Jason Mewes, best known as potty-mouthed dope dealer Jay in early View Askew films such as Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy, leads a cast of dudes I’ve never heard of in Spotlight Pictures’ horror-on-the-high-seas thriller The Watermen.
The synopsis reads:
When a group of young, rich friends led by the dynamic Trailor (Mewes) set out for a deep sea fishing trip aboard a million-dollar dreamboat, an electrical fire rocks the ship, destroying their electrical system and engine, leaving them marooned with no communications in the deep Atlantic. Little did they know that their actions disturbed the native folk who despise outsiders.
These watermen are the anomalous sea clan locally known as the “Guineamen” who inhabit the nearby marshy islands. They’re a preternatural and isolated community of fishermen who date back to Cornwallis’ army of 1781. They rarely interact with the outside world and are rumored to have webbed feet. And now the young friends find themselves starring into the salty eyes of these ancient clan men.
A bad situation turns worse when they are drugged and captured by the watermen. They awake horrified and confused; they realize they are trapped on a small island, and their plans for escape turn to plans of attack. It’s a fight for survival as the friends try to escape the remote island and merciless clutches of the watermen. Will they survive?
Mewes, a seriously underrated actor, has starred in David Arquette’s directorial debut The Tripper, John Gulager’s Feast, and the 2007 vampire horror-comedy Netherbeast Incorporated.
The Watermen is written and directed by Matt L. Lockhart.
Now that he knows what the insides of porn star Sasha Grey feel like, director Steven Soderbergh has gotten back to making movies people will actually watch. The Oscar winner’s upcoming viral outbreak thriller Contagion follows the outbreak of a deadly virus and the global aftermath that ensues.
The film’s narrative will reportedly share a similar structure to Soderbergh’s Traffic, presenting various character story arcs that will eventually cross. The all-star cast includes Jude Law (Repo Men), Matt Damon (Hereafter), Kate Winslet (Heavenly Creatures), Marion Cotillard (Inception), Gwyneth Paltrow (Seven), Laurence Fishburne (Predators), comedian Demetri Martin, and Bryan Cranston (“Breaking Bad”).
Contagion has filmed everywhere from Hong Kong to London to San Francisco. Below you have the first set of images from the movie to hit the web:
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Up-and-coming Australian actress Robin McLeavy will make her American film debut in director/producer Timur Bekmambetov’s soon-to-start shooting horror-comedy Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. McLeavy has been cast in the role of Lincoln’s young mother, whose murder at the hands of a vampire sets Lincoln off on his quest for revenge.
Based on author Seth Grahame-Smith’s best-selling novel, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter re-writes history by pitting the 16th U.S. president against an army of vampires in a secret battle set against the backdrop of the Civil War.
McLeavy drew positive reviews for her portrayal of teen sociopath Lola in writer/director Sean Byrne’s award-winning TIFF darling The Loved Ones. The pretty 29-year-old starlet kidnaps and tortures Twilight’sXavier Samual in the abduction-thriller.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter stars Benjamin Walker (Flags of Our Fathers) as Honest Abe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as his wife Mary Todd, Anthony Mackie (Real Steel) as Secretary of State and vampire killer William Seward, and Dominic Cooper (Captain America) as Lincoln’s vamp-killing mentor Henry Sturges.
The film starts shooting in March and is expected to be released in June 2012.
Magnolia Pictures has picked up distribution rights to Danish writer/director Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic thriller Melancholia. Budgeted at a modest $7 million, the film follows a group of people as they freak the fuck out upon discovering that the earth is on a collision course with the planet Melancholia.
Melancholia stars Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg—last seen flashing her balloon-knot in Trier’s Antichrist—as estranged sisters trying to yada yada yada Dunst goes nude and Gainsbourg (pictured above) probably does too.
A creepy teaser trailer for director Darren Lynn Bousman’s (Saw 2-4) hotly anticipated damnation flick 11-11-11 has revealed itself on the net. The film stars Timothy Gibbs (Witchboard 2) as an American novelist haunted by the numbers 11-11 while visiting his brother and terminally ill father in Barcelona.
Peep it:
The premise behind 11-11-11 is rooted in the superstitious belief that celestial guardians use the numbers to warn us about the impending doom-and-gloom heading our way when the 11th gate of Heaven opens for 49 minutes and we, as a people, are too busy snorting coke, fucking whores, and/or watching HBO to care about repenting.
11-11-11 costars Wendy Glenn (“The L-Word”), Michael Landes (Final Destination 2), Ángela Rosal (El Asesino del Parking), and Salomé Jimenez (Una de Zombis).
Killer Films is sinking its teeth into the vampire genre with their big screen adaptation of author Jane Menelsohn’s young adult novel Innocence. Cougar/cub team Julianne Moore (Hannibal) and Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) are attached to star.
Innocence centers on a 14-year-old girl named Beckett (Breslin) who, after the death of her mother, is moved by her father to the Upper West Side of Manhattan to attend a hoity-toity school. The problem? The student body is comprised of vampires.
Breslin, who made her acting debut at the age of five in M. Night Shyamalan’s alien frightener Signs, is coming off Relativity’s monster hit Zombieland. Moore’s recent genre offerings include Chloe, Blindness, and Children of Men. She’ll next be seen in the Weinstein’s upcoming supernatural thriller Shelter.
Esquire magazine continues to deliver quality stroke-material for discerning pervs with its ongoing feature “Women We Love.” Their latest conquest is 29-year-old Texas rose Summer Glau, star of NBC’s “The Cape” and the ill-fated, but still popular, series “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles” and “Firefly.”
You can read a short interview with Glau at the mag’s website, or you can just read about her dressing habits here and proceed to violating yourself :
I pretty much wear cowboy boots and jeans every day. When I moved here, I thought, I’m gonna reinvent my style, but it didn’t stick. I don’t wear anything [in bed]. Nothing belongs in the bed but bodies.
Director David Slade appears to have developed an insatiable thirst for vampire flicks. The man behind Summit Entertainment’s record-breaking tween sensation Twilight: Eclipse and Ghost House Pictures’ much more respectable gorefest 30 Days of Night is now set to shoot The Last Voyage of Demeter. He replaces Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky.
Loosely based on Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” The Last Voyage of Demeter details the horrific events that occurred on the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London. Sir Ben Kingsley and Swedish actress Noomi Rapace are attached to star.
Rapace , who scored rave reviews for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaptations of author Stieg Larsson’s The Millennium Trilogy (“Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Girl Who Played with Fire,” Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest”), has arrived in Hollywood on a gravy train with biscuit wheels. The 31-year-old starlet will next be seen in Guy Ritche’s Sherlock Holmes 2 and Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.
Originally written by Damon Lindelof (“LOST”) as a prequel to Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, Prometheus will star Theron as a character named Vickers. No other plot details are available at this time other than the promise of some “Alien DNA” footage hidden within the film.
Twentieth Century Fox will release Prometheus on June 3, 2012.
Theron, whose horror creds include The Road, Devil’s Advocate, and Monster (for which she won an Oscar), is also developing a new HBO crime drama based on the book Mind Hunter:Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by renowned FBI profiler John Douglas.
