The first official trailer for writer-turned-director Mitch Glazer’s supernatural romancer Passion Play has hit the net. The film stars Mickey Rourke and Megan Fox in a story about a downtrodden jazz musician determined to rescue a sexy winged creature from a circus sideshow.
Hammer Films have released a teaser trailer for their new supernatural frightener The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe in his first major role since Harry Potter. Based on author Susan Hill’s best-selling novel, the film is directed by James Watkins (Eden Lake) and written by Jane Goldman (Kick Ass).
The Woman in Black follows lawyer Arthur Kipps (Radcliffe) as he arrives in a small U.K. town to settle the estate of an old deceased widow only to find a village held captive by a vengeful ghost. Folks in the U.K. can expect to see the thriller on Feb. 10, 2012. No word yet on a U.S. release date.
IFC Midnight has released new photos from its hookers-in-peril thriller X, starring “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” sexpot Viva Bianca and pretty 20-year-old up-and-comer Hanna Mangan-Lawrence. The film hits selected theaters for a limited run this week, but will be available nationwide on-demand on April 13.
Directed by Jon Hewitt and set in Sydney, Australia, X stars Bianca as a burnt-out prostitute who teams up with a rookie street walker—played by Lawrence—to do one last big trick. Things go terribly wrong and the girls must run for their lives, navigating through the city’s sleazy underbelly.
Bianca is best known for her turn as Commander Legatus Claudius Glaber’s oft-nude wife Iliythia on Starz’s hit swords-and-sandals series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand.” Lawrence has yet to make a name for herself in the States, but her full-frontal nude scene in X just might change that.
It may be awhile before we get to see sexy “30 Rock” star Katrina Bowden strut her stuff in director Eli Craig’s hilarious hillbilly-horror-comedy Tucker and Dale VS. Evil. The film, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, has yet to be released in the States.
Fortunately, the dapper dudes at Esquire have chosen to spotlight Bowden in their new feature “Me in My Place.” I’m no artist, but it appears that the concept behind the shoot was to capture the 22-year-old stunner being totally natural in her home—while modeling a week’s worth of provocative underwear.
Addison Timlin and her magnificent 19-year-old breasts have officially signed on to star in director Stephen Sommers big screen adaptation of horror author Dean Koontz’s bestselling novel “Odd Thomas.” The gorgeous Philadelphia-born actress will play Stormy Llewellyn, girlfriend to protagonist Odd Thomas (Anton Yelchin).
Odd Thomas tells the story of a short-order cook who can speak with the dead and identify evil forces. When a mysterious man arrives in his small California town, Thomas is convinced that doom accompanies the stranger.
Timlin, best known for her topless performances as actress Sasha Bingham on Showtime’s “Californication,” replaces British newcomer Lily Collins in the film and reportedly beat out actresses Emma Roberts (Scream 4), Kat Dennings (Thor), and Portia Doubleday (Youth in Revolt) for the role.
Odd Thomas is budgeted at under $30 million and will go into production this summer in New Mexico.
The first official trailer for Danish director Lars von Trier’s apocalyptic thriller Melancholia has arrived. 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.
Peep it:
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.
Syfy is getting the jump on director Tommy Wirkola’s big screen retelling of the Brothers Grimm’s Hansel & Gretel fairy tale with their own upcoming Saturday night original Gretl, starring “Charmed” and “Beverly Hills 90210” starlet Shannen Doherty in the titular role.
The film’s synopsis reads:
As an adult, a witch hunter returns to the village where he lived as a child to find and kill the witch who killed his sister, Gretl, only to find that Gretl is not dead and danger lurks around every corner.
Gretl is directed by Mario Azzopardi (“The Outer Limits”) and costars Paul McGillion (“Stargate: Atlantis”) as Hansel and genre babes Erica Cox (Repo! The Genetic Opera), Sarain Boylan (Saw IV), Marianthi Evans (Max Payne), and Nahanni Johnstone (Infested). Syfy will air the film in November.
Doherty’s genre creds include Satan’s School for Girls, in which she costarred with “Dexter” babe Julie Benz, the time travel drama Another Day, and the classic dark-comedy Heathers.
DreamWorks has released the first official images from their upcoming Fright Night reboot starring Anton Yelchin (Terminator: Salvation), Colin Farrell (Ondine), David Tennant (“Dr. Who”), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Kick Ass), Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense) and British cutie Imogen Poots (28 Weeks Later).
Originally directed by Tom Holland (Child’s Play), Fright Night’s plot centers around Charley Brewster, a small town horror fan, who is convinced that his new neighbors are vampires. Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) directs the remake from a script by “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” producer/writers Marti Noxon.
“Californication” bad girl Madeline Zima is set to topline writer/director Matt Winn’s British frightener Storage. The 25-year-old starlet will play a woman who learns a terrifying secret when she’s trapped in an underground storage facility with a group of strangers.
Zima broke into Hollywood at the age of six in the 1992 Rebecca De Mornay thriller The Hand That Rocked the Cradle. Since then she has only starred in a couple of horror flicks: the direct-to-DVD thriller Trance and Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton’s gruesome slasher The Collector.
She is best known, however, for her roles as sexy teen plagiarist Mia Lewis on Showtime’s “Californication” and Gretchen Berg, Hayden Panettiere’s bisexual roommate, on NBC’s “Heroes.”
Disney has released a few photos of French starlet Astrid Berges-Frisbey as mermaid Syrena from their upcoming tent-pole release Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. One particularly interesting pic shows Syrena as having legs, suggesting that she may actually be a selkie (unlike mermaids, selkies can shed their tails at will and grow legs to walk among humans).
Frisbey makes her American feature film debut in the Rob Marshall (Chicago) directed sequel that finds Capt. Jack Sparrow searching for the Fountain of Youth. She, along with model-turned-actress Gemma Ward, were chosen to play the film’s sirens after casting agents got wind of their natural breasts talents.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides stars Johnny Depp (Jack Sparrow), Geoffrey Rush (Capt. Barbossa), Keith Richards (Capt. Teague), and new faces Ian McShane (Blackbeard) and Penelope Cruz (Blackbeard’s daughter).
