With the weekend's theatrical release of David Fincher's "Gone Girl," Cape Girardeau is getting its share of press. Many reviewers at least mention Cape as the filming location, while some discuss how the scenery fits in with the production design...

Buzz about "Gone Girl" is reaching fever pitch as we approach the film's Oct. 3 premiere. Several movie reviewers have offered their first impressions, which range from "David Fincher in fun mode" to "falls short of Fincher's finest." Read on to see what's being said. More reviews will be added as we find them. (Warning: possible spoilers)...

Rumors have been circulating for some time that the end of "Gone Girl" was changed for the film adaptation. However, it seems those rumors were just that. Journalist Cara Buckley of the New York Times in an excerpt from an interview with Ben Affleck says the film "hews closely to the book."...

"And who are you?" "I'm the guy to save you. ...from all this awesomeness." A new "Gone Girl" trailer was spotted during the Emmys telecast Monday night. The trailer runs one minute, 18 seconds, and shows many scenes from the first trailers, with a few new things thrown in...

Cape Girardeau got a little statewide attention in the September edition of Missouri Business magazine. The magazine touched on several aspects of filming in the Show Me State, but the main feature focused on the filming of "Gone Girl" and its economic effects on Cape Girardeau...

This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly gives the world a slightly less creepy look at the Dunnes. The new cover features a photo from the fictional couple's wedding, the bride looking thrilled, the husband looking kind of stiff and uncomfortable -- and not just because of the tux...

New "Gone Girl" posters debuted Aug. 1, and they carry on the sinister tone of the teaser poster and trailers. The two posters are similar to each other. Both blue-and-gray-toned posters show Ben Affleck standing on the Cape Girardeau riverfront in dim lighting. Rosamund Pike's transparent eyes look out over him above the words "Gone Girl." Both also have an image of the Fox news ticker from the movie's website and some distortion meant to look like a bad signal...

"Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn made the news again recently, this time for her debut novel, "Sharp Objects." According to time.com, "Sharp Objects" is headed for the small screen as a serialized drama thanks to Entertainment One Television. The 2006 novel focuses on a journalist sent back to her hometown in Missouri to report on two murders. Marti Noxon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") has agreed to write the script...

As previously reported, organizers are planning local events surrounding the release of "Gone Girl." With only 70 days left, at least one event is starting to take shape -- but Cape residents' help is needed. The Cape River Heritage Museum is looking for artifacts from old Cape movie theaters for inclusion in an exhibit to coincide with the film's opening Oct. 3...

According to a short Variety.com item tweeted Wednesday evening, "Gone Girl" has been selected as the opening film at this year's New York Film Festival. The festival's opening has become an important stop on the road to awards season, Variety says, adding to the growing Oscar buzz surrounding "Gone Girl."...

As "Gone Girl's" Oct. 3 film debut creeps closer, the anticipation only seems to intensify. Directed by David Fincher, the film, based on Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name, centers around Amy Dunne (Rosamund Pike) and her husband Nick (Ben Affleck). ...

Worried about the much-rumored changed ending of "Gone Girl"? Emma Watts, president of production at 20th Century Fox, says fans have no cause for concern. Watts, who spoke to The Hollywood Reporter for its July 4 issue, said, "[Director David] Fincher just crushed it." The magazine says Watts helped convince Fincher to take on the project...

Possible spoiler alert. If you haven't read the book and want the film to be a surprise, proceed with caution. A lot has been said about the main cast of "Gone Girl." After all, some pretty big names in Hollywood are involved. But there hasn't been much buzz around the film's supporting cast...

Used as part of the set for the filming of "Gone Girl" in Cape Girardeau, The Bar, 117 Themis St., recently started advertising for a restaurant/bar manager. The owner of The Bar remains a mystery. It was sold in January by its previous owner, John Wyman of Merriwether Investments. No one has applied for a business license for the building...

As previously reported, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is composing the score for "Gone Girl." And he recently told Entertainment Weekly he thinks the movie is, in a word, "nasty." Reznor said while the film "has been really fun to work on" and has kept him and songwriting partner Atticus Ross on their toes, it is also much darker than he had expected...

The marketing team for the movie "Gone Girl" has taken an interesting approach to drumming up publicity for the film while still trying to keep an air of suspense. A quick Google search for "Gone Girl" nets results from imdb.com, author Gillian Flynn's website and Amazon.com, among others. But it's not until the bottom of the second page that you come to the film's official site: http://www.findamazingamy.com...

Cape Girardeau gained a little more fame with a mention in Wednesday's USA Today. Reporter Jocelyn McClurg talked to Gillian Flynn about the changed ending of "Gone Girl" and her upcoming collaboration with the film's director, David Fincher...

For those that read Gillian Flynn's novel Gone Girl and didn't feel satisfied by the ending, the film may provide some redemption. Film director David Fincher told Entertainment Weekly that Flynn wrote an entirely new ending for the film...

The building at 117 Themis St. in downtown Cape Girardeau -- most recently known as The Bar from the set of the 20th Century Fox feature film "Gone Girl" -- has been sold, confirmed John Wyman of Merriwether Investments. He said there was quite a bit of interest in the building, including those wishing to lease or own it...

There are some familiar faces on the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly. Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, as their "Gone Girl" characters Nick and Amy Dunne, grace the magazine's 2014 preview issue. Behind the camera for the photo shoot? None other than "Gone Girl" director David Fincher himself...