'Gone Girl' Kidnapping in CA Wasn't a Hoax, New Evidence Reveals

In March, a Vallejo woman was kidnapped, held for ransom, and then released in Huntington Beach. Her boyfriend, who was with her at the time of the kidnapping, had been drugged and tied up, unable to do anything. Police were sure that the couple had cooked up the kidnapping scheme themselves, but new evidence makes it…
The 'Cool Girl' Is Not Fiction, But a Phase

Recently a friend ran into a woman we all knew in our twenties as a so-called "Cool Girl." She braced herself for the typical performance-art femininity—"dude in a hot girl's body" ready to party with suspicious, irritating gusto—and was startled to find herself speaking to a grownup who seemed pretty together. Down…
Gone Girl’s Biggest Villain Is Marriage Itself
"We resent each other, control each other, cause each other pain." This is the nasty, white-hot core of a toxic relationship. Gone Girl is about many things: revenge, infidelity, the wounds inflicted by bad parenting, the media, an angry wife, her douchebag husband. It is also about a marriage taken to its most…
First Gone Girl Clip: Nick and Amy Flirt, Creepily
We've seen Gone Girl trailers, but this the first snippet of a scene to be released.
New Gone Girl Trailer: Even More 'Ben Affleck Is Confused' Face
After a sort-of artistic first trailer and some other sort-of artistic posters, a new trailer for Gone Girl has been released. I would normally comment here that I have a hard time getting stoked for this movie because of how much I wanted to throw my phone which holds my Kindle app across the room when I finished the…
Check Out These Eerie New Gone Girl Evidence Bag Posters
Yesterday, four new posters for Gone Girl were released and they all feature evidence bags with clues from the film. It's a bit strange because the posters are actually advertising a trailer that's set to come out tomorrow, but as Drew McWeeny at HitFix points out, the July 5 release of the posters is a nod to Nick…
The Creepy-Ass Gone Girl Trailer Is Finally Here
The first full trailer for Gone Girl has finally dropped—not that it shows much, besides Ben Affleck looking maybe-slimy-maybe-misunderstood as Nick Dunne and lots of conflict between characters you'll maybe remember from the book. Throw in a cover of "She" by the Psychedelic Furs' Richard Butler and boom, you've got…
What Is UP With This Gone Girl Magazine Cover?
Entertainment Weekly has an early glimpse at the hotly anticipated Gone Girl, which is scheduled to hit theaters October 3. They even got director David Fincher himself to shoot the cover for the week. And the result is... really something!
Emily Ratajkowski, aka the most pouty-lipped of the pouty-lipped half-naked ladies in Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" video, has been cast as the mistress, Andie, in the movie adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl. Model/actress! As you may recall if you read the book, Andie is Nick's student who writes a…
Rosamund Pike Will Star Opposite Ben Affleck in the Gone Girl Movie
I wasn't the biggest fan of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel Gone Girl, but I did love [SPOILER] [SPOILER] [DON'T LEAVE OUTRAGED COMMENTS SAYING I DIDN'T WARN YOU ABOUT A SPOILER] psychotic "Cool Girl" Amy, and now we know who'll play the coveted role in David Fincher's upcoming movie: British actress Rosamund Pike.
Ben Affleck to Play the Asshole Husband in the Gone Girl Movie
David Fincher — director of Fight Club, Seven, The Social Network — is helming the big-screen adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling novel Gone Girl, and Ben Affleck has just been cast to star as Nick Dunne, the unemployed husband who becomes a suspect in the disappearance of his wife.
Let's Talk About Gone Girl
It's finally time to talk about Gone Girl. Did you love it? Did you hate it? Did it make you reassess your relationship/media crime coverage/moving to Missouri? Did it make you reassess whether you really want to plan that scavenger hunt for your three year anniversary/check out what your significant other is hiding…
Jezebel Book Club 'Gone Girl' Discussion Moved to Next Monday
We're not really in the mood to discuss Gone Girl today and figured many of you might feel the same way — so let's meet at 4 PM EDT next Monday, July 23rd, to discuss instead.
