Hub Productions held a huge “Vampire Diaries” convention on Sunday, July 4th in Melbourne, Australia. The event hosted raffles, auctions, and plenty of vendors selling highly coveted show-inspired merch.
For the thousand of fans in attendance, however, the day’s big score came in the form of a meet-&-greet with the series stars Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, and that other guy who isn’t Ian Somerhalder, all of whom skipped out on celebrating the good ole’ U.S. of fucking A to be with their diehard fans from down under.
Along with signing autographs and posing for pictures, the actors shared anecdotes about the show, playfully ribbed each other, and even hinted at upcoming plot developments.
(Update: To see a new “Vampire Diaries” promo trailer showcasing Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore, click here)
“The Vampire Diaries” is writer-producer Kevin Williamson’s (Scream, “Dawson’s Creek”) adaptation of L.J. Smith’s popular novel series of the same name for the CW television network. The show follows high-schooler Elena Gilbert (Dobrev) as she’s courted by two vampire brothers (Somerhalder & that other guy).
If you’re a horror/sci-fi fan in your thirties, you’ll recognize actress Virginia Madsen from a number of genre classics including the 1984 big screen adaptation of Dune, Clive Barker’s 1992 frightener Candyman, Dimension’s 1995 rogue-angel thriller The Prophecy, and last year’s supernatural hit A Haunting in Connecticut.
Madsen is now set to star in director Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) upcoming werewolf-thriller Red Riding Hood, a romantic re-imaging of the Brothers Grimm’s classic fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood.” The 48-year-old milf will play mother to Amanda Seyfried’s character.
Red Riding Hood (formerly entitled The Girl with the Red Riding Hood) is written by Orphan scribe David Leslie Johnson and costars Lukas Haas, Shiloh Fernandez, Julie Christie and Gary Oldman.
The film is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way for Warner Bros and is slated for a March 11, 2011 release.
Madsen's bust out role was in 1983's 'Class'
Madsen’s other notable genre creds include Electric Dreams (1984), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991), The Haunting (1999), and The Number 23 (2007). Your penis (if it’s in its 30’s) will also remember her from the 1983 teen-sex comedy Class, in which she made her major motion picture debut.
Madsen currently stars on ABC’s soon-to-be-canceled TV series “Scoundrels.”
Victoria Secret model-turned-actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was photographed in Los Angeles while on the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers 3. The shots, though not very exciting, do prove that Whiteley has got the talent to fill out a form-fitting mini-dress convincingly, which will make the plot of this toy-based movie all the more realistic.
Whiteley also rocks what appears to be a President Obama apron in some of the shots, suggesting the film is looking to make reparations for last year’s Revenge of the Fallen’s highly controversial blackface Autobots Skid and Mudflaps.
Whiteley replaces Megan Fox as Shai LeBeouf’s love interest in the film. Transformers 3 is slated for release on July 1, 2011.
Erika Christensen stars as a mother out for revenge in Twisted Pictures (Saw) first ever family film The Tortured. The film will have its world premiere at the 11th Annual Film4 Frightfest film festival in London (Aug. 26-30).
Directed by Rob Lieberman (Fire in the Sky), The Tortured stars Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe as a young married couple out to punish the murderer (Bill Moseley) who abducted their son. The movie’s trailer was debuted at last year’s AFM convention in Los Angeles.
The film marks a return to horror for Christensen, who currently stars on NBC’s family drama “Parenthood.” The pretty 27-year-old starlet’s fright credits include the 2005 thriller Flightplan and 2002 teen obsession-thriller Swimfan.
The day I finally overdose on cocaine (or Pixy Stix), I hope the last post I put up on this site is the most interesting, funniest, inspiring, sexiest, informative piece ever. I would hate to be eternally linked to a post about Lucy Lawless’ freakishly big areolas.
That said …
Anchor Bay Entertainment has set an Aug. 24 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray editions of director Michael Feifer’s low-budget thriller Abandoned. The film marks the final performance of late actress Brittany Murphy, who met her unfortunate drug-induced doom last Christmas at the age of 32.
Abandoned stars Murphy as a woman frantically trying to find her boyfriend after he disappears from a hospital during a routine procedure. The film costars Dean Cain (”Lois & Clark”), Kristen Kerr (Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane), and busty straight-to-DVD queen Mimi Rogers (Penny Dreadful).
No word from rental service Redbox on whether they will carry Abandoned at their crime-riddled kiosks locations, but chances are they will considering the box art isn’t quite as disturbing as Murphy’s second-to-last final movie Deadline.
Best know for her role as Lt. Blair Williams in 2009’s Terminator: Salvation, actress/model Moon Bloodgood has never fared too well on TV. The 34-year-old star of NBC’s time-traveling drama “Journeyman” and ABC’s time-altering thriller “Day Break” saw both series rapidly canceled (the latter after airing only six episodes) in ’06 and ’07 respectively.
Regardless, Bloodgood is making her return to television this year as child therapist Anne Glass in the Steven Spielberg produced TNT alien-invasion series “Falling Skies.” The show costars “ER’s” Noah Wyle, Jessy Schram, Drew Roy, The Fourth Kind’s Will Patton and The Last Airbender’s Seychelle Gabriel.
The official synopsis reads:
In FALLING SKIES, Wyle stars as a former college professor who becomes the leader of a group of soldiers and civilians struggling against an occupying alien force. Bloodgood co-stars as Anne Glass, a therapist who works with the surviving children to help them cope with the traumatic situation.
The series also Seychelle Gabriel as Lourdes, an orphaned teenager who helps run the group’s commissary. Will Patton plays a fierce leader of the resistance.
FALLING SKIES is executive-produced by Steven Speilberg along with DreamWorks Television heads Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank and screenwriter Robert Rodat.
Rodat, who earned an Oscar® nomination for his screenplay for Saving Private Ryan, wrote the pilot from an idea he co-conceived with Spielberg. Verheiden and Greg Beeman (Heroes, Smallville) are co-executive producers.
The pilot was directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move, Out of Time).
Bloodgood and Wyle will be part of a “Falling Skies” Q&A panel at Comic-Con on July 23.
TNT released a number of promotional stills from the show. Here you have some of the more interesting shots:
Korean actress Bae Doona plays an inflatable-sex-doll-come-to-life in Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda’s Air Doll, a big screen adaptation of Yoshiie Goda’s manga series “Kuuki Ningyo.”
Set in Tokyo, the story revolves around Nozomi (Doona) the sex doll, her lonely owner Hideo (Itsuji Itao), and Junichi (Arata), the man she falls in love with at the video store where she has taken a job.
Take a peek:
The film features many outrageous moments including a squeaky sex scene between Hideo and Nozomi (with post vaginal clean-up) and probably the best human-on-inflatable-partner blowjob this side of Airplane!
Check it out:
And, suddenly, I’m thinking I may have written off Air Bud a little too hastily.
Doona is best known for her roles in internationally acclaimed Korean director Park Chan-wook’s revenge-thriller Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Bong Joon-ho’s creature-feature The Host, the highest grossing film to date in South Korea’s history.
The 30-year-old starlet has already picked up a Best Actress Award at this year’s Takasaki Film Festival in Japan for her portrayal of Nozomi the Air Doll.
Air Doll opens in the States this weekend in selected cities (check your theater listings like right now!)
Universal has wrangled former “Mad Men” actress Abigail Spencer for director Jon Favreau’s (Iron Man) sci-fi-western Cowboys & Aliens. The 28-year-old brunette will play Alice, a prostitute who helps cure former flame and hero Zeke Jackson (Daniel Craig) of all wickedness.
Set in the mid 19th century, Cowboys & Aliens follows a group of cowboys and Indians on a mission to stop an alien race from enslaving mankind. “LOST” co-creator Damon Lindelof wrote the script with his go-to collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer serve as producers.
“Community” and “Mad Men” star Alison Brie has signed on to star in Wes Craven’s meta-slasher Scream 4, currently filming in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 26-year-old actress will play Sidney Prescott’s (Neve Campbell) “ambitious” new assistant.
Scream 4 marks the start of a new trilogy and is the first entry in the series since 2000. The franchise has earned over $500 million in worldwide coin.
Though his name may be new to many, those who know this young actor’s work understand his extraordinary talents. He has a rare combination of intelligence, wit, and humanity. Mark my words, you will love Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker.
Mark Webb?
::Crickets::
Just joshing! Webb directed the very cute rom-com 500 Days of Summer.
Garfield has starred in director Terry Gilliam’sThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and will next be seen in Mark Romanek’s sci-fi drama Never Let Me Go and David Fincher’s Facebook story The Social Network.
Sony made the announcement today during an international press event in Cancun, Mexico. From the press release:
After a comprehensive worldwide casting search, Andrew Garfield has been chosen to portray Peter Parker when Spider-Man swings back onto the screen in 3D on July 3, 2012. The new film will begin production in early December directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt. Laura Ziskin and Avi Arad will produce the film from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios.
Today’s confirmation culminates what has been one of the most eagerly anticipated casting announcements in recent memory. Bloggers, pop culture speculators, and everyday fans have pored over and analyzed every conceivable online rumor in an attempt to discover the identity of the next actor to play Peter Parker. Garfield will immediately begin preparing for the coveted role.
The Spiderman reboot is an origins film based on Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comics, which finds our web-slinging hero back in high school. The film is budgeted at $80 million and will be released in 3-D on July 3, 2012.
Garfield is reportedly being paid $500,000 to play the beloved web-slinger. That may not seem like a lot of money until you realize that you’re making $13 an hour and will never meet a hot girl who will want to screw you while you wear your Hot Dog on a Stick uniform.
Check out Garfield and Webb at today’s press event:
