that there’s no dead bodies or gore,” says Van Wormer. “I have a background in horror, so I was like, ‘Alright, I’m ready to go, David Fincher!’ And then he wanted cute, adorable chil

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    Here Are All the Big Differences Between 'Gone Girl' the Book and 'Gone Girl' the Movie

    —Amy’s teenage best friend, Hilary Handy, who had to transfer schools when she was accused of stalking Amy and pushing her down a flight of stairs. —Desi Collings’s patrician mother, who looks like Amy and with whom Desi has an unnervingly close relationship. —Rebecca, the young reporter for a crime blog called Whodunnit, who finds Nick drunk in a bar and gets exclusive video of him gushing about Amy.

  • NewsGwynne Watkins

    Ben Affleck Talks About 'Gone Girl' Nude Scene

    One of the best-kept, least essential secrets about Gone Girl is now out in the open: Ben Affleck gets naked. At one point in the film (out Oct. 3), director David Fincher gives audiences a very brief, full-frontal glimpse of his star. MTV’s Josh Horowitz broached the subject with Affleck in a new interview, asking if he’d ever revealed so much of himself onscreen before.

  • NewsKevin Polowy

    7 Things We Learned From David Fincher's Playboy Interview

    David Fincher, the press-shy auteur behind such gems as Se7en, Fight Club and The Social Network, opened up to the magazine about a variety of subjects in the walk up to his latest release, a film adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestseller Gone Girl (which, if our level of anticipation for the crime thriller starring Ben Affleck is any indication, could be another notch on the director’s gem belt). Like Fincher’s movies, his profanity-laced Playboy interview is at turns gut-busting and even stoma

  • NewsMeriah Doty

    About That 'Gone Girl' Ending: A Timeline of Quotes and Explanations

    Director David Fincher caused some consternation back in January when a quote from him implied that his take on the twist-filled story — about a married couple (played by Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike) whose relationship takes a potentially murderous turn — had some third-act developments that deviated from the book.  Flynn, it should be pointed out, also wrote the screenplay. A recent New York Times profile on Ben Affleck  adds to a string of sometimes-conflicting statements made by the direct

  • NewsMeriah Doty

    Why Reese Witherspoon Isn't the 'Gone Girl' and 3 Other Secrets From the Fall Thriller

    In the case of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 hit novel Gone Girl, Reese Witherspoon was the one at the door looking to nab the rights. The movie, due in theaters Oct. 3, stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, and not Witherspoon, who ended up producing. 1. Reese Witherspoon bowed out gracefully.