The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
“Based on the Worldwide Best Seller”
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Studio
Det Danske Filminstitut
Language
sv
Status
Released
How The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo performed
Budget
$13.0M
Worldwide Gross
$109.4M
Gross Profit
$96.4M
Return
8.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Mikael Blomkvist
Michael Nyqvist
Mikael Blomkvist
Lisbeth Salander
Noomi Rapace
Lisbeth Salander
Erika Berger
Lena Endre
Erika Berger
Henrik Vanger
Sven-Bertil Taube
Henrik Vanger
Martin Vanger
Peter Haber
Martin Vanger
Nils Bjurman
Peter Andersson
Nils Bjurman
Cecilia Vanger
Marika Lagercrantz
Cecilia Vanger
Dirch Frode
Ingvar Hirdwall
Dirch Frode
Gustav Morell
Björn Granath
Gustav Morell
Harriet Vanger
Ewa Fröling
Harriet Vanger
Dragan Armanskij
Michalis Koutsogiannakis
Dragan Armanskij
Annika Giannini
Annika Hallin
Annika Giannini
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