'Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo' Follow up: 'The Girl Who Performed With Fire' Still on the right track, States The new sony

An interesting factor about 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo': audiences appear to like the film (David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's rape-y novel has gotten a b-grade on Cinemascore), experts and major filmmakers do too, and ticket sales for any nearly three-hour R-ranked thriller throughout the holidays happen to be solid. So far, 'Tattoo' has made over $60 million in the box office, and -- with little competition with the the following month -- should have the ability to hit $100 million locally, plus whatever millions more the film grabs overseas. But! In certain quarters, 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattoo' has been checked out just like a disappointment. Not in in the offices of The new sony, though, where plans are full-steam ahead around the next entry in Larsson's Millenium trilogy, 'The Girl Who Performed With Fire.' "['Dragon Tattoo'] still does strong business and absolutely nothing has transformed regarding growth and development of the following book," an agent for The new sony told EW. "Development continues." Author Steve Zaillian continues to be focusing on the script for 'Fire.' Not sure yet on whether Fincher will return (he's been coy about future 'Dragon Tattoo' participation), but stars Difficulties and Rooney Mara are contracted for that second and third films, whenever they happen. [via EW] [Photo: The new sony] RELATED: 'Dragon Tattoo' star blasts early movie The Very Best Movies of 2011 The Very Best Movies of 201150. 'Breaking Beginning཭. 'Transformers: Dark from the Moonཬ. 'The Tripཫ. 'Warriorཪ. 'Cave of Forgotten Dreamsཀྵ. 'The Iron Ladyཨ. 'We Purchased a Zooཧ. 'Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocolས. 'Horrible Bossesཥ. 'Contagionཤ. 'Winnie the Poohལ. 'Win Winཡ. 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spyར. 'Hannaའ. 'Extremely Noisy and extremely Closeཟ. 'The Interruptersཞ. 'Crazy, Stupid, Loveཝ. 'The Guardཛྷ. 'Captain America: The Very First Avengerཛ. 'The Ides of Marchཚ. 'Beginnersཙ. 'Martha Marcy May Marleneམ. 'A Harmful Methodབྷ. 'The Adventures of Tintinབ. 'Bill Cunningham NYཕ. 'We Have to Discuss Kevinཔ. 'Young Adultན. 'My Week With Marilynདྷ. 'Margin Callད. 'X-Males: Top Classཐ. 'Attack the Blockཏ. 'Shameཎ. 'Super 8ཌྷ. 'Melancholiaཌ. 'The Muppetsཋ. 'Rise from the Planet from the Apesཊ. 'Tree of Existenceཉ. 'Rango཈. 'The Helpཇ. 'Moneyballཆ. ཮/50Ə. 'DriveƎ. 'The Girl Using the Dragon Tattooƍ. 'Harry Potter and also the Deathly Hallows, Part IIƌ. 'Midnight in ParisƋ. 'BridesmaidsƊ. 'The DescendantsƉ. 'War Equineƈ. 'The ArtistƇ. 'Hugo' See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook