Director Eli Craig flips the script on the hillbilly genre to give us the hilarious and unique horror-comedy Tucker and Dale VS Evil. The film centers on two good-natured country hicks trying to survive the wrath of vacationing college kids who have mistaken them for killers. Tucker and Dale premieres this month at the Sun Dance Film festival, but you can pee your pants watching this clip right here:
Tucker and Dale VS. Evil stars Alan Tudyk (“Firefly”), Tyler Labine (“Reaper”), Katrina Bowden, Chelan Simmons (Final Destination 3, Malibu Shark Attack), Brandon Jay McLaren (Tron: Legacy, “Harper’s Island”), Christie Laing (Scary Movie 4), and Sasha Craig (Dark Wolf). To see a gallery, click here.
Ivan Reitman ain’t afraid of no ghosts. The veteran director is stepping up to helm the long-awaited third chapter in the Ghostbusters series. Writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky have completed and submitted a first draft of the script and are currently working with Reitman on a second.
Reitman told MTV today:
They have delivered a draft. We are working our way through another draft… good work is being done and all of us have our fingers crossed.
Details about the first draft were leaked in December by Ghostbusters alum Sigourney Weaver, who spilled the beans on Bill Murray returning as a ghost among other plot points.
To that, Reitman said:
I’m not going to comment on what’s in the script and on what Sigourney may or may not have said. There’s some very cool things in the new draft, let’s just put it that way. I hope to start shooting in this next year.
The original Ghostbusters was released in 1984 and grossed over $290 million worldwide. Ghostbusters 2 grossed over $215 million worldwide in 1989. Both films were directed by Ivan Reitman and starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, and Sigourney Weaver.
Amanda Seyfried has left Jennifer’s Body behind and is moving on to Julianne Moore’s in the Studio Canal psychological thriller Chloe, a remake of the French film Nathalie. The 24-year-old actress plays a call-girl hired by Moore, 49, to seduce her husband and, consequently, report back on their kinky sexual escapades. Liam Neeson stars as Moore’s husband.
Seyfried—God bless her for not being prudish like Natalie Portman—goes nude for the part, showing off both her tit-tays and tush. She also gets freaky with a very milfy Moore in an emotionally intense lesbian scene.
Chloe is directed by Atom Egoyan and penned by Erin Cressida Wilson, writer of the outrageous and sexually-charged cult classic Secretary. Check out the followin trailer to get a sneak peek at a nude Seyfried:
Coincidentally, this is the film Liam Neeson was working on when his wife Natasha Richardson died after suffering a head injury while skiing in Quebec.
The 57-year-old Irish bastard is having an impressive run of roles opposite hot, young actresses willing to lose their clothes in indie fare. Prior to Chloe, Neeson starred as a creepy mortician out to torment a naked Christina Ricci in Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo’s After.Life.
Chloe is slated for release in early 2010. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group holds the North American rights.
Whether they’re winking at you with their brown-eye while gyrating to Whitesnake or tearfully jerking you off in a dark booth, strippers work hard for their money. They have to. Their unemployed boyfriend’s rent isn’t gonna pay for itself and Vicodin, unfortunately, doesn’t grow on trees.
These are the boobs you're looking for.
Bordello, a burlesque club in downtown Los Angeles, has come up with a crowd-pleasing gimmick designed to separate the socially awkward sci-fi fan from his benjamins: Star Wars Night. Donning costumes inspired by the George Lucas saga, dancers set their guns to stun and work the crowd as if a Rancor monster lurks below the stage.
"Is that a light saber in your pocket or ..."
I’m a huge Star Wars geek. But, after searching my feelings, I find the idea of watching Darth Vader and Boba Fett work the pole while dressed in drag to be a disturbance in the force in my pants. I mean, Princess Leia … yes! Queen Amidala … you bet! Jaina Solo (daughter of Han Solo and Princess Leia in the Star Wars expanded universe) … mos def! Even effeminate protocol droid C-3PO is passable. But, the Sith Lord and the galaxy’s most bad-ass bounty hunter? That’s just a big bowl of frosted wrong (still, it beats out these kinky Trekkies).
Slave 1 for you.
However, if you live in LA and are curious to see what’s under Emperor Palpatine’s robe, you can catch an encore performance of the show on March 13. The event is presented by Devil’s Playground. In the meantime, you can clock in some solo time with the following gallery:
Summit Entertainment aims to start production on the fourth installment of the Twilight Saga this fall in Vancouver. The studio will most likely adapt Breaking Dawn, the final book in Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling vampire series, as two separate films. Actors Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner are once again set to star.
Contrary to web rumors, however, New Moon director Chris Weitz is not attached to direct.
Producer Wyck Godfrey tells the LA Times:
It’s a work in process. The issue [of whether there will be one or two movies] is not going to be resolved until we get the full treatment and see whether it’s organic. If it’s not organic, I don’t think it will be done, and if it is, it will be. It really has to do with how much level of detail from the books there is, with all of these new vampires that appear in ‘Breaking Dawn,’ the whole section about Jacob… It’s a very long single movie if it does become a single movie.
Right now, we’re just focused on the treatment and getting that right. At that point, we’re going to see who’s available and who’s appropriate. It’s such a complicated book because you have the emotions and the intensity of the love story — so you need somebody who’s just a wonderful director of actors — and yet it’s really complicated from an action and visual effects standpoint. They’ve got to have both tools in their kit.
Meyer’s “Breaking Dawn” novel set a first day sales record upon its release in 2008 and went on to dominate the charts for multiple weeks. Reviews for the book from both critics and “Twi-Hards” were mixed.
Eclipse, the third chapter in the Twilight Saga, is directed by David Slade (30 Days of Night) and arrives in theaters on June 30.
James Cameron may have a billion dollar movie in his hands with Avatar, but he could have been king of the fetishists if he had kept a tentacle-heavy sex scene between Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and Jake (Sam Worthington) in the theatrical cut of his sci-fi fantasy adventure. I don’t know if the scene was ever shot (perhaps for a director’s cut on Blu-ray), but you can use your imagination while reading the following excerpt from Cameron’s script, posted online by 20th Century Fox.
EXT. WILLOW GLADE
He puts his face close to hers. She rubs her cheek against his. He kisses her on the mouth. They explore each other.
Then she pulls back, eyes sparkling.
NEYTIRI
Kissing is very good. But we have something better.
She pulls him down until they are kneeling, facing each other on the faintly glowing moss.
Neytiri takes the end of her queue and raises it. Jake does the same, with trembling anticipation. The tendrils at the ends move with a life of their own, straining to be joined.
MACRO SHOT — The tendrils INTERTWINE with gentle undulations.
JAKE rocks with the direct contact between his nervous system and hers. The ultimate intimacy.
They come together into a kiss and sink down on the bed of moss, and ripples of light spread out around them.
THE WILLOWS sway, without wind, and the night is alive with pulsing energy as we DISSOLVE TO —
LATER. She is collapsed across his chest. Spent. He strokes her face tenderly.
JAKE
Neytiri, you know my real body is far away, sleeping.
She raises up, placing her fingertips to his chest —
NEYTIRI This body is real.
(she touches his forehead) This spirit is real.
Her eyes are luminous, honest, infinitely deep.
NEYTIRI
When I was first your teacher, I hated all Sky People. But you have also taught me.
(whispering)
Spirit is all that matters.
She lays her head down, against his chest, listening to his heartbeat.
NEYTIRI
I am with you now, Jake. We are mated for life.
JAKE
We are?
NEYTIRI
Yes. It is our way.
(innocently)
Oh. I forgot to tell?
He rouses up, making her look at him.
JAKE
Really, we are?
NEYTIRI
We are.
JAKE
It’s cool. I’m there.
He lays his head down, and her arms enfold him, sheltering him as he sleeps.
The cast of Warner Bros. Jonah Hex is currently re-shooting 12-pages worth of scenes to punch up the action for what is expected to now be a tent-pole summer release. The studio has brought in I Am Legend director Francis Lawrence to aid Hex director Jimmy Hayward with the re-shoots.
Hex has been plagued with production problems since it was announced, including the departure of original directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank). Actor Josh Brolin, who plays Jonah in the film, also told MTV in a 2008 interview that the film’s script was crap and that he had to wrestle with the idea of taking the role simply to collect on the truck-loads of cash he would earn.
He said:
When I first read it I thought, oh my God it’s awful! And then I had a moment a week later and I thought why is it awful? Maybe the thing to do is to do the most awful movie I can find.
I went back to my gut. Is it a sell out? What is it I like about this movie? … It’s so tongue in cheek. It’s so ridiculous. But once I started putting people in my mind and saying what if I put Malkovich in this role then what does this movie become? Now let’s put this producer and director on it and think about how it plays out. Then it becomes fun. Now I love that movie. If you have a great filmmaker come in then suddenly these gags and characters become interesting.
Personally, I don’t care if the chimp from Dunston Checks In plays Jonah … just as long as Megan Fox is still on board as the hooker.
Megan Fox (Jennifer’s Body) and Mickey Rourke (Sin City) were photographed while shooting scenes for Mitch Glazer’s Passion Play in Albuquerque, New Mexico yesterday. Fox, whose acting talents are routinely under fire by critics and fat, ugly women, proved her commitment to the craft by kissing the 57-year-old human drug.
Passion Play is the story of an angel (Fox) saved from performing as a circus sideshow freak by a downtrodden sax player (Rourke).
Photographers also caught Fox wearing a bathrobe in her trailer. Thankfully, they didn’t catch a glimpse of Rourke in his.
The Passion Play story sounds like it could be interesting, but I can’t say I’m crazy about Fox’s wardrobe on this production. I’m digging her Jonah Hex costume a hell of a lot more. Regardless, enjoy the following gallery:
Ashley Greene, star of The Twilight Saga, recently posed in a painted-on bikini for beverage company Sobe’s new ad campaign (click here to see the pics). The following is a BTS clip of Greene strutting her own juicy goodness on-the-set of the shoot. Enjoy:
At first glance, the clip doesn’t seem all that exciting. But, if you think about the fact that Greene is actually naked while posing with her ass in the air, things get a little hotter. I’m still not forking over cash to see the Twilight flicks though.
IFC Films has snatched up the North American rights to deranged Dutch director Tom Six’s controversial mad-doctor film The Human Centipede. Newbie actresses (of course) Ashlynn Yennie and Ashley C. Williams star as American tourists abducted by an evil German scientist hell-bent on creating a human centipede by sewing people together mouth-to-anus.
Ashlynn Yennie described her role to the foreign press as:
It was a little uncomfortable. …I think the most uncomfortable part was being down on all fours with your mouth, with your mouth…your jaw hurts mostly, because your mouth was open on a bit. But it wasn’t that bad, I’ll be honest. It wasn’t that bad to be on all fours.
It was shocking when I saw it for the first time. It’s funny, when I told my family members about the film they were like “Oh yea, OK,” and then, when they saw pictures from it, they were like “Whoa … that’s totally different than what we thought.” Normally when we told people they were going to sew people together they thought it was going to be shoulder to shoulder, but we’re like “No … ass-to-mouth … it’s great.”
The Human Centipede costars Akihiro Kitamura, Dieter Laser, and Andreas Leupold and has already won awards on the film festival circuit, including Best Picture at the 2009 Scream Fest LA Film Festival and Best Horror Film at the 2009 Fantastic Fest. Six is currently working on a sequel, which will feature a 15 person human centipede.
To see interviews with Six, Yennie, and other cast members, check out the following clip:
IFC will release The Human Centipede simultaneously in theaters (limited run) and VOD later this year. The company has handled North American distribution for acclaimed and edgy films such as Antichrist, Dead Snow, and The Last Winter.
IFC Entertainment’s president, Jonathan Sehring says:
I can’t remember when I have been as excited and had as much fun being horrified and repulsed while watching a movie. Echoing back to the early works of David Cronenberg, ‘The Human Centipede” is a landmark work in the horror genre, taking the “mad doctor” conceit and perversely twisting it into a mind-boggling roller coaster ride. Everyone at IFC is excited to introduce such a unique talent as Tom Six to American audiences and it’s a perfect film for our theatrical and VOD platforms.
I’m not sure if this is the most stupid film I have ever heard of or the most brilliant. Either way, it had me at ass-to-mouth.
