Tricia Helfer is bloodthirsty femme fatale Alexa Wolff in director Chris Marrs Piliero’s music video for The Black Keys Las Teclas De Negro’s chart-topper “Howlin’ for You.” Shot as a faux movie trailer, the video costars Sean Patrick Flanery, genre stars Diora Baird and Corbin Bernsen, Twilight’sChristian Serratos, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White, and Todd “You’ll never know what I’m talking about” Bridges.
The synopsis reads:
Alexa Wolff, a sexy assassin with a troubled past, unknowingly falls in love with the man who killed her father. He is not her first love, though. Two other men came before. But they would not have her. Now, all grown up with an appetite for revenge, Alexa’s leaving a trail of bloody corpses and broken hearts in her wake.
Peep it:
I’m digging the nod to Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado. Here’s hoping someone runs with this and gets it on the big screen (or DVD/OnDemand).
Ever since she first hitched a ride in Platinum Dunes’ stellar 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, Lauren German has captivated horror fans with her good looks and impressive acting chops. But, despite star turns in Eli Roth’sHostel II, actor-turned-director Thomas Jane’s Dark Country, and ABC’s short-lived mystery series “Happy Town,” the 32-year-old actress’s genre offerings have been few and far between.
This year, however, German returns to horror in French director Xavier Gens’ (Hitman) apocalyptic frightener The Divide. Leading a cast that includes Michael Biehn, Rosanna Arquette and Jennifer Blanc, German plays one of eight survivors battling Hazmat teams and cabin fever while cooped up in a small New York apartment after the majority of the city’s population is wiped out by a mysterious blast.
The Divide will hold its premiere this March at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas.
Amanda Seyfried is set to star in Summit Entertainment’s upcoming serial-killer drama Gone. Seyfried will play a woman who comes home to find that her sister has been kidnapped by the same man who attempted to murder her two years prior.
Gone marks Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia’s (Adrift) American film debut and is written by Allison Burnett (Untraceable). Cameras are expected to roll in April.
Seyfried will next be seen indirector Catherine Hardwicke’s (Twilight) werewolf-romance Red Riding Hood and Andrew Niccol’s (Gattaca) upcoming sci-fi actioner Now. Previous genre creds include the highly underrated Jennifer’s Body and the erotically-charged lesbian thriller Chloe.
Twentieth Century Fox has released the first official trailer for director Mathew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, an origins story built around the relationship between arch enemies Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
The footage is cool, but doesn’t really offer a proper peek at Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and January Jones as Emma Frost. But, if you like guys in funny helmets and bee-outfits, you’ll have no complaints.
Jeepers Creepers director and convicted child molester Victor Salva has cast 37-year-old stunner Rose McGowan as the lead for his first film in five years Rosewood Lane. McGowen will play a TV talk show shrink who upon moving back home finds herself pitted against the paperboy who terrorized her father up until his death.
Explains Salva:
Rosewood Lane has been a pet project of mine for years now and what I have always regarded as one of my most terrifying stories. To see it finally come to life is wonderful.
Hmm. I’m sure the kid whose head Salva fuck-started has got some bone-chilling tales of his own. Considering the director’s past, will you support this flick?
Rosewood Lane was shot in Los Angeles and is now wrapped. Stills from the film have been released and are posted below for your viewing pleasure.
Former Bond girl Rosamund Pike will release the Kraken in your pants next year when she stars in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ Wrath of the Titans, a sequel to their blockbuster remake of the 1981 fantasy adventurer Clash of the Titans.
Pike inherits the role of Princess Andromeda from Alexa Davalos (The Mist), who reportedly will be busy washing her hair while the sequel is shot. In Greek mythology, Andromeda goes on to marry Perseus, the son of Zeus, after he rescues her from Poseidon’s sea monster.
Pike first broke in the States as femme fatale Miranda Frost in the James Bond film Die Another Day. She’s since starred in numerous indies that you’d see with your aunt … because she gives you money for Dibs ice cream balls. The 32-year-old Brit’s only genre creds are Universal Pictures’ Doom adaptation and Jonathan Mostow’s sci-fi actioner Surrogates.
Wrath of the Titans is directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Battle: Los Angeles) and sees original players Sam Worthington (Perseus), Liam Neeson (Zeus), and Gemma Arterton (Io) reprising their roles. The film is slated for release on March 30, 2012.
Sexy Dutch actress Famke Janssen will star opposite Gemma Arterton and Jeremy Renner in Dead Snow director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, a flash forward of the classic fairy tale that finds the siblings hunting down supernatural forces for profit.
Janssen, who made her horror film debut in the 1995 Clive Barker frightener Lord of Illusions and starred as Dr. Jean Grey (AKA: Phoenix) in the X-Men franchise, will reportedly play the leader of an evil coven of witches.
The now 46-year-old former model’s additional horror creds include such notable outings as Don’t Say a Word, The House on Haunted Hill, Hide and Seek, Stephen Sommers’ Deep Rising, and Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is set to roll camera on March 7. Paramount Pictures will release the film in June of next year.
Actress Dina Meyer may be done chasing Jigsaw in Lionsgate’s record-breaking Saw franchise, but the 42-year-old hottie is still playing games in Magnafilms’ psychological thriller Fatal Secrets, available on DVD and On-Demand March 29. The film costars Lela Rochon, Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson, and Marty McFly’s mom Lea Thompson.
The synopsis reads:
An attractive woman (Meyer) enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point. The women underestimate the consequences when they take matters into their own hands as their opponent forces them into a desperate situation, and everyone pays a price.
Meyer, best known for her portrayal of Det. Allison Kerry in Saw 1-4, holds numerous genre creds under her garter belt, including memorable turns in Piranha 3-D, Star Trek: Nemesis, Starship Troopers, DragonHeart, and Johnny Mnemonic.
Fatal Secrets marks the directorial debut of Meir Sharony and is written by producer-turned-writer Kathy Cotter. The film was originally shot in 2009, but looks like a really bad ’80s crime drama. Still, I’d watch Meyer take a dump … a slow sexy dump.
It’ saddens the cock to know that the Sam Raimi-produced gladiator soap “Spartacus: Gods of the Arena” has already reached its midpoint. The six-part prequel series to Starz’ runaway hit “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” has provided the stylized gore, raunchy sleaze, and quotable vulgarities (“Words fall from your mouth like shit from ass”) that “Spartacus” fans have come to love.
Of course, the drama is pretty damn good too. Last week’s episode “Paterfamilias” introduced Batiatus’ (John Hannah) sour-pus father Titus (Jeffrey Thomas), played up gladiator champ Gannicus’ (Dustin Clare) guilt over bedding Oenomaus’ (Peter Mensah) wife Melitta (Marissa Ramirez), and saw Crixus (Manu Bennett) earn the mark of the brotherhood by slaughtering Barca’s (Antonio Te Maioha) butt-buddy in the arena.
But, the show’s most compelling reveal came early when socialite Gaia (Jaime Murray) stripped off her gown to pour wine down her breasts and onto her bush during a three-way romp with Batiatus and Lucretia (Lucy Lawless). Hot as it was, slave girl Diona (Jessica Grace Smith) scored the episode’s most scandalous fuck scene: a simultaneous deflowering of ass and vajayjay via double penetration.
“Spartacus: Gods of the Arena” follows Batiatus and his wife Lucretia as they strive for power and influence over the city of Capua. The show debuted to 1.9 million viewers on Jan 21.
Horror fans first caught a glimpse of Miami-born model-turned-actress Diora Baird’s natural talents in Platinum Dunes’ underrated 2006 prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Since then, the 27-year-old stunner has made must-sees out of 2009’s dreadful horror-comedy Stan Helsing and last year’s DVD originals 30 Days of Night: Dark Days and Night of the Demons.
