Columbia Pictures has released the first official trailer for directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. The sequel once again finds Nicolas Cage battling evil as stunt motorcyclist-turned-supernatural-vigilante Johnny Blaze, AKA Ghost Rider.
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If watching Ghost Rider piss fire isn’t enough to get your interest, here’s the synopsis:
Johnny – still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter – is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe when he is recruited by a secret sect of the church to save a young boy (Fergus Riordan) from the devil (Ciaran Hinds).
At first, Johnny is reluctant to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider, but it is the only way to protect the boy – and possibly rid himself of his curse forever.
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance also stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander), Johnny Whitworth (Limitless) and beautiful Italian actress/pop singer Violante Placido (The American). The film opens in 3-D on Feb. 17, 2012.
Former “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star and Playboy cover model (July, 2000) Charisma Carpenter is set to star in the Syfy original Haunted High. The 40-year-old stunner will play a sexy librarian at a New England private school overrun by demonic forces.
Carpenter joins a cast that includes M.C. Gainey (Mr. Friendly on “LOST”) as the school’s demon headmaster and everyone’s favorite Mexi-can Danny Trejo as its ass-kicking janitor. Marc Donato (“Degrassi: Next Generation”) and Jonathan Baron (Shadow People) costar as students.
Carpenter most recently starred in Jason Bourque’s survival-frightener Crash Siteand Hanelle Culpepper’s psyche-thriller Deadly Sibling Rivalry, in which she plays twins. She is, of course, best known for her role as bratty-babe-turned-vamp-killer Cordelia Chase on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff “Angel.”
Carpenter will reunite with “Buffy” alum James Marsters on the fifth episode of the seventh season of The CW’s “Supernatural,” premiering on Sept. 23. Entitled “Shut Up, Dr. Phil,” the episode finds Carpenter playing a witch scorned by her husband (Marsters).
Haunted High is directed by Jeffrey Lando (Thirst) and is currently being shot in New Orleans.
The Asylum has reeled in Playboy model and “Baywatch” star Carmen Electra to star in their ridiculous new creature-feature 2 Headed Shark Attack, available on DVD Jan. 17, 2012. She joins a cast that includes Jerry O’ Connell’s younger brother Charlie O’Connell (“The Bachelor”) and Hulk Hogan’s handsome son Brooke Hogan (Sand Sharks).
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2 Headed Shark Attack follows the survivors of a Semester at Sea ship that is sunk by a mutant ocean predator. Stranded on an atoll that is quickly flooding, the ship’s students and teachers desperately search for a way to avoid the hungry beast.
Electra’s horror creds are limited to the forgettable ’90s frighteners An American Vampire Story, The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven, and Good Burger. She does, however, steal the show in Dimension Films’ Scary Movie, a parody of Wes Craven’s Scream in which she spoofs Drew Barrymore’s death scene.
“Pretty Little Liar” Torrey DeVitto is set to star in director Olatunde Osunsanmi’s (The 4th Kind) Evidence, a found-footage frightener that follows police as they attempt to put together a portrait of a mass murderer utilizing his victims’ camcorders, flip cams, and smart-phones.
Evidence is currently shooting in Los Angeles and costars Harry Lennix (“Dollhouse”), Dale Dickey (Super 8), Caitlin Stasey (Tomorrow, When the War Began), some Asian kid named Albert Kuo and Nolan Gerard Funk (Deadgirl).
DeVitto, a 27-year-old former fashion model, is best known for her role as Melissa Hastings in the ABC Family teen-mystery soap “Pretty Little Liars.” Her movie creds include Sony Screen Gems home-video thriller I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer and Warner Bros. The Rite.
Sony Screen Gems has released the first trailer for director Len Wiseman’s Underworld: Awakening. From the looks of it, all major plot points are teased: Kate Beckinsale in the nude, Kate Beckinsale in skintight vinyl, Kate Beckinsale kicking ass.
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There is one little storyline missing from the trailer. According to the film’s synopsis, Selene (Beckinsale) awakens from a 12-year coma to discover that she has a 14-year-old daughter. My guess is that, for now, the studio wants to focus on Beckinsale’s return to the franchise and the film’s signature vamps vs. lycans action.
But, don’t fret. I’m sure a second trailer will show Selene taking on the challenges of being a single mom. We’ll watch as she seeks out a second job to supplement her death dealer income, puts werewolf killing on the back-burner to attend her daughter’s soccer games, and has her heart broken every time a guy dumps her because she has a kid … all set to the music of Dido.
Underworld: Awakening arrives in theaters on Jan. 20, 2012.
Rachel Nichols is starring in Summit Entertainment’s I, Alex Cross, a reboot of the Alex Cross franchise first launched by Paramount Pictures in 1997 (Kiss the Girls). Nichols will play a large-breasted detective who gets romantically involved with Cross’ partner Tommy Kane.
She tells ComingSoon:
I’m very excited. I don’t think anyone has ever been as excited as I am about going to Detroit and Cleveland… I get a gun! I’m a detective and I’m happy to get a gun back. No more swords.
It’s based on the Alex Cross series from James Patterson, but it’s not based on the book, ‘I, Alex Cross.’
I, Alex Cross is directed by Rob Cohen (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) and costars Matthew Fox as serial killer Michael “The Butcher of Sligo” Sullivan, John C. McGinley as Police Chief Richard Brookwell, Ed Burns as Det. Tommy Kane, and Tyler Perry as Alex Cross-dresser.
Nichols creds include Platinum Dunes 2005 Amityville Horror remake, Summit Entertainment’s P2 (her first starring role), and Paramount’s G.I. Joe. She also starred as black-ops agent Rachel Gibson on the final season of J.J. Abrams’ “Alias” and played FBI Agent Ashley Seager on the hit CBS series “Criminal Minds.”
Nichols will be seen this weekend in director Marcus Nispel’s eagerly anticipated Conan reboot. She plays a large-breasted warrior monk who gets into what promises to be an intense cat-fight with costar Rose McGowan’s medium-breasted evil witch character.
Actress Jessy Schram will step into the role of Cinderella on ABC Studios’ new fairytale themed series “Once Upon a Time.” The pretty 25-year-old joins a cast that includes Jennifer Morrison as protagonist Emma Swan, Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White, Josh Dallas as Prince Charming, Lana Parilla as the Evil Queen, and Paula Marshall as wicked fairy godmother Malificent.
Created by “LOST” executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, “Once Upon a Time” follows Emma Swan, the likely daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, as she’s beckoned to the small New England town of Storybrooke to help free it from an Evil Queen’s curse. The series is set to premiere on October 23.
Schram’s creds include appearances on TV shows “Veronica Mars,” “Medium,” “Ghost Whisperer,” and “CSI.” She is best known, however, as a regular on TNT’s new Steven Spielberg-produced alien invasion series “Falling Skies.”
Posted here are images of Kate Bosworth from her upcoming thriller Straw Dogs, a Rob Lurie-directed remake of Sam Peckinpah’s controversial 1971 home-invasion drama that starred Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as a married couple terrorized by rape-happy rapscallions in the London countryside.
Bosworth plays Amy Sumner in the redo, a Hollywood actress who moves back South with her scrawny screenwriter husband only to find that her hillbilly ex still has feelings for her vagina. The 28-year-old stunner, rumored to have gone nude, promises that the film is “not watered down in the parts that people are going to be curious about.”
Sony Screen Gems unleashes Straw Dogs on Sept. 16.
An international trailer for Millennium Entertainment’s upcoming serial killer frightener Faces in the Crowd has hit the web. The film stars Milla Jovovich as an elementary school teacher who can’t remember anyone’s face, even those closest to her, after she wakes up from a three day bender of booze and Salsa Verde Dorritos … wait a minute … that was me.
In this movie, Jovovich’s character isn’t a drunk; she suffers from prosopagnosia (face blindness), a neurological disorder caused by a lesion of the temporal lobe, the part of the brain that allows us to remember people’s faces. She acquires this condition after suffering a brain injury while attempting to escape a homicidal maniac.
Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger may not get jiggy with Will Smith in director/producer Barry Sonnenfeld’s upcoming Men in Black 3-D, but she does get to rock some serious hardware in the film’s opener. The gorgeous 33-year-old Hawaiian-born starlet plays a leather-clad vixen with a rocket launcher.
It was amazing. I’ve finished shooting it already. I have a cameo and I open the movie … I actually went to college for theater so it’s nice to be able to utilize some of those chops finally. I really want to get back into a film and acting.
She’s [the character] actually a woman in black and leather—a woman in black leather. In some of the scenes I’m walking with some serious hardcore rocket launcher. It’s crazy. I was playing my music in my head, almost like I was doing a music video.
I had to create a whole other character for this role. In order to do that I had to pull from the rock star inside of me and create this whole diva, like this whole action bad girl kind of character.
Wow, that’s crazy. When I was employed, I also played music in my head and pretended that I was doing a music video. Sadly, the pyro and dancing hookers I brought along didn’t go over too well with the bosses. It’s cool though. I broke my air guitar on their desk before security escorted me out (Rock & Roll!).
Men in Black 3-D finds Will Smith’s Agent J heading back in time to save the universe from an alien threat with the help of a young version of Tommy Lee Jones’ Agent K, portrayed by James Brolin. Sony will release the sequel on May 25th, 2012.
