“Chuck” starlet Yvonne Strahovski will wake the dead in Lakeshore Entertainment’s I, Frankenstein, a futuristic re-imagining of Mary Shelly’s classic novel adapted from Kevin Grevioux’s (“Underworld”) graphic comic.
A sequel of sorts, I, Frankenstein reveals that Victor Frankenstein’s monster (Aaron Eckhart) did not commit suicide, but is instead living in a Gothic metropolis where two immortal clans have been feuding for centuries. Strahovski will play a scientist duped into reanimating the dead by a demon leader (Bill Nighy).
The Stuart Beattie-directed film will shoot this winter in Australia and is slated for release on Feb. 2, 2013.
Strahovski, who is coming off the Jason Statham action vehicle Killer Elite, is best known for her role as CIA agent Sarah Walker on the NBC comedy “Chuck.” Her horror creds include the Australian outback frightener Gone and Magnolia Pictures’ man-vs-wild thriller The Canyon.
Gone is Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia’s (Adrift) American film debut and stars Amanda Seyfried (In Time) as a woman who discovers that the man who abducted her and tried to kill her two years ago has now kidnapped her sister.
Tribeca Film has released a trailer for actor Vincent D’Onofrio’s feature film directorial debut Don’t Go in the Woods, a controversial piece of commentary on why hipster musicians should all have their heads bashed in with big rocks.
Peep it:
The film’s official synopsis reads:
Vincent D’Onofrio explores love, greed and ruthlessness in this twisted musical/horror hybrid, telling the story of a young band who heads to the woods to get away from their everyday lives in order to focus on writing new songs.
Hoping to walk away from the trip with new tunes that will score them their big break, they instead find themselves in the middle of a nightmare beyond comprehension.
D’Onofrio is best known for his acting roles on NBC’s “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” and Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1987 Vietnam War drama Full Metal Jacket. He’s slated to star opposite Julia Ormond in Jennifer Lynch’s upcoming serial killer drama Rabbit.
Don’t Go in the Woods makes its premiere on Dec. 26 on Amazon Watch Instantly, iTunes, Vudu, and cable VOD. It will have a limited theatrical run sometime in January.
Rachel Nichols (Conan the Barbarian) is facing off against stunt-woman-turned-actress Zoe Bell (Death Proof) in Cosmic Toast Studios’ indie survival-frightener Raze: Fight or Die. Details are scarce, but producers describe the film as being a female Fight Club-meets-Hostel hybrid.
A teaser for the flick has been released and it shows Nichols and Bell threatening each other. Now, I’m totally in Nichols’ corner, but Bell is looking pretty butch these days. Something tells me Nichols is in trouble.
What would you do if I told you that Danica McKellar was to star in a Syfy original movie? Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your eyes and I’ll write you a post. I will try not to make it sound as awful as it’ll be.
Danica McKellar, best known for playing Winnie Cooper on the late ’80s dramedy “The Wonder Years,” has signed on to star in Vesuvius Productions’ new creature-feature Tasmanian Devil. Production on the project, which is set to premiere on Syfy sometime next year, is currently underway in British Columbia.
Tasmanian Devil follows a group of base jumpers as they’re hunted down by bear-sized Tasmanian Devils during a visit to a national park (I bet someone’s sorry they didn’t take that left turn at Albuquerque ). The film costars “Jericho” star Kenneth Mitchell and eight-time Winter Olympics medalist Apolo Ohno.
Kelly Brook (Piranha 3-D) has wrapped a guest spot on WE Productions’ new French television series “Metal Hurlant Chronicles.” No word on what role Brook plays in the sci-fi actioner, but production stills show that her character utilizes some pretty big guns.
The series, already greenlit for two seasons—each made up of 12 thirty-minute episodes—will air in Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia next year. Episodes are also being shot in English so American and U.K. versions may soon follow.
Directed by Guillaume Lubrano, “Metal Hurlant Chronicles” stars Rutger Hauer (Hobo with a Shotgun), Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite), Scott Adkins (Universal Soldier: A New Dimension) and James Marsters (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).
The show is a live action adaptation of the 1974 French comic book series “Metal Hurlant Chronicles.” It was adapted as “Heavy Metal Magazine” in the U.S. in 1977, and produced in 1981 as the animated feature Heavy Metal.
Lionsgate has released the first full length trailer for its eagerly anticipated big screen adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ young-adult series Hunger Games. The new clip sets up protagonist Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) plight and provides a glimpse at Panem’s to-the-death competitions. It debuts on the big screen this Friday during showings of Twilight: Breaking Dawn.
We also get a look at Josh Hutcherson as tribute Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Katniss’ District 12 crush Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harrelson as former Hunger Games winner Haymitch, Wes Bentley as Game maker Seneca Crane, Donald Sutherland as president of Panem, and Elizabeth Banks as your grandma.
Aussie up-and-comer Sharni Vinson is set to star in director Mark Hartley’s (Machete Maidens Unleashed) remake of renowned genre filmmaker Richard Franklin’s (Psycho 2, Cloak & Dagger) 1978 Australian frightener Patrick.
Patrick is the story of a man who falls into a comatose state after murdering his mother and her lover three years prior. When a beautiful nurse (Vinson) is assigned to his care, he uses psychokinetic powers to communicate with her and to destroy those who get in the way of his new found obsession.
Vinson is coming off Adam Wingard’s (A Horrible Place to Die) surprise Toronto Film Festival darling You’re Next, a violent home-invasion thriller acquired by Lionsgate to launch a franchise similar to Saw, and Russell Mulcahy and Kimble Rendall’s upcoming shark flick Bait 3-D.
Her most frightening movie to date remains Step Up 3-D.
If you thought acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky was on drugs when he made Black Swan, The Fountain and Requiem for a Dream, rest assured it probably wasn’t meth. The guy hates that stuff. He hates it so much that he stepped away from his upcoming bible-based epic Noah to shoot four anti-meth PSA videos.
The 30-second PSA’s are for The Meth Project Foundation, an organization dedicated to the prevention of meth use through outreach programs and marketing. I thought to post all four of Aronofsky’s videos, but they were kinda killing my high … so you only get the one with the camel-toe and crank-bugs.
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Snow White and the Huntsman, its Rupert Sanders-directed re-imagining of the classic Snow White fairy tale in which Kristen Stewart plays the soon-to-be fairest-of-them-all as a brooding warrior princess.
The film costars Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman, Sam Claflin as the Prince, British fashion model Liberty Ross and Noah Huntley as Snow White’s mother and father, and Robert Pattinson as Sparkly the dwarf.
Snow White and the Huntsman opens in theaters on June 2, 2012.
