Alison Eastwood, daughter to Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood, is starring in a creepy new indie thriller currently being shopped at Cannes. Directed by some guy named Matthew Arnold, Shadow People follows a CDC doctor (Eastwood) as her research on SUNDS (Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome) leads her to a supernatural conclusion.
The official synopsis reads:
Shadow People is a psychological thriller that explores the rare medical phenomenon known as SUNDS (Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome). Millions of people across the globe have had encounters with what they describe as dark, shadowy creatures that visit them at night.
Sometimes horrifying, sometimes deadly, these nocturnal intruders have been described as early as man’s first recorded writings. But what are they? And what do they want?
Small town radio personality Charlie Crowe (Dallas Roberts) is thrust into the mystery when a strange caller relates a terrifying experience during Crowe’s late night call-in show. At the same time CDC Public Health Agent Sophie Lancombe (Eastwood) is hot on the trail of the cause of the rare medical condition known as SUNDS.
Her investigations entwine her with Charlie’s own discoveries and take them both into a dark world and a decades old cover-up about the phenomenon we now call The Shadow People. Once you open the door to the mystery…you’ll never sleep soundly again.
Personally, I have had those moments when I’m in bed, counting sheep, and suddenly the room seems to go especially dark, as if shadows were caving in on me and I can’t move. I always figured these instances to be mild heart attacks due to my over consumption of booze and burritos. But, maybe, it really is just monsters. Talk about dodging a bullet! Goodbye diet!
ABC has released a clip from their upcoming supernatural adventure-drama “The River.” Produced by Paranormal Activity writer/director Oren “one-trick-pony” Peli and his partners, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider, the shaky-cam series will premiere mid-season this fall.
The show’s synopsis reads:
“The River” follows the story of wildlife expert and TV personality Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood). Emmet set course around the world with his wife, Tess (Leslie Hope), and son, Lincoln (Joe Anderson), while filming what would become one of the most popular shows in television. After he goes missing deep in the Amazon, his family, friends and crew set out on a mysterious and deadly journey to find him.
The pilot episode was directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan, Unknown) from a script by Peli, Michael Perry (Paranormal Activity 2), and veteran scribe Michael Green (“Heroes”), who was brought in to rewrite the original draft.
Gotta admit, this show looks like a lot of fun. Guess I’ll have to keep a puke bucket next to my Lazy Boy.
By Eddie Muertos on May 17th, 2011 at 10:36 am
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IFC Midnight has unleashed a trailer for German director Dennis Gansel’s cheesy-but-fun-looking all-girl vampire flick We Are the Night. The film stars Karoline Herfurth (Perfume: the Story of a Murderer) as a thief turned reluctant bloodsucker after a one-night-stand with a 250-year-old vampire queen.
Peep it:
The film’s synopsis reads:
We Are the Night is an edgy tale of a provocative gang of female vampires living large, making their own rules and leaving a merciless trail of blood.
The film centers on a 20-year-old Berlin native Lena (Herfurth) who gets by as a petty thief. On one of her nightly job runs through an underground club, she meets 250-year-old Louise (Nina Hoss), the owner of the club and leader of an unusual all-female vampire trio – the other two members being wild child Nora (Anna Fischer) and elegant Charlotte (Jennifer Ulrich).
Louise falls head over heels in love with the scruffy Lena and bites her during their first night together. Once bitten, LENA discovers the curse and the blessing of her new, eternal life. She revels in the glamour, parties and infinite freedom, but quickly discovers that the endless blood thirst and murderous appetite of her new girlfriends come at a steep price.
I am definitely taking my penis to see this flick.
We Are the Night will play selected theaters on May 27. It will also be available nationwide On-Demand starting on May 25th.
Emily Browning (pictured above), Juno Temple (The Dark Knight Rises), and Catalina Sandino Moreno (Twilight Saga: Eclipse) are set to star in Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s new indie psych-thriller Magic, Magic.
Set in a remote part of Chile, the film’s story revolves around a girl’s gradual mental breakdown while vacationing with girlfriends too drunk on life to notice. No word on who has the lead, nor what part costar Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)—the first attached to the project—will play.
Browning last starred in Zack Snyder’s girl-power fantasy-actioner Sucker Punch and will next be seen making her nude debut as a student-turned-prostitute in writer/director Julia Leigh’s erotically-charged mind-fuck Sleeping Beauty.
Juno Temple
Temple can currently be seen in the sci-fi comedy Kaboom and dyking it up opposite Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough in the teen lesbian werewolf thriller Jack & Diane. The pretty Brit will next star as teen-prostitute-turned-Catwoman-sidekick Holly Robinson in Chris Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises.
Colombian starlet Moreno, an Oscar nominated actress for her performance in 2004’s drug trafficking drama Maria Full of Grace, is coming off of Summit’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, in which she played Mexican vamp Maria.
Fox has released the first full-length trailer for its upcoming mystery series “Alcatraz.” Produced by J.J. Abrams (“LOST”), the show revolves around a reappearance of inmates who vanished years ago from the infamous prison without explanation.
“Alcatraz” stars Sarah Jones as Det. Rebecca Madsen, Jorge Garcia as Dr. Diego “Doc” Soto, Sam Neill as Emerson Hauser, Parminder Nagra as Lucy Banerjee, Robert Forster as Ray Archer, Santiago Cabrera as Jimmy Dickens, and Jonny Coyne as Warden Edwin James.
Personally, I can’t wait to see this. While I can’t let myself believe that it will rival the amazing story that was “LOST,” I do sense a good mystery coming on. I just wish Hurley had dropped weight for the new show. How shocking would it have been if he had returned to TV all skinny-like? But, I digress.
Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) Tilda Swinton (The Chronicles of Narnia), and Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) have been cast as vampires in art-house director Jim Jarmusch’s (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai) upcoming “crypto-vampire love story.”
No plot details yet, but Jarmusch had this to say to the 12 people who will see the film:
I’ve been imagining this film for years. I can’t wait to now realise it with these remarkable collaborators.
Recorded Picture Company and Pandora Films are flipping the bill. Production is expected to start early next year in Germany, Morocco and Detroit.
Wasikowska, who made her horror debut in the 2007 creature-feature Rogue, is coming off director Cary Fukunaga’s critically acclaimed Jane Eyre. Swinton can be seen as the White Witch in the third Narnia offering The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Sundance Selects has acquired the U.S. rights to writer/director Julia Leigh’s feature film debut Sleeping Beauty. Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) stars as Lucy, a student-turned-prostitute who allows herself to be used while passed out in a drug induced stupor inside what is called a Sleeping Beauty chamber.
Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects, said today:
For the last 5 days, people throughout Cannes have been discussing Sleeping Beauty. We are thrilled to introduce Julia Leigh and her arresting debut to American audiences, and to continuing the discussion.
What Sehring failed to mention is that North American audiences will now get to see Browning in her first nude performance. According to Clatto’s very own international informant, the 22-year-old cutie goes nude throughout most of the film and delivers full-frontal thrills.
Browning began her acting career at the age of eight. While in her teens, she starred in Ghost Ship, Darkness Falls, and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. She scored the lead role in Dreamworks PG-13 thriller The Uninvited in 2009 and led a cast of half-naked babes in director Zach Snyder’s 2011 masterpiece Sucker Punch.
Gemma Arterton (Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) are set to star in Oscar winning director Neil Jordan’s (Interview with the Vampire) new vampire frightener Byzantium. Written by Jane Eyre scribe Moira Buffini, the film details the lives of a mother/daughter bloodsucking team.
I love the horror genre and we’ve been working on this for three or four years. I sent it to Neil and he liked the script.
Woolley and Jordan’s previous collaborations include In the Company of Wolves, The Butcher Boy, In Dreams, and Interview with the Vampire. Jordan also directed last year’s fantasy-romance Ondine, starring sexy Polish actress Alicja Bachleda as a selkie and Colin Farrell as the fisherman who captures her.
Ronan, who played the lead in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, is coming off director Joe Wright’s teen-assassin actioner Hanna and will next star in Inferno Entertainment’s big screen adaptation of author Stephenie Meyer’s (“Twilight Saga”) bestselling novel “The Host.”
Byzantium is budgeted at $11 million and is expected to go into production in October.
Dimension Films and Miramax have tapped filmmakers Casey La Scala and Daniel Farrands to write and direct the recently greenlit sequel The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes. The film will pick up where the original 1979 haunted house thriller left off via found footage dating back to 1976.
The film’s synopsis reads:
An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror … only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.
Dimension Films distributed Platinum Dunes remake of The Amityville Horror in 2005. The film, which starred Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Chloe Moretz, and Rachel Nichols, went on the earn over $109 million in worldwide gross.
The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes is slated for release on Jan. 27, 2012.
British actress Gemma Arterton (Disappearance of Alice Creed) is set to star in director Neil LaBute’s big screen adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder-mystery novel “The Crooked House.” She joins a cast that includes Gabriel Byrne (End of Days), Matthew Goode (Watchmen), and Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music).
LaBute tells Variety:
The story has a couple of fresh sides to it that I didn’t remember from Christie’s work. There’s a love story, which didn’t feature strongly in many of her books, so that seemed very different to me and fresh. Plus it’s quite morally ambiguous, which also appealed to me.
Budgeted at $20 million, The Crooked House is a who-done-it centering on three generations of the Leonides family and the suspicious murder of their multimillionaire patriarch. The clan live together in a huge—and seemingly crooked—mansion.
LaBute, who wrote and directed the delightfully caustic dramas In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, is this time working of a script from The Tourist scribe Julian Fellowes and Tim Rose Price. The film is slated for production in the U.K. this summer.
